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A new paper made its appearance yesterday in the Hawaiian language. Continue reading
Spicy! 1887.
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Kaniʻāina android interface, 2019.
I don’t know what the iPhone interface is like for the Kaniʻāina site, but I am liking the Android interface a lot. It is very easy to navigate.
Kaniʻāina Android interface
Ka Leo Hawaii recordings online! 2019.
I usually don’t find myself on Ulukau, because their newspaper interface is not the best, and instead go to Papakilodatabase.com. But now that Ka Leo Hawaii audio is finally up online at Kaniʻāina, I will probably be checking it out more.
Kaniʻāina, “Voices of the Land”
At the turn of the 19th century, Hawaiian was the predominant language in Hawai‘i. By 1985, less than a hundred years later, the number of minor age Native speakers of Hawaiian was less than 50 children. The Hawaiian language education movement of the 1970s and 80s were guided by kūpuna mānaleo (native speaking elders) who gave generously with passion and aloha towards the revitalization of the Hawaiian language. Nearly all of those treasured elders have long since passed but their gifts expressed through the language are a rich and valuable resource of Hawaiian knowledge, language, culture, history, place, arts and science…
[Click the image below to be taken to the site.]
Kaniʻāina
Ka Leo Hawaii, 1972 / 2016.
It is here! 2019.
A labor of love
When Larry Kimura and his students first arrived at KCCN in Honolulu with a pitch for a new Hawaiian-language radio show, the station manager had one question.
“Do you have an audience?”
It was 1972. Hawaiian was dying out. Most native speakers were kupuna — and there were not many left. It was still technically illegal to speak Hawaiian in schools. Who was going to listen to a program conducted entirely in Hawaiian?
“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. Continue reading at Hawaii Tribune Herald →
Where are the missing issues?
This is the first page of the first issue of the daily Alakai o Hawaii newspaper available online. It is a paper that ran Mondays through Saturdays. This is already the 8th issue of the 1st Volume. Where are the first seven? And after this, there are only the 12th, 18th, and 52nd issues available (41 missing issues)!
There is an announcement on the second page of the 8/31/1887 issue saying that they are boosting their print run from 600 copies to 800. Hopefully that means more copies possibly can be found. Keep your eyes peeled!
Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Buke 1, Helu 8, Aoao 1. Augate 31, 1887.
American policy, 1924.
BEING RETURNED TO CHINA
[It is hard to get the meaning of something if you can’t read it. Continue reading
Baseball report in English, 1892.
BASE BALL AT LAHAINA.
The Lahaina Club Defeats the Waikapu Boys.
On the 27th of February a game of base ball was played between the Lahaina and Waikapu base ball teams, at which the Waikapu was defeated by its opponent to a score of 18 to 24. Continue reading
Ke Au Okoa, the first issue, 1865.
This is what the digital image of the first page of the first issue of Ke Au Okoa looks like (4/24/1865, p. 1)
Ke Au Okoa, Buke I, Helu 1, Aoao 1. Aperila 24, 1865.
Ke Au Okoa, so many missing issues, 1865–1873.
The Au Okoa which ran from 4/24/1865 to 3/27/1873 was the medium for official announcements of the kingdom, including the proceedings of the legislature, as well as for the publication of new laws. Continue reading
O Ku o Ka o Ku o Ka! 1908.
[Found under: “Ka Moolelo Kaao o Hiiaka-i-ka-Poli-o-Pele”]
At that point she [Wahineomao] turned and headed back. She set her eyes upon her aikane [Hiiaka and Pauopalae]. And then she once again intoned the words which her aikane [Hiiaka] taught her: “O Ku, o Ka, o Ku, o Ka.” Continue reading
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