Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono (Hawaiian pronunciation: [ˈuə ˈmɐw ke ˈɛə o kə ˈʔaːi.nə i kə ˈpo.no]) is a Hawaiian phrase, spoken by Kamehameha III, and adopted in 1959 as the state motto. [1] It is most commonly translated as "the life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness."
Quotes "The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes."
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
Hawaiian-Japanese Dictionary ; Kamapua'a, by John Charlot 'Olelo No'eau: Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings, by Mary Kawena Pukui; The Legend of La'ieikawai with Martha Warren Beckwith; The Law of the Splintered Paddle: Kanawai Mamalahoe by Carol Chang; A Pocket Guide to the Hawaiian Language by Albert J. Schutz
Pukui was born on April 20, 1895, in her grandmother's home, named Hale Ola, in Haniumalu, Kaʻu, on Hawaiʻi Island, to Henry Nathaniel Wiggin (originally from Salem, Massachusetts, of a distinguished shipping family descended from Massachusetts Bay Colony governor Simon Bradstreet and his wife, the poet Anne Bradstreet) [6] and Mary Paʻahana Kanakaʻole, descendant of a long line of kahuna ...
Pages in category "Hawaiian words and phrases" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ahupuaʻa;
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
A hālau is Hawaiian word meaning a school, academy, or group. Literally, the word means "a branch from which many leaves grow." Today a hālau usually describes a hula school (hālau hula). The teacher at the hālau is the kumu hula, where kumu means source of knowledge, or literally just teacher.