Living ʻŌlelo Niʻihau in the Diaspora - Ka Wai Ola

Living ʻŌlelo Niʻihau in the Diaspora - Ka Wai Ola

In Kekaha, on the leeward side of Kauaʻi, the students at Ke Kula Niihau o Kekaha don’t just study Hawaiian culture – they live it, speak it, and write it in a version of ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi that thrived uninterrupted throughout the 20th century when elsewhere in the pae ʻāina the Hawaiian language almost became extinct. As the only Hawaiʻi charter school dedicated to ʻōlelo Niʻihau and the Niʻihau way of life, its mission is unlike that of any other…