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The only evidence for a Tahitian conquest of the islands are the legends of Hawai?iloa and the navigator-priest Pa?ao,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] who is said to have made a voyage between Hawai?i and the island of "Kahiki" (Tahiti) and introduced many new customs. Some Hawaiians believe that there was a real historical Pa?ao. Early historians, such as Fornander and Beckwith, also subscribed to this Tahitian invasion theory, but later historians, such as Kirch, simply do not mention it.
King Kalakaua, in his book, The Legends and Myths of Hawaii, claims that Pa?ao was from Samoa. The religion he brought, the Kahuna religion was from Samoa. Pa?ao was instrumental in bringing the High Chief Pili from Samoa to rule the island of Hawaii. Pili is a well known entity in Samoan mythology. His descendents were one of the highest ranked families in Samoa even to this day. All Hawaiian royalty are also descendants of Pili.
Some writers believe that there were other settlers in Hawai?i,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] peoples who were forced back into remote valleys by newer arrivals. They claim that stories aboutmenehune, little people who built heiau and fishponds, prove the existence of ancient peoples who settled the islands before the Hawaiians.[5] Luomala, in her 1951 essay on the menehune, argues that these stories, like stories of "dog people" with tails living in deep forests, are folklore and not to be construed as evidence of an earlier race. Archaeologists have found no evidence suggesting earlier settlements and menehune legends are simply not mentioned or discussed in current archaeological literature.
The Hawaiian language was once the primary language of the native Hawaiian people. Today, native Hawaiians predominately speak the English language because of over a century of being a part of the United States of America, as a Territory and then as a State of the Union. Another large contributing factor was an 1896 law that required that English "be the only medium and basis of instruction in all public and private schools." This law prevented the Hawaiian language from being taught as a second language. Some native Hawaiians (as well as non-native Hawaiians) have learned the native Hawaiian language as a second language. As with others local to Hawaii, native Hawaiians often speakHawaiian Creole English, referred to as pidgin English, a creole which developed during Hawai?i's plantation era in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with the influence of the various ethnic groups living in Hawaii during that time.
The Hawaiian language has been promoted for revival most recently by a state program of cultural preservation enacted in 1978.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] Programs included the opening of Hawaiian language immersion schools and the establishment of a Hawaiian language department at the University of Hawai?i at Mānoa. As a result, Hawaiian language learning has climbed among all races in Hawai?i.
In 2002, the University of Hawaii at Hilo established a masters program in the Hawaiian Language.[8] In fall 2006, they established a doctoral (Ph.D) program in the Hawaiian Language. In addition to being the first doctoral program for the study of Hawaiian,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it is the first doctoral program established for the study of any native language in the United States of America. Both the masters and doctoral programs are considered by global scholars as pioneering in the revival of native languages.
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