Events
2019 Mokuola Honua Symposium
Looking back at the symposium
Watch presentations and a panel on indigenous language
revitalization and normalization efforts across four thematic
areas: education, policy, media, and business.
November 19-22, 2019
Hale‘ōlelo, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo
University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo's Hawaiian Language College
Outcomes of the 2019 Mokuola Honua Symposium
The driving goal of the 2019 symposium was to provide attendees an opportunity to engage with other indigenous language advocates in experiential learning and discourse to increase our individual and collective capacity to further our language normalization efforts. By way of outcomes, event organizers have developed the program with a focus on the following:
Indigenous Language Site Visits
Gave attendees an opportunity to experience and learn about the P-20 educational programming that has become the foundation of the Hawaiian language movement.
Relationship Building
Created relationships – personal and professional – between representatives from communities globally that are actively working on language revitalization and normalization initiatives.
Language applied to education, government, media and business.
Had invitees engage in breakout sessions to identify and analyze strategic priorities for the integration and promotion of our indigenous languages in four sectors: education, government, media and business.
Engaging with leaders and decision makers
Engaged with Hawaiʻi-based leaders and decision-makers from four sectors of society – education, government, and business – to get insight on how to refine these priorities in a manner that would facilitate the forming of meaningful partnerships in the broader societies where we are deploying our own individual language revitalization and normalization initiatives.
The overarching goal was to enlist attendees to identify the common denominators of success that are duplicable globally in the ongoing work to strengthen indigenous perspectives through indigenous languages.
