Bernice Akamine (1949–2024) was a Native Hawaiian artist and Hawaiian rights activist born in Honolulu, of kānaka maoli and Japanese American heritage. Her visual art took many forms, including glass and featherwork, and she taught traditional Hawaiian techniques such as making kapa cloth and natural dyeing with Hawaiian plants. An advocate for Indigenous land rights, Akamine used her work to draw attention to the colonial invasion of Hawaiʻi and its continuing effects on the Native Hawaiian population.
