At a time when local schools are facing shrinking enrollment and talks of closure, Hawaiian immersion programs are bucking ...
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‘We have to fight brain to brain’: The stakes for Hawaiʻi’s history, language preservation
On Jan. 17, 1893, the Hawaiian Kingdom was overthrown in a move that disregarded the rights and sovereignty of Native ...
Hamline University's Center for Global Environmental Education has partnered with a school in Hawaii, Ke Kula Niʻihau o Kekaha, to publish hundreds of books in an indigenous Hawaiian dialect. NINA ...
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How one Minnesota university is helping preserve a Hawaiian dialect from the ‘brink of extinction’
Tia Koerte grew up speaking Olelo Niihau, a dialect specific to the Niihau Hawaiian island, and knew she wanted to help preserve it. Niihau has fewer than 500 native speakers in the world, including ...
A memo has sparked outrage, but is it a misunderstanding?
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