"None of the historians had ever learned our mother tongue. They had all been content to read what Europeans and Americans had written. But why did scholars, presumably well-trained and thoughtful, neglect our language? Not merely a passageway to knowledge, language is a form of knowing by itself …"

Learn more about

• Native Hawaiians:
  http://www.hawaii-nation.org/
• Hawaiian language and culture:
  http://www.geocities.com/~olelo/home.html