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The seeds for
future harvests lie in the fruit from seasons past.
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Collecting Seeds
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Planting Seeds
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Setting Seeds
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mä · hōʹpĕ \
n [Hawaiian] loc. behind
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learning from the past
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acting in the present
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building for the future
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Honoring
place-based
knowledge and
multiple ways of
knowing through
research and
education.
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Perpetuating
educational and
social practice that
builds equity,
educational opportunity,
and community.
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Advocating
praxis and
policies that advance
equity, justice,
biocultural diversity,
and community
wellbeing.
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research
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praxis
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policy
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Ma Hope Institute (mä · hōʹpĕ) is a
place-based and community-engaged research institute in Western Montana
working to foster and ensure healthy futures for children, youth, and
communities by honoring, perpetuating, and extending placed-based knowledge and
bio-cultural diversity through research, education, youth
development, and social action/advocacy.
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I ka wā ma mua, ka wā ma hope.
(Hawaiian
proverb)
In the time that
is in front, the time that is behind.
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In Hawaiian, the
past is referred to as Ka wā mamua, or “the time
in front or before.” Whereas the
future is Ka wā mahope, or “the time
which comes after or behind.” It is
as if the Hawaiian stands firmly in the present, with his back to the
future, and his eyes fixed upon the past, seeking historical answers for
present-day dilemmas.
Lilikalā Kameʻeleihiwa, 1992
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Places of Hope
Successful
inner-city organizations present themselves in relation to no social
institution or social problem. They
explain themselves simply as “for youth.”
We call them places of hope.
Our research
shows that a variety of neighborhood-based programs work as long as there
is an interaction between the program and its youth that results in those
youth’s treating the program as a personal resource and a bridge to a
hopeful future.
Milbrey McLaughlin, Merita Irby, and Juliet Langman. Urban Sanctuaries:
Neighborhood Organizations in the
Lives and Futures of Inner-City Youth.
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