For other uses, including the football player, see Ohana . Part of Hawaiian culture, ohana means family in an extended sense of the term including both blood-related or extended. It emphasizes that family and friends are bound together and members must cooperate and remember one another. The term is cognate with (and its usage is similar to) the New Zealand M?ori term wh?nau. In Hawaiian, the word is ohana with the leading inverted apostrophe () indicating a glottal stop or ?okina. The root word oh? refers to the root or corm of the kalo, or taro plant (the staple "staff of life" in Hawaii), which Kanaka Maoli consider to be their cosmological ancestor. In contemporary Hawaiian life, an "ohana unit" is a part of a house that may contain a grandparent or may be rented to the general public. Ohana is one of the main themes of Lilo & Stitch ("Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behi

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