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Ilihia Gionson tongue,” said William Pila Wilson, Publications editor one of the founders of the ‘Aha Pünana Leo and a professor at Haunani Apoliona, MSW ike the many detractors who Ka Haka ‘Ula O Ke‘elikölani, the Chairperson, Trustee, At-large for years doubted the ability Hawaiian language college at the Tel: 808.594.1886 of the Hawaiian language University of Hawai‘i at Hilo. Fax: 808.594.1875 L Email: [email protected] immersion program to nurture the “America is unique in that it ‘öpio to grow into educated, cultur- ignores other languages,” Forman ally grounded, bi-lingual citizens said. “In some places in the world, Walter M. Heen Vice Chair, Trustee, At-large of the world, the sun relentlessly multilingualism is taken for granted. pounded upon the twelve graduates There’s value in speaking more than Na¯wah¯ı graduates listen to a welcoming speech at Ka ‘Umeke Ka¯‘eo, a Hawaiian im- Tel: 808.594.1854 of Ke Kula ‘o Näwahïokalani‘öpu‘u one language.” Unfortunately for the mersion charter school in Keaukaha. From left are: ‘Aulani Kagawa, ‘Iwalani Ku¯ali‘i- Fax: 808.594.0210 Email: [email protected] as they undertook the Ka‘i Hawaiian language, many parents Kaho‘ohanohano, U‘ilani Lindsey, Alana Gouveia, Ma¯lie Na¯ma¯hoe, Makana Lewis and his dad Ka¯wika Lewis. - Photo: T. Ilihia Gionson Mo‘okü‘auhau, an eleven-mile bought into the “mystique of mono- Rowena Akana genealogy walk and rite of passage lingualism” and chose not to speak Trustee, At-large for graduating students. or teach Hawaiian to their children. the Hawaiian community, the two mates plan on post-high school The dozen Hawai‘i Island stu- The language was forced under- laws banning Hawaiian language pursuits from medical school to Tel: 808.594.1860 Fax: 808.594.0209 dents, along with 32 others at ground for most of the 20th cen- immersion education were amend- animation to journalism. Email: [email protected] Ke Kula Kaiapuni ‘o Änuenue on tury until the widespread spiritual, ed. After 90 years, it was again “It feels awesome to be part of O‘ahu, will make up the tenth class political and cultural revival com- legal to teach through the Hawaiian the tenth class... It’s an honor,” said Donald B. Cataluna of graduates from the Hawaiian monly known as the “Hawaiian language. But just because a Ke‘alohilani Medeiros, a member Trustee, Kaua‘i and Ni‘ihau language immersion program. In Renaissance” began in the 1970s. Hawaiian immersion education of Änuenue’s class. “I’ve been Tel: 808.594.1881 an era when the United Nations But even then younger generations program was legally permitted excitedly waiting for this since Fax: 808.594.0211 estimates that over half of the weren’t speaking the language. By didn’t mean that it would be imple- the third grade.” Medeiros will be Email: [email protected] world’s languages spoken today the early ’80s it was estimated that mented. When it was clear that attending Chaminade University are in danger of extinction, the fewer than 50 children under age the state had no plans of its own studying forensics. Robert K. Lindsey Jr. Hawaiian language revitalization 18 spoke Hawaiian. to establish such a program, the At the end of Näwahï’s gradua- Trustee, Hawai‘i movement has overcome seem- To get children to speak their ‘Aha Pünana Leo proposed a pilot tion week, which included the Ka‘i Tel: 808.594.1855 ingly insurmountable challenges. ancestors’ tongue, and thus ensure program. In 1987, the Board of Mo‘okü‘auhau, a baccalaureate Fax: 808.594.1883 Once upon a time, ka ‘ölelo the continued life of the language, Education approved the program at service at Hilo’s Haili Church and Email: [email protected] Hawai‘i was the primary language a small group of educators founded Waiau Elementary School in Pearl a ceremony at Moku Ola in Hilo of the Kingdom of Hawai‘i. In the the ‘Aha Pünana Leo, an organi- City, O‘ahu and Hilo, Hawai‘i’s Bay, the formal ‘Aha Ho‘omoloa Colette Y. Machado years following the 1893 over- zation dedicated to revitalizing Keaukaha Elementary School. Kïhei ceremony was held at the Trustee, Moloka‘i and La¯na‘i throw, however, the new govern- Hawaiian language-and thereby In May, 1999, six students at school. With the knotting of the Tel: 808.594.1837 ment pushed hard to eradicate Hawaiian culture-through language Ke Kula Kaiapuni o Änuenue kïhei on the students, this phase Fax: 808.594.0212 Hawaiian. In 1896, the Republic immersion preschools. The idea in Palolo, O‘ahu and five at Ke of their educational journeys was Email: [email protected] of Hawai‘i Legislature passed into was to establish preschools where Kula ‘O Näwahïokalani‘öpu‘u in complete. First, though, Nämähoe law Act 57 regarding the pub- young children could interact with Kea‘au, Hawai‘i graduated. These and her 11 classmates proudly Boyd P. Mossman lic education system. Following native speakers, and later go on to eleven students were the first in rose in unison and performed a Trustee, Maui the model of United States pol- Hawaiian language public schools. over a century to earn high school hula that dates back to the pre- Tel: 808.594.1858 icy regarding the use of Native But it turned out that there were diplomas that were taught entirely contact 1700s. It begins: Fax: 808.594.1864 American languages in schools, legal barriers blocking both actions. in their mother tongue. Email: [email protected] that act decreed, “the English lan- “Public school education This year’s total of 64 gradu- ‘Au‘a ‘ia e Kama e kona moku guage shall be the medium and through Hawaiian was still banned ates come from schools spanning ‘O kona moku e Kama e ‘au‘a ‘ia Oz Stender basis of instruction in all public by a descendant of the law that Hawai‘i, from the twelve at Näwahï Trustee, At-large and private schools.” had closed the Hawaiian medium to Ku‘uleihiwahiwa Kanahele, the The prophetic chant warned of a Tel: 808.594.1877 Michael L. Forman, professor schools in 1896,” Wilson said. lone graduate of Ke Kula Ni‘ihau time when Hawaiians would have Fax: 808.594.1853 of linguistics at the University of Despite the laws, the first Pünana o Kekaha on Kaua‘i. to struggle to hold on to their heri- Email: [email protected] Hawai‘i at Mänoa, said that the act Leo preschool opened on Kaua‘i “This is a big accomplishment tage. It implores the next genera- declaring English the one medium in 1984. Similar preschools were for a program that many thought tion to hold fast, not to part with John D.