may i please post an announcement for a first nations poetry exchange?
if not, htat is ok
annie
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:33:17 -0700 ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU wrote:
> Ph.D. program helps to preserve Hawaiian language
> 
> © Indian Country Today February 07, 2007. All Rights Reserved
> Posted: February 07, 2007
> by: The Associated Press
> http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096414452
> 
> [AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman<.i> -- Students from the Hawaiian Immersion
> School, Kula Kaiapuni 'O Waiau, performed a hula dance during the 18th
> annual Ho'omau benefit concert at the Waikiki Shell, Feb. 16, 2003, in
> Honolulu. The Hawaiian language and culture's ongoing revitalization is
> evident in the more than 1,000 children, ages 3 to 18, who are currently
> receiving their education in the Hawaiian language within the 10 schools
> located on Oahu and in the University of Hawaii-Hilo's doctor of
> philosophy degree in Hawaiian and indigenous language - the country's
> first doctorate of its kind, according to the school. ]
> 
> HILO, Hawaii (AP) - The students in the University of Hawaii at Hilo's
> first Ph.D. program are working to revitalize the Hawaiian language and
> culture.
> 
> Five students are enrolled in the new program, which was established
> this fall for a doctor of philosophy degree in Hawaiian and indigenous
> language and culture revitalization.
> 
> It's the first doctorate in the United States in a Native language,
> according to the school.
> 
> Hiapo Perreira, who is
> 
> focusing on Hawaiian literature, has tried to spread his knowledge. Last
> May, he told high school seniors the tale of a boy transported to a far
> country by a supernatural coconut tree.
> 
> The story was meant to teach the students that they should also help
> others, just as Perreira plans to do with the aid of his doctorate.
> 
> Kauanoe Kamana, another doctoral candidate, is the principal of
> Nawahiokalaniopuu Hawaiian-language immersion school, Nawahi for short,
> which was founded in 1994.
> 
> Kamana's doctoral dissertation will be a practical guide to the lessons
> she and others have learned in running Nawahi.
> 
> ''We're not an ivory tower Ph.D. We're a community service Ph.D.,'' said
> UH-Hilo Hawaiian professor Pila Wilson.
> 
> There are 15,000 people who can speak Hawaiian reasonably well, but only
> about 100 remaining elders who grew up speaking it, Wilson said.
> 
> The goal is to make English the language of business and work, and
> Hawaiian the language of the home for Hawaiian families, Wilson said.
> 
> ''The Hawaiian language is not going to live if you are below average
> when you speak,'' he said.
> 
> Strengthening Hawaiian has the broad value of strengthening Hawaiian
> families and strengthening the economy, because Hawaiian culture is a
> major reason when tourists come here, he said.
> 
> Only about 2 percent of Hawaii's children are in language-immersion
> programs.
> 
> New Zealand has similar
> 
> programs to promote the Maori language, but it's only used in the
> classrooms, not at home.
> 
> Katarina Edmonds, who is Maori working for the New Zealand Ministry of
> Education, wants to improve that by earning a doctorate in the
> revitalization aspect of the UH-Hilo program.
> 
> Another doctoral candidate is professor Jason Cabral, who is dedicating
> his studies to Hawaiian grammar to promote a high standard for the
> language.
> 
> Professor Larry Kimura grew up speaking Hawaiian; he had a significant
> hand in creating the Hawaiian-language program at UH-Hilo and was
> responsible recently for complete bilingualism in the exhibits at the
> Imiloa astronomy education center.
> 
> Now he's interested in Hawaiian poetry.
> 
> But like fellow professors Cabral and Perreira, he has lacked a
> doctorate. Now all three can earn those degrees.
> 


annie g. ross
First Nations Studies
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, British Columbia
V5A 1S6
annier@sfu.ca
Telephone:  604-291-3575  Facsimile:  604-291-5666

