"Hawaii is aloha" — that's how people around the world see it, Arista says. "But commercially, it's been detrimental to our people. It's a form of paradise that is a form of colonialism for us." ...

Outsiders often consider aloha shirts, Hawaiian shirts and resort shirts to be the same things, but they’re not. Authentic Versus Inauthentic. Tory Laitila, Honolulu Museum of Art’s curator of ...

Aloha avoided the change as its logo depicts a Hawaiian warrior and not a Native American warrior. But this didn’t mean it was universally liked by members of the community.

Hawaii’s government introduced the Aloha Spirit law in 1986, an effort inspired by Pilahi Paki, a Maui-born poet and philosopher who spoke of the aloha spirit at a 1970 conference on the islands ...

Members of the Aloha Festivals’ royal court take part in the 2022 Aloha Festivals Floral Parade. They are dressed in cloaks and helmets that were commonly worn by Hawaii’s chiefs.