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Chico Kaonohi, left, prays with Priscilla Hoʻopiʻi, center, and Lana Vierra, right, in November 2022 outside U.S. District Court in Honolulu, after his Native Hawaiian son was found guilty of a hate crime in the 2014 beating of a white man.

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Native Hawaiians face sentencing in a crime that exposed the state's racial complexity

2:26pm March 02, 2023

by The Associated Press

A jury convicted two men in November, finding that they were motivated by race in the brutal 2014 beating of a white man who tried to move into their remote, traditional fishing village on Maui.

Hawaiian language activist Larry Kimura led the charge in the 1970s in getting Hawaii's Department of Education to sanction Hawaiian-language immersion schools. The state, however, did not offer any support or curriculum, Kimura said. So they did it on th

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The Hawaiian Language Nearly Died. A Radio Show Sparked Its Revival

10:31am June 22, 2019

by Sara Kehaulani Goo

In Hawaii today, nearly everyone knows how to speak a few words and phrases of Hawaiian. But the practice of primarily speaking the Hawaiian language from birth nearly died two generations ago.

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Telescopes on the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island. Some native Hawaiians consider Mauna Kea sacred and object to construction of a new giant telescope there.

Hawaii's Supreme Court OKs Construction Of Giant Telescope Despite Native Objections

3:53am November 01, 2018

by Ruben Kimmelman

The massive telescope with a nearly 100-foot mirror is set to be built atop 13,800-foot Mauna Kea, considered sacred land by some of the project's opponents.

A beach near the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, which was expanded earlier this month, and is considered a sacred place by Native Hawaiians.

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Native Hawaiians Now Have A Pathway To Form A Government

6:02pm September 23, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

The Interior Department says Native Hawaiians can now choose whether to form a unified government, which could eventually enter into formal government-to-government relations with the U.S.

Native Hawaiians dance in honor of Mauna Kea at the base of Pu'u Huluhulu on the Big Island.

Construction Of Giant Telescope In Hawaii Draws Natives' Ire

3:27pm April 21, 2015

by Molly Solomon

In Hawaii, a battle is going on over the future of a mountaintop. Native Hawaiians say it's sacred ground, but astronomers say it's the best place in the world to build an 18-story telescope.

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