“We are ‘Oiwi and settlers who have benefitted from the Hawaiian renaissance, and still we see so many unfulfilled promises...
"We saw 10-feet-diameter trees, 100 feet tall, dropping like toothpicks."
In gatherings of community, bon dances celebrate Japanese heritage and pass on ancestral traditions.
For residents, there are daily splendors, sometimes spats, and a burgeoning sense of community that naturally blossoms where paths converge.
A photoessay on multiethnic families in Hawaii, plus their thoughts on raising families in an increasingly diverse environment.
One reporter travels across the country to document what happens when indigenous values clash with industrial pursuits.
How did this spiky fruit from South America find its way into our logos, t-shirts, and psyches?