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This is a story about a father with a rusty three-prong. A three-prong is a fishing spear. It has three barbs at one end of a shaft and surgical rubber attached to the other end. The surgical rubber is stretched up the shaft of the spear and held in place with a tight grip over the shaft. A quick release of the grip will propel the spear.

‘Auwai are irrigation ditches developed by Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) to enable sustainable, prolific, wetland taro cultivation.

This article contemplates the rights and responsibilities of non-indigenous participants in programmes for indigenous education.

Hawai‘i is the most isolated landmass in the world and thus ancient Native Hawaiians relied on the local resources of the land, sea and sky for their sustenance.

Accounts of the Hawaiian Kingdom (1810–1893) have typically argued that since the “discovery” of 1778, the islands have been progressively colonized—s if the first footfall of Captain James Cook set off a sequence of inevitable events that led to the overthrow of the monarchy in 1893 and annexation by the United States in 1898.

Demonstrating how the language of instruction served a shifting role during the 19th century is the means by which this study achieves its purpose of providing the background for the current conflict surrounding the Hawaiian language immersion movement. The first role the language of instruction served was to help Hawai‘i become a modern nation.

He mea nui ka ‘olelo no‘eau ma ka ho‘ola hou ‘ana i ko kokou ‘olelo aloha a me ka hana, ‘oiai, no ka hapanui o kokou, ‘o ka ‘olelo haole ka mea ‘a‘ai i ka no‘ono‘o kanaka, a i kekahi manawa, ‘o ia ka ‘olelo i honai ‘ia ai kekahi mai ka wo e huli ana ke alo i luna, a ka wo kanaka makua.

King Island, Alaska, has a relatively high place-name density of 45 place names per square
mile. King Island Inupiat elders and community members, with the help of Western scientists
(including a linguist, an anthropologist, an archaeologist and biologists), documented
163 place names over the 3.5 square mile area of King Island (Ugiuvak), Alaska. This is 1.5

The term body-snatcher has enjoyed a renaissance in the media recently, as various Māori
have moved to reclaim their deceased relations. From a Māori perspective, the claiming
of bodies has nothing to do with body-snatching, a term that referred to episodes in the
West. Indeed, Māori may see some laws themselves as instruments that snatch the body,

This paper provides theoretical insights into Aboriginal educational and social transformation
in Canada from an historical perspective. For almost a century, “decolonization” has
been the most effective, and yet most commonly deployed conceptual tool in the
writings on Aboriginal education. As an alternative to the decolonization paradigms,

This paper aims at exploring the issue of whether it is possible to treat translation simply
as a strategy in which semantic equivalence between the source language and the target
language is established, especially in the context of literary translation which involves socio
cultural communication, understanding of register, role relations and attitudinal aspects of

Using focus group methodology, we examined the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota idea of
wicozani (pronounced wee-cho’zah-nee), or “the good way of life”, as it relates to individual
and family life and assert its value in guiding functional adaptations. Additional theoretical