VOCAB GROUP: PELE text

1. moʻolelo

   stories

2. mele

   a song; traditional Hawaiian poetry

3. kuleana

   responsibility, rights, duty

4. create

   to make, invent, or establish

5. destroy

   to demolish or wipe out; to ruin something

6. acre

   a unit for measuring area, 43,560 square feet

7. Kahiki

   an ancestral homeland, thought to be the island of the South Pacific

8. suitable

   right for the purpose

9. caldera

   a large crater on top of a volcano

10. ancestor

    a distant relative that someone is descended from

11. ʻaumakua

    an ancestral family guardian that takes on the form of an animal

12. protocol

    rules for behavior, a code of conduct

13. hoʻokupu

    a gift or tribute

14. ʻaumākua

    The word ʻaumākua is the plural form of ʻaumakua