Shared on Facebook: July 14, 2016.

"There are so many kūpuna who have talked to me, tears in their eyes, who told me they were punished for speaking Hawaiian."

Throwback Thursday: In 1998, Hawaiian scholars Daviana McGregor and Mahealani Wendt met with author Thurston Twigg-Smith to discuss his book, "Hawaiian Sovereignty: Do The Facts Matter?" on an episode of Island Issues. Here Thurston, a descendant Lorrin Thurston (a primary factor in the illegal overthrow our beloved Queen Liliʻuokalani) attempts to claim that Hawaiians were never stopped from speaking the Hawaiian language.

#ʻIkeMatters #KeepTheConversationGoing

Film Source Material:
Island Issues; History and Hawaiian Sovereignty. 1998.

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