Thankfully, cultural practitioners, educators and community members like Murray Kawena Pukui, author of the Hawaiian Language Dictionary, kept the language of alive until interest in learning Hawaiian increased during the Hawaiian cultural renaissance in the 1970s. In 1978, LELO Hawaii was finally recognized as an official language of the State of Hawaii. quite the contrast to President Trump's executive order designating English as the language of our country. (02:50–03:00)
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Asserts that the Hawaiian language was recognized as an official language of Hawaii in 1978.
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