Hawaiian scholar, author, composer, hula expert, and educator born. Known for her meticulous and dedicated work for the preservation of ʻŌlelo Hawai'i, she is particularly remembered for her 1957 Hawaiian Language Dictionary. Raising in the traditional way by her grandmother, Naliʻipoʻaimoku, Pukui spoke ʻŌlelo Hawai'i fluently and began translating while still in her teens. In public school she was hit on the head for speaking her language and punished by only being given bread and water for lunch. She published more than 50 scholarly works and translated many important Hawaiian stories while working for the Bishop Museum for a long career. Her monumental dictionary was a life's work and her linguistic coauthor wrote "She is the expert in Hawaiian. This is her dictionary, a monument to her. My task has been the humble one of technician." Written during a time when the linguicidal law banning Hawaiian language instruction in schools was still enacted, her dictionary helped bridge the divide between the traditional generations and the generations coming of age from the Red Power era to now.

Maroon communities of escaped enslaved peoples existed in Jamaica from the time of Spanish colonialism and control of Jamaica. In particular, the Windward Maroons were majority from west Africa, Akan groups who escaped slavery and intermarried with Taíno, or island Arawak peoples. In 1655, Great Britain took the island of Jamaica during the Anglo-Spanish War. When the Spanish left, they "freed" a large amount of enslaved peoples who greatly boosted the existing numbers of maroons. These communities led fierce resistance to English colonialism and slavery for many years. The First Maroon War is considered to be from 1728 to 1740, and Nanny of the Maroons was one leader of the windward maroons, now honored as the only female National Hero of Jamaica. They led many slave rebellions and raids on plantations. Nanny was highly successful at organizing plans to free slaves. During a period of 30 years, she was credited with freeing more than 1000 slaves, and helping them to resettle in the Maroon community. Their tactics were guerilla warfare. The maroon soldiers were so proficient at disguising their location that the British would circulate tales of trees in the forest becoming alive and cutting one's head off. The treaty in 1740 granted Nanny and her followers 500 acres, and they did unfortunately agree to not harbor any further fugitive slaves. This clause would cause a lasting rift between the formerly allied Maroon community and enslaved Black community.