Feb. 27—A resolution celebrating February as Hawaiian Language Month, or Mahina Olelo Hawaii, was introduced by Hawaii's congressional delegation. A resolution celebrating February as Hawaiian ...

For 60 years, the Merrie Monarch Festival has contributed to the reclamation of Hawaiian culture, language and identity.

Waikolohe Stream at Disney's Aulani Resort in Oahu, Hawaii, features a lazy river. The resort is aiding the renaissance of the Hawaiian language.

“I found my identity through speaking the language of my ancestors,” says Tammy Haili‘ōpua Baker, who founded the Hawaiian language theater program.

Kawehi Housman and her mother embrace after her college graduation ceremony at BYU-Hawaii. Housman's mother was one of the first Hawaiian Language Immersion teachers in the state and played a big ...

Hawaiian language activist Larry Kimura led the charge in the 1970s in getting Hawaii's Department of Education to sanction Hawaiian-language immersion schools. The state, however, did not offer any ...

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.

KAILUA-KONA — It wasn’t so long ago that studying the Hawaiian language, ’olelo Hawai’i, wasn’t a widely encouraged undertaking. “They grew up knowing that there was nothing, nothing ...

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 ...

A major hurricane struck the islands of Hawai'i and Maui on August 9, 1871 and wrought widespread destruction from Hilo to Lahaina. A recent study by two scientists, a Hawaiian language expert ...