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
Aloha of examples dating back as far as 1798 and up to 1978 where it was defined as a substitute for "welcome". The modern, common use epitomizes the appropriation of the Hawaiian Language and the cultural dispossession of Native Hawaiians. Lorrin Andrews wrote the first Hawaiian dictionary, called "A dictionary of the Hawaiian language". In it he describes "aloha" as "A word expressing different feelings; love, affection, gratitude, kindness, pity, compassion, grief, the modern common salutation at meeting; parting". Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel Hoyt Elbert's "Hawaiian Dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian" also contains a similar definition. The modern use as a greeting