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Larry was born in Waimea, Hawaii County, Hawaii, U.S.A., between his Nisei father Hisao Kimura, who had immigrated from Hiroshima, Japan, and his Hawaiian mother, Elizabeth Lindsey, who had been brought up in a predominantly Hawaiian-speaking family. [2] Kimura has been an advocate for the revival of the once-prestigious Hawaiian language from ...
Kaʻiu Kimura was born in Waimea. [2] She is a yonsei (fourth-generation Japanese) [3] whose grandfather, agronomist Hisao Kimura and Hawaiian grandmother, Elizabeth Lindsey, had "a great romance," bringing together two well-known clans. [2] Kimura grew up with influences from both cultures and exposure to both spoken Hawaiian and Japanese. [2]
Kamanā studied Hawaiian language under Larry Kimura at the University of Hawaiʻi. [6] In 2010 she earned a Ph.D. in Hawaiian and Indigenous Language and Culture Revitalization from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. [7] She was the first person of Native Hawaiian ancestry to receive a Ph.D. in that topic from the College of Hawaiian Language ...
Keichi Kimura (born Hawaii 1914–1988) painter, Sueko Matsueda Kimura (born Hawaii 1912–2001) painter, John Ingvard Kjargaard (born Denmark 1902–1992) painter, Alan Leitner (born California 1947–) abstract painter, Huc-Mazelet Luquiens (born Massachusetts 1881–1961) painter, Genevieve Springston Lynch (born Oregon 1891–1960) painter,
Hula kahiko performance in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. The culture of the Native Hawaiians encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms practiced by the original residents of the Hawaiian islands, including their knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits.
The wildfire that killed scores of people in Lahaina leveled historical landmarks that made the town a center of Hawaiian culture. Mourning the catastrophic loss of Hawaiian culture and history in ...
The 28-year-old Hawaii native who worked as a bartender at a farm-to-table restaurant north of Lahaina is wary of fielding ... Some Hawaiian cultural experts say aloha is a complex and fluid idea ...
Native Hawaiian culture underwent a renaissance beginning in the 1970s. It was in part triggered by the 1978 Hawaiʻi State Constitutional Convention, held 200 years after the arrival of Captain Cook. At the convention, state government committed itself to the study and preservation of Hawaiian culture, history, and language.