Aloha Aina Party of Hawaii Aloha Aina Party of Hawaii The Aloha Aina Party is a conservative political party in Hawaii. The main office of the Aloha Aina Party is located in Hilo, Hawaii Island with satellite offices on each island; Maui, Oahu and Kauai. In 2000 the Aloha Aina Party was established by Vickie Holt Takamine as a revival of the Home Rule Party. The party focused on Hawaiian sovereignty and representing Native Hawaiian voices in local politics. In 2016 Desmon Haumea, Pua Ishibashi, and Donald Kaulia worked to obtain enough petitions for the party to appear on the 2016 election ballot. They held
Talofa Talofa Talofa is a salutation or greeting in the Samoan language of the Samoan Islands. "Talofa" echoes in such phrases as "ta'alofa" in Tuvalu, "aloha" in Hawaiian and "aro'a" in Cook Islands Māori. Another Samoan salutation "To life, live long!" properly translated "Ia ola!" also echoes in places such as Aotearoa (New Zealand), where the formal greeting in Māori is Kia ora and in Tahiti (French Polynesia) where it is 'Ia orana. "Talofa" is also the greeting of the island of Lifou (New Caledonia), and of the island state of Tuvalu. The word was brought to Lifou by the Samoan