Nā Hunahuna ‘Ike Hawai‘i: Hawaiian Insights serves as a comprehensive expansion of the historical records authored by John Papa ‘Ī‘ī. While the 1959 publication Fragments of Hawaiian History by Bishop Press presented an edited and reordered selection of his work, this new volume provides the complete series of "Na Hunahuna o ka Moolelo Hawaii" in its original Hawaiian text alongside new translations of three earlier memorial accounts of Kīnī aʻu, Victoria Kamāmalu, and Mataio Kekūanāoʻa. 

Raised and trained to serve in the royal court, and then positioned in the household of Kamehameha I and then in that of his son and heir, Liholiho, Kamehameha II, ‘Ī‘ī was able to provide an insider’s perspective for those settings on O‘ahu, and on Hawai‘i after Kamehameha I returned to reside there. That insider viewpoint extends through his service to the government in the subsequent reign of Kamehameha III and beyond.

By John Papa ʻĪʻī
Translated by M. Puakea Nogelmeier

Softcover and Hardcover available. 588pp

Published June 2026