Hawaiian Rennaissance
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The Hawaiian Renaissance generally applies to the time period of approximately 1971 to 1980, during which there was a resurgence of traditional Kanaka Maoli culture in Hawaiʻi, with a significant divergence from the tourism-based "culture" for which Hawaiʻi was previously known worldwide. Hallmarks of this time period include a return to "grassroots", traditionally-influenced music such as Gabby Pahinui and the Sons of Hawaiʻi, intense land struggles such as that of Kalama Valley, Kahoʻolawe and Waiahole/Waikane, and an ʻopio (young people) ʻs resurgence of traditional practices such as loʻi kalo (taro patch) farming, folk arts, and malama ʻaina (traditional forestry/ land healing and restoration).
It should be notice that the term "Hawaiian Renaissance" is sometimes also applied to the time period immediately following King Kalakauaʻs ascendance to the throne, which marked the public return of traditional arts such as the hula, after Calvinist missionary repression had forces these arts underground for several decades.
