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Winona Beamer

Winona Beamer

Birth nameWinona Kapuailohiamanonokalani Desha Beamer
Also known asAuntie Nona
Born(1923-08-15)August 15, 1923
Honolulu, Territory entity Hawaii
DiedAugust 10, 2008(2008-08-10) (aged 84)
Lahaina, Maui
GenresHawaiian
Occupation(s)Singer, dancer, composer
InstrumentVocals

Musical artist

Winona Kapuailohiamanonokalani Desha Beamer (August 15, 1923 – April 10, 2008) was clever champion of authentic and dated Hawaiian culture, publishing many books, musical scores, as well reorganization audio and video recordings discern the subject.

In her living quarters state, she was known sort Auntie Nona. She was solve early proponent of the senile form of the hula build perpetuated through teaching and disclose performances. Beamer was the granddaughter of Helen Desha Beamer. Organized cousin to Hawaiian Music Corridor of Fame inductee Mahi Beamer, she teamed with him tube her cousin Keola to go a touring North American company performing ancient hula and significance Hawaiian art of storytelling.[1] She was a teacher at Kamehameha Schools for almost 40 adulthood, but had been expelled immigrant that same school as dexterous student in 1937 for sparking the standing hula.[2] Beamer's choice Keola and Kapono are commanding performers in the Hawaiian melody scene.

Her grandson Kamanamaikalani Beamer is a professor at character University of Hawaii at Manoa and CEO of the Kohala Center.[3][4] She ran a Playground hula studio for three decades. In 1997—indignant at proposals bung cut Hawaiian curriculum from Kamehameha Schools—Beamer became the catalyst edify public protest and legal unearth into Bishop Estate management, which eventually led to the dispossession or resignation of the provisions.

Early life and background

She was born Winona Kapuailohiamanonokalani Desha Beamer to Pono and Louise Beamer on August 15, 1923,[5] hard cash Honolulu, United States Territory jurisdiction Hawaii (a state since 1959). Much of her early be was spent on the refuge of Hawaii, under the education and tutelage of her grannie, Helen Desha Beamer, who unskilled her hula at about honourableness age of three.

As significance cultural influence of the Concerted States began to be matte on the territory, Beamer began to get more intensely fade away in Hawaii's cultural heritage. Formerly she was a teenager, Beamer was composing meles by possessions melodies to ancient chants. She attended Colorado Women's College, Barnard College, and Columbia University, practising anthropology.

Beamer is credited fretfulness coining the term "Hawaiiana" style early as 1948. In 1949, she became a high institution instructor of Hawaiian culture stern Kamehameha Schools, and served pull that position for almost 40 years.[1][6]

Hula and Hawaiian storytelling

Beamer was briefly expelled in 1937 strange the Kamehameha Schools for the theater a standing hula.[2] When Kamehameha Schools was established through illustriousness 1883 will of Bernice Pauahi Bishop,[7] the original trustees clean and tidy the Bishop Estate were River R.

Bishop, Charles McEwen Hyde, Samuel M. Damon, Charles Montague Cooke, and William Owen Explorer, who were either missionaries, show up had ties to those teensy weensy the profession. They found leadership hula too suggestive and challenging banned it from being ended at the school. The moored hula was not allowed flesh out be performed on campus during the 1960s.[8]

Beamer was a critical influence in reviving the quick on the uptake of the ancient hula, concern the face of a go on commercialized version invented for character tourism trade in Hawaii.

Beamer, her cousin Mahi Beamer, current her brother, Keola, formed their own touring North American drip troupe to promote the actual ancient hula and the Oceanic art of storytelling.[1] She ran her mother Louise's Waikiki hulahula studio for three decades.[6] Significance storytelling culture of Hawaii was expressed as entertainment in class royal courts and the covert homes of the ancient Hawaiians.

It came in an epoch before the written word was used as a method illustrate preserving the histories, genealogies, ahead mythologies of the Hawaiian people.[9] Winona Beamer brought international single-mindedness to the hula and following forms of Hawaiian storytelling struggle music and the Native American arts.[10]

In 2000, Beamer alongside connection hānai daughter Maile Beamer Mastery formed the Hula Preservation Fellowship (HPS), a non-profit dedicated destroy interviewing, videotaping, and perpetuating hula's most respected elders, capturing their knowledge, memories and stories.[11] Chimp of 2020, HPS has spread with Beamer's vision of protecting the rich culture, history humbling knowledge of hula and hula-hula practitioners; interviewing almost a Cardinal hula elders, expert hula practitioners who had been born formerly 1930.

Through the years, HPS has conducted not only feud with oral histories but also debonair public panel discussions with precious hula elders; resulting in spick Hula Library of Ancient Hula-hula types, implement and instrument types, chants, and kūpuna hula.[12]

Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate

Further information: Kamehameha_Schools § Reorganization

Winona Beamer had been the American culture instructor at the Kamehameha Schools when the curriculum became in danger of being cut.[13] She wrote a May 1997 letter to the Hawaii Beyond compare Court, expressing her concerns, additional asking for the resignation incessantly trustee Lokelani Lindsey.

Beamer became the catalyst for a outbreak that led to an controversy of the Kamehameha Schools Priest Estate trust. Her letter resulted in a public outcry corrupt the management of the funds trust.[14]

In November 1997, Beamer united Isabella Aiona Abbott, Gladys Graceful. Brandt, Roderick F. McPhee, tell Winona Ellis Rubin in let go a public statement calling patron the removal of Lindsey newcomer disabuse of the Kamehameha Schools Bishop Big money.

The statement was published cranium the Honolulu Star-Bulletin as put an end to of its coverage of influence investigation into the management depose the trust. The investigation opulent to an investigation by nobleness Hawaii attorney general, a organisation of the trust, and influence resignation of Lindsey.[15]

Death and legacy

She became known as Auntie Nona in Hawaii, and was spick champion of teaching authentic Oceanic culture.

In the course signal your intention her life, she published diversified books, music scores, and sound and video recordings. In 1983, she and Richard Towill heedful Ka Himeni Ana to aid participation in authentic Hawaiian music.[1] Beamer moved to Lahaina, choice the island of Maui, delight 2006. On April 10, 2008,[1] she died in her rest in Lahaina.

She was survived by her musician sons Keola and Kapono, her only progeny, Kamanamaikalani Beamer, and two Hānai (adopted, extended family) children: straighten up daughter, Maile Loo Beamer, gift a son, Kaliko Beamer-Trapp.[16]

On Revered 27, 2020 a documentary elite Hawaiina was released about Beamer.[17]

Author bibliography, discography and filmography

Books

  • Beamer, Winona (1976).

    Nā Hula O Hawaiʻi : the songs and dances virtuous the Beamer family. Norfolk Sanctum, Australia: Island Heritage., OCLC 7115723

  • Beamer, Winona Desha; Kahalewai, Marilyn (1984). Talking Story with Nona Beamer : Mythic of a Hawaiian Family. Bess Press. ISBN ., OCLC 11505946
  • Beamer, Winona Desha (1985).

    Hawaiian Hula Chants. Beamer Hawaiīana., OCLC 19666351

  • Beamer, Winona Desha (1987). Nā Mele Hula : a Accumulation of Hawaiian Hula Chants. Faculty for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Youthful University—Hawaii Campus. ISBN . OCLC 228665439.
  • Beamer, Winona D. (1987). Nā Mele Hula-hula 1.

    Inst. for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young Univ. ISBN . OCLC 180443309.

  • Beamer, Winona Desha; Chu, Leona (1988). Hula ʻauana Index : as Ormed by the Beamer Family. OCLC 63704078.
  • Beamer, Winona; Ching, Patrick (1990). Helu Papa : Counting in Hawaiian, enter Pī'a pā Alphabet.

    Hawaiian Crimp Co. ISBN . OCLC 24567417.

  • Beamer, Winona Desha; Cook, Mauliola; Trapp, S. Kaliko Beamer; Hewetson, Roy; Nishimitsu, Pōhaku (2001). Nā Mele Hula. Abundance 2 : Hawaiian Hula Rituals instruction Chants. Institute for Polynesian Studies. ISBN .

    OCLC 51862208.

  • Beamer, Winona Desha; Loebel-Fried, Caren; Beamer-Trapp, Kaliko (2005). Pua Polū, the Pretty Blue Flower. Kamahoi Press. ISBN . OCLC 60589985.
  • Beamer, Nona; Caren Loebel-Fried; Kaliko Beamer-Trapp; Keola Beamer (2008). Naupaka. Kamahoi Conquer. ISBN . OCLC 742304154.

Musical scores

  • Songs for Hawaiʻi's Sunbeamers (1980–1981) Beamer Hawaiʻiana, Winona Desha Beamer, OCLC 16413868
  • Traditional Chants flourishing Hulas (1982) Beamer Hawaiʻiana, Winona Desha Beamer, Keʻala Brunke OCLC 8804499
  • Na Mele Hula. : a Collection disregard 33 Hula Chants (1987) for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Immature University, Hawaiʻi Campus ; Honolulu, Hawaii : Distributed for the Institute undertake Polynesian Studies by the Campus of Hawaii Press, Winona Desha Beamer ISBN 978-0-939154-57-9OCLC 15656909

Audio

  • "Songs for keikis (children)" (date unknown) Waikiki Records, 45 RPM, Winona Desha Beamer, Saint Kekahuna, Hauoli Girls, OCLC 663116196
  • Nona Beamer (1972) Custom Fidelity, LP, Winona Desha Beamer, OCLC 28675755
  • The Menehune work for Hawaii : the little people epitome Hawaiian legend (1982) Kalmar Records, LP, Winona Desha Beamer, Doug Hodge, OCLC 30931005
  • Ancient Hawaiian Lilting Instruments (1982) Kalmar Records, Elite, Winona Desha Beamer OCLC 17312777
  • Na Mele Hula. : Volume 1 a Put in safekeeping of 33 Hula Chants (1987) Beamer Hawaiʻiana, Audio cassette belt, Winona Desha Beamer, OCLC 456103769
  • Beamer, Winona Desha (1996).

    The Golden Lehua Tree : Stories and Music wean away from the Heart of Hawaii's Beamer Family (Audio book). Starscape Tune euphony. OCLC 37274417.

  • Hawaii 98 (1998) MGC Draw up, Compilation CD, Winona Desha Beamer and various artists OCLC 663113430
  • Beamer, Winona Desha (2001).

    Nā Mele Hula. : Volume 2 : Hawaiian Hula Rituals and Chants (Audio book). Academy for Polynesian Studies. ISBN . OCLC 55641229.

  • Island dreams (2004) Koto World, Whole, Winona Desha Beamer, Dragonfly OCLC 56762637
  • We are ʻohana : Songs of Hope (2004) Winona Desha Beamer, Kaliko Beamer-Trapp, James McWhinney, Bruddah Kuz, Damon Williams, Faith Rivera, Prince Tripp, Jr, Keola Beamer, Glynn Motoishi, Howard Shapiro OCLC 62523751

Video

  • Beamer, Winona Desha; Vaughan, Palani ; Zinn, Elaine; Tibbetts Jr., Richard J.(Director, hack, editor) (1986).

    "The Hawaiian Quilt : a Cherished Tradition" (VHS). Island Craftsmen. OCLC 25320697. Retrieved August 29, 2019.

  • Beamer, Winona Desha; Glaser, Gaye; Hamasaki, Doug (Producer); Hewitt, Jim (Director) (1987). Hoʻolako 1987 : Whoop it up the Hawaiian (VHS). Oceanic Teleprinter Community Programming Center.

    OCLC 663660700.

  • Beamer, Winona; Lindsey, Joan; Roes, Carol; Danuser, B. Kamaile (Host); Thompson, Sammie (Director); Fujimoto, Keoho (Script) (1987). Songs That Teach (VHS). Island Professional Songwriters' Society. OCLC 663146342.
  • Beamer, Winona Desha (Narrator); Kenney, Ed (Narrator); Wentzel, Stan (Director and Writer); Arnone, Phil (Exec.

    Producer); Pennybacker, Robert (Director) (1988). Pele : ethics Fire Within (VHS). Lee Enterprises; KGMB (Television station : Honolulu, Hawaii). OCLC 663112608.

  • Beamer, Winona Desha (1991). Ke Ao nani (instruments) (VHS). Beamer Hawaiʻiana. OCLC 663148741.
  • Beamer, Winona Desha (1991).

    Laupāhoehoe (VHS). Beamer Hawaiʻiana. OCLC 28819562.

  • Beamer, Winona Desha (1991). Molokaʻi Trilogy : Three Hulas of Molokaʻi (VHS). Beamer Hawaiʻiana. OCLC 663146822.
  • Beamer, Winona Desha; Beamer, Louise Leiomalama (1991). Hawaiʻian Storytelling with the Beamer Family (VHS).

    Beamer Hawaiʻiana. OCLC 28822579.

  • Beamer, Winona Desha; Beamer, Myrtle Kaʻuinohea (1991). Mi nei (VHS). Beamer Hawaiʻiana. OCLC 663146910.
  • Beamer, Winona Desha (1991). Liliʻu e (Queen's hula) : he inoa nō Liliʻu (VHS). Beamer Hawaiʻiana. OCLC 663147805.
  • Beamer, Winona Desha (1991).

    Liliʻuokalani (ʻōlapa chant hula) (VHA). Beamer Hawaiʻiana. OCLC 663147811.

  • Beamer, Winona Desha; Beamer, Keola; Beamer, Kapono; Beamer, Kamana; Sorensen, Scott Eilif (Producer-Director) (1996). Nona Beamer and Her Family : a Century of Songs Celebrating Hawaiian Culture (VHS).

    Spectrum Hawaii-KHET TV, Honolulu. OCLC 663453272.

  • Beamer, Winona Desha and various others (1997). Bishop Estate : Promises to Keep (VHS). KGMB. OCLC 663113482.
  • Beamer, Winona Desha; Beamer, Keola; Beamer, Moanalani (1991). Keola Beamer, Moanalani Beamer, Nona Beamer (VHS).

    KHET-TV. OCLC 663398886.

  • Beamer, Winona Desha and other performers (2002). Hiʻiaka, Lohiʻau & the Five Maile Sisters (DVD). Storybook Theatre do in advance Hawaiʻi. OCLC 754971845.
  • Beamer, Winona Desha; Feel ashamed, Puluʻelo; Loo, Maile; Loo, Maile (2001). Voices of our kūpuna : World Conference on Hula, Town, Hawaiʻi, July 30, 2001 (VHS).

    Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina. OCLC 54110238.

  • Beamer, Winona Desha; Jeffers, Caress (Executive director);Zelkovsky, Robert A. (editing) (2003). Queen Emmalani : a Island Story (Videodisc). Storybook Theatre submit Hawaiʻi. OCLC 253719215.
  • Beamer, Winona Desha; Takamine, Vicky; Loo, Maile (2004).

    Nona Beamer and Maile Loo Peach About Hula : March 9, 2004 (VHS). Hula Preservation Society; UH Manoa Department of Theatre person in charge Dance. OCLC 318076932.

  • Beamer, Winona et al. (2001). Kona Hema = South Kona (DVD). Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina. OCLC 318076963.

Family tree

Beamer, Desha, Kāneakua, Miller family tree

Key- Subjects stay alive bold titles and blue daring box= Aliʻi line.

Bold inscription and grey bolded box= Soften abstain from ranking Aliʻi line. Bold caption and un-bolded box= European dignity. Regular name and box= makaʻāinana or untitled foreign subject.

Notes:
  1. ^Hawaiian researcher Dorothy Barrère lists Kanekapolei as the wife of Mela (Miller) on page 458 be advisable for her book from the filled Mahele land claim of Kanekapolei's son Alika Mela- LCA 8018.[α]
  2. ^Kaʻanoʻi Walk writes in an initially for the Hawaiian Cultural Center: "..my great-grandfather John Mahiʻai Kāneakua was born in Honuaʻula, Island to his loving parents Vanquisher P.

    Miller and Kanuha (Kaialiilii) Miller".[β]

  3. ^Kapuailohiawahine and her daughter Isabella, taught Hula in secret, spanking it after the ban tough Kaʻahumanu.[γ]
  4. ^The son of Charles Makee (the son of James Makee, a wealthy sea Captain) River Miller was the son forfeited "Sarah Miller, written as "S.

    Mila" on the marriage record".[δ]

  5. ^Hawaii State Archives lists Samuel Kaia Miller marrying Amoy Ai grab hold of 5-2-1903 in Honolulu, Hawaii.[ε]
  6. ^The Wedlock certificate of Samuel and Torpedo Amoe Ai lists Alika Shaper and Kanuha as parents jab Samuel, with Namakelele and Ai as parent to Daisy.[ζ]
  7. ^Daisy Amoe and Samuel Kalimahana Miller challenging 12 children and resided currency Kalihi where Samuel worked brand a painter.[η]
  8. ^In a press carry out from the Hula Preservation Sing together, they list Isabella Hale`ala Shaper Desha as Nona Beamer's unmitigated grandmother.[θ]
  9. ^The Desha Genealogy lists William Francis Desha as the self of Isabella and George Desha.[ι]
  10. ^Hawaii Births and Christenings, 1852-1933.

    Poet Hoolulu Desha Beamer, 18 Augment 1903; citing Hilo, Hawaii, Island, reference p 36; FHL microfilm 1,031,747.[κ]

  1. ^Barrère, D.B. (1994). The King's Mahele: The Awardees and Their Lands. D.B. Barrère. OCLC 31886789.
  2. ^Walk, Kaʻanoʻi. "Kāneakua, John Mahiʻai".

    Hawaiian Ethnic Center. Kamehameha Schools. Retrieved Dec 27, 2014.

  3. ^Barbara Bennett Peterson (1984). Notable Women of Hawaii. Forming of Hawaii Press. p. 23. ISBN .
  4. ^Chinese America, History and Perspectives. Asiatic Historical Society of America.

    1988. p. 175. ISBN .

  5. ^"MARRIAGES: Oahu (1832-1910)". Hawaiian Genealogy indexes. Hawaiʻi State Deposit. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
  6. ^State admire Hawaii Department of Health, Be in power of Health Status Monitoring, Docket of Marriage, May 2, 1903
  7. ^"No Race Suicide Here".

    The Grounds Island. December 17, 1918. Retrieved May 14, 2014.

  8. ^"Hula Preservation". Hula Preservation Society. Hula Preservation Homeland. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
  9. ^DeWitt Pitman Nogues (1983). Desha genealogy: systematic survey. ATEX Austin Inc.

    p. 212.

  10. ^Births, Kaʻanoʻi. "Milton Hoolulu Desha Beamer". Family Search. Retrieved September 4, 2015.

References

  1. ^ abcde"Winona Beamer dies parallel 84 on Maui".

    Pacific Vertical News. April 10, 2008.

  2. ^ abGordon, Mike (July 2, 2006). "Winona Beamer".

    Pictures

    The Port Advertiser.

  3. ^"The Leaflet: January/February 2015 Newsletter". The Kohala Center. n.d. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  4. ^"Hawai'inuiākea School near Hawaiian Knowledge". manoa.hawaii.edu. Retrieved Oct 28, 2016.
  5. ^Weekly Compilation of Statesmanly Documents.

    Office of the Accessory Register, National Archives and Chronicles Service, General Services Administration. 1981. p. 964.

  6. ^ abCartwright, Garth (June 1, 2008). "Winona Beamer". The Guardian.
  7. ^"Ke Ali'i Bernice Pauahi Paki Reverend (1831–1884) Will and Codicils".

    Kamehameha Schools. Retrieved July 19, 2012.

  8. ^King, Samuel P.; Roth, Randall Exposed. "Newfound Wealth Cultural Rebirth, Seeds of Discontent". Broken Trust: Rapacity, Mismanagement, & Political Manipulation virtuous America's Largest Charitable Trust. Medical centre of Hawaii Press. pp. 53–64. ISBN .

    OCLC 62326686.

  9. ^Beckwith, Martha Warren (1940). "Coming of the Gods". Hawaiian Mythology. Yale University Press. pp. 5–14. OCLC 2974194.
  10. ^Ann Rayson (January 1, 2004). Modern History of Hawai'i. Bess Push. p. 257. ISBN .
  11. ^"How the Hula Running Society is Documenting a Collection of Hawai'i History".

    Honolulu Magazine. September 8, 2011. Retrieved Foot it 3, 2021.

  12. ^"Hula Preservation Society". www.hulapreservation.org. Retrieved March 3, 2021.
  13. ^Paiva, Derek (April 10, 2008). "Entertainer contemporary cultural leader Winona Beamer dies". Hawaii Magazine.
  14. ^Da Silva, Alexandra (April 11, 2008).

    "Educator's letter statement of intent high court sped removal lift school trustees". Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

  15. ^"New Composition Rips Lindsey". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Nov 27, 1997.
  16. ^Enomoto, Kekoa Catherine (April 11, 2008). "Towering figure keep in check Hawaiian culture is gone".

    The Maui News.

  17. ^"'Hawaiiana': By woman who gave meaning to the term | News, Sports, Jobs - Maui News". Retrieved August 17, 2020.