REDSPIRIT WMRC: Native American Heritage Month 2021

Thank you to @red_spirit_wmrc for recognizing MKEA artist, musician, writer, and aloha ‘aina protector and land defender! Repost from @red_spirit_wmrc
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For Native American Heritage Month 2021, REDSPIRIT WMRC will honor an Indigenous woman everyday in November. We celebrate Indigenous People this month but also give praise specifically to some Indigenous women making a difference in the world. Today we'd like to highlight the beautiful, Hāwane Rios. Please take the time to read and share her beautiful story. 💕
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Hāwane Rios is a Mauna Kea Protector and award winning singer/songwriter from Puʻukapu, Waimea on the Island of Hawaiʻi. She was raised from an early age in the traditional art forms of chant and dance of her people which created a strong foundation for her passion of music and songwriting. Rios believes that music is a powerful catalyst for change and is moved to write and sing songs with a healing and unifying message that she hopes will carry on to the generations to come.

Being of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), Chamorro, Taino, Portuguese, and English decent, she feels her lineages, cultural traditions, music, advocacy work, and commitment to aloha ʻāina (love for the land), connects her to the world and to the collective responsibility we have to care for and protect Mother Earth. Rios has stood on the frontlines of the Protect Mauna Kea Movement and alongside her family as a petitioner in the court system in resistance to the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope for the past 10 years. Her outreach work has taken her to many places and has connected her to many different justice movements rooted in standing up and speaking up for the rights of the land and water. She continues to support the efforts of the movement through her educational outreach work with the non-profit organization, Mauna Kea Education and Awareness and through her artistry as a musician, dancer, and chanter.

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