![]() ![]() “Many of them said to me that they were being looked down upon because of the their brown skin and Hawaiian ways. “It was part of a general feeling that Hawaiians weren’t being treated right in their home place,” she said of the cultural ramifications of bringing the Hawaiian language to the forefront of a daily newspaper. “I started it and we’ve been do it every since,” she said of the use of the okina for almost 20 years in each issue of The Garden Island. “We learned how to treat the Hawaiian language properly,” Holmes said in a call from her home in Lawai. ![]() They were inspired at the conference by becoming aware of the widespread rebirth of the Hawaiian language in daily life in the Hawaiian Islands, and saw they had an opportunity to do their part in reestablishing the Hawaiian language on Kauai. She, along with radio announcer Bill Dahle of the Westside AM station KUAI, attended a Native Hawaiian language conference held at Kauai Community College. The concept of adding the okina to the pages of The Garden Island came to Holmes at a conference held at Kauai Community College.
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