Baker founded the Hawaiian theater department in 2014 to revitalize the native Hawaiian language, which is endangered without many speakers today. For her, ...

Hawaiian was banned in the state’s schools in 1896. In 1978 it was made an official language, leading to changes in the education system.

Participants rallied to bring back a second Hawaiian language preschool classroom at Pu’ohala Elementary School.

The Hawaiian language, or olelo Hawaii course was symbolically launched Monday, which some cities observed as Indigenous Peoples Day, in tandem with Navajo, at an event at Salt Kakaako.

The Hawaiian language had been banned from school instruction in 1896, after the U.S. government illegally overthrew the Hawaiian government. From then on, in almost all public spaces, ...

Decades later, Hawaiian’s revival is used as a model for other indigenous languages.Kimura, who is known as the “grandfather” of the language, is now a professor at the University of Hawaii ...

When the last Hawaiian queen was overthrown by a coup in 1896, a law was passed that made it illegal to use or teach the Hawaiian language in public schools.That law stayed on the books for 90 ...

The language had been suppressed for decades, with an 1896 law that banned education through Hawaiian widely seen as a pivotal part of the language’s decline.

“But he was kind enough to say, ‘All right,’” Kimura, now 69 and an associate professor of Hawaiian language and culture at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, recalled last week.

The voice was soft and scratchy, as if a bit timid in front of the microphone. "Ae," she said, meaning "yes" in Hawaiian, when asked a question by a male voice."Ae hanau ia wau i Honoma'ele."" ("Yes, ...

In Hawaii today, nearly everyone knows how to speak a few words and phrases of Hawaiian. But the practice of primarily speaking the Hawaiian language from birth nearly died two generations ago.

The voice was soft and scratchy, as if a bit timid in front of the microphone. "Ae," she said, meaning "yes" in Hawaiian, when asked a question by a male voice."Ae hanau ia wau i Honoma'ele."" ("Yes, ...