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Indigenous Communities Sustained through Multimedia || Lilinoe Yong, University of Hawaii Manoa Campus, Hawaii, United States, dyong@notes.k12.hi.us || According to Warner (1996), “for nearly one hundred years Hawaiian has been a severely repressed minority language in its homeland” (p. 1). With less than 1,000 native speakers left, it was up to the Hawaiian community to perpetuate the language. The Hawaiian Language Immersion Program (HLIP) was established in 1987 by a grassroots effort of parents and Hawaiian Language advocates. Students in grades K-12 are taught the Hawaii Content & Performance Standards through the medium of the Hawaiian Language. This ongoing study was undertaken to investigate some of the possibilities of using technology to sustain the Hawaiian Immersion Program in transmitting the Hawaiian language to a new generation of digital learners and to preserve the past with technology. This attempt at linguistic and cultural regenesis is dependent upon establishing a Hawaiian community of learners, and acquiring various forms of multimedia to store such knowledge. One reason to support this study is that there is a lack of Hawaiian printed materials in the Kula Kaiapuni, the World Wide Web, and in the general community. Pilot testing studies conducted by Slaughter proved to be successful. || General session Forum Novice ||
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