Kimura became an educator and advocate for the Hawaiian language, co-founding ʻAha Pūnana Leo, a nonprofit that opened the first Hawaiian-medium preschools in the 1980s. APAHMPioneers
One of these is “mauli,” which is being used more and more now, and is roughly defined as the spirit of life. If I look out my window right now, I can see lots of plants. All of these plants are different and living, but they’re also all existing together. Mauli isn’t just living, but living in an identifiable, cultural way, and participating in life.
And there is “mana,” which is power, but power you cannot attain unless you work for it. If your pedigree is from the gods, you are born with some form of mana. But for most of humankind, one earns mana through earnest work. Yes; we get to know the children well and stay in touch with their families. We now have 12 preschools throughout the state, and we also now have several generations of what we call the “new native Hawaiian speakers.”
Not only are we regenerating new native speakers, but there is a common case we see where one of these grown children marries a non-Hawaiian speaker, but is adamant that they raise their children speaking Hawaiian, so their spouse ends up becoming fluent themselves.
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