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TRADITIONAL DANCING CONNECTS RESEARCHER TO HER
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By Heather Amos <http://aboriginal.ubc.ca/author/thaneb/> on July 17, 2012

Canada

Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla’s emails begin with Aloha and end with
na’u—literally meaning ‘mine’ or equivalent to ‘yours’ in Hawaiian—or
Mahalo—thank you.

“It’s about finding spaces to use the language,” says Galla, who studies
indigenous language revitalization in the Department of Language and
Literacy Education at UBC’s Faculty of Education.

In the city of Hilo, where she worked at the University of Hawai‘i’s Ka
Haka ‘Ula O Ke‘elikōlani College of Hawaiian Language before coming to UBC
in 2011, she saw language being strengthened in a variety of ways. She
would hear children using it in stores. Her first college-wide meeting was
three hours long and conducted entirely in Hawaiian.

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