NPR NETWORK | APR 11, 2023

Anthony Kalahui is walking around the tarmac at Sea-Tac Airport, where it's loud and fumes from the jet engines linger. But the rain helps clear the air a little. Holding a wooden bowl filled with water, steeped with salt and seaweed, he’s cleansing the area where a plane would eventually park.

BBC NEWS | MAY 16, 2022

National Museums Northern Ireland (NMNI) has held a ceremony to return human remains and other sacred objects to Hawaii. They were returned to representatives from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs at Belfast's Ulster Museum.The museum had recently identified some items stolen from other countries or connected to the slave trade among its collections.

THE NEW YORK TIMES | FEB 10, 2022

A delegation from Hawaii is on a five-city tour to bring human remains home, some of thousands of such remnants in Europe taken from around the world. Edward Halealoha Ayau, a lawyer from Hawaii, remembers a mission his grandmother gave him over 30 years ago: Bring your ancestors home.

SMITHSONIAN MAG | FEB 16, 2022

The Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Berlin houses some 5,500 skulls collected by Austrian anthropologist Felix von Luschan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. On Friday, February 11, the German museum returned 32 skulls from the collection to a Hawaiian delegation.

TE AO MĀORI NEWS | FEB 22, 2022

Earlier this month, representatives of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hui Mālama i nā Kūpuna o Hawai'i nei, ventured to Germany and Austria after what has taken three decades of work to retrieve 58 iwi Kūpuna, ancestral human remains that were stolen from Hawai'i during a time of colonial violence.

YALE DAILY NEWS | OCT 18, 2022

A group of three students led by Professor Hi’ilei Hobart trained for a week and a half to repatriate ancestral remains from the Yale Peabody Collection. The students called on Yale to take a more swift and active approach to repatriating Native remains.

LOS ANGELES TIMES | DEC 28, 2005

The executive director of a native Hawaiian group dedicated to the proper treatment of ancestral remains was jailed Tuesday after he refused to reveal the location of 83 artifacts the group has hidden in caves on the Big Island.

HPR | FEB 28, 2022

The ancestral remains of eight Native Hawaiians have been returned from the Übersee-Museum Bremen in Germany. Eight iwi kūpuna, or ancestral Hawaiian skeletal remains, were returned. Research shows that each set of remains reached the museum by a different route – with the earliest arriving in 1865.

NATIVE NEWS | MAR 11 2022

In order to secure the return of 58 stolen skulls of Native Hawaiian ancestors from museums in Europe last month, an Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) delegation appealed to museum employees’ humanity.

TAIPEI TIMES | DEC 29, 2005

Edward Halealoha Ayau, executive director of Hui Malama I Na Kupuna O Hawaii Nei, was taken into federal custody after refusing Chief US District Judge David's Ezra's order to reveal the exact location of the 83 artifacts borrowed from Bishop Museum.