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With Hawaiian flags and signs in hand, dozens of Hawaiian language advocates rallied in Kaneohe on Saturday for what they ...
Welcome to Group Project, a series on the many ways young people are building and engaging with community. From queer ...
Baker founded the Hawaiian theater department in 2014 to revitalize the native Hawaiian language, which is endangered without many speakers today. For her, ...
The Kauai Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying a suspect involved in a burglary that occurred at the Coconut Marketplace. The City and County of Honolulu is warning the public ...
Today, Pele teaches at a Hawaiian-language K-12 school and Kekoa teaches Hawaiian language and culture at the college they both attended. At home, their family speaks almost exclusively Hawaiian.
Today, there are only an estimated 26,000 Hawaiian language speakers even with some 309,000 people identifying as at least partially Hawaiian, according to the 2021 U.S. census.
In 1896, the Hawaiian language was banned as the medium of instruction in public schools. Check out more news from around Hawaii. It wasn’t until 1987, a span of 91 years when ...
Today, two dozen schools have Hawaiian language immersion programs, and Census data show more than 27,000 people in Hawaii, and 34,000 in the U.S., speak Hawaiian at home.
A resolution celebrating February as Hawaiian Language Month, or Mahina Olelo Hawaii, was introduced by Hawaii’s congressional delegation. The resolution, led by U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz and U.S ...
Today, two dozen schools have Hawaiian language immersion programs, and Census data show more than 27,000 people in Hawaii, and 34,000 in the U.S., speak Hawaiian at home.