Tuesday, March 05, 2019
Hanakeaka
HowlRound Theatre Commons: Language is a critical piece to indexing identity. A person is often known to be from a particular sector of people by his/her language. Hawaiian—ʻŌlelo Kanaka or ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi—is no different. The onset of proselytism in Hawaiʻi aimed to dismante our traditional ways, including our linguistic independance by stripping away our dialectal differences through the establishment of a single orthograhical system.
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I had my first and only Hawaiian history lesson my eleventh-grade year of high school. Until then, the closest we got was World War II when Japan attacked one of the islands. It was fascinating to learn that we overthrew a queen on the one of the islands to gain control and effectively own the islands that make up Hawaii. This article while it does briefly mention that gives history I didn’t know about specific to the language. Language is particularly interesting to me because it shapes culture and ways of thinking. I wish I was more adept at being able to learn to speak various languages but learning about them in other contexts suffices for now. This article is amazing because it does just that and about a language no one knows or cares about. That is until the take a nice resort vacation on one of the islands. It is a fascinating history and culture and, while this is informative, I wish we learned more about it during our grade school years.
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