Mānaleo was a public Hawaiian language cable television program from 1996 to 2007 with interviews of approximately 100 Native Hawaiian language speakers produced by Kalani Akana and and the Mānaleo team over an eleven-year period. Hosts included Kalani Akana, Melelani Pang, Hailama Farden, and mānaleo Elizabeth Kauahipaula, Kanoelani McGuire, and Ipo Wong.

The Hawaiian language education movement of the 1970s and 80s were guided by kūpuna mānaleo (native speaking elders) who gave generously with passion and aloha towards the revitalization of the Hawaiian language. Nearly all of those treasured elders have long since passed but their gifts expressed through the language are a rich and valuable resource of Hawaiian knowledge, language, culture, history, place, arts and science.

From June to September of 1970, Kanahele, with the assistance of William Sproat, interviewed twenty individuals whose exceptional knowledge of Hawaiian language, history, and culture would prove valuable to future generations and help to “preserve the Hawaiian language.”