March 26th: Iwakālua

By Leilani Poliʻahu

Published March 26, 2026 at 12:00 AM HST

Iwakālua, meaning twenty, is our Hawaiian word for today, and a good one to learn since it is a little different from all the other numbers in our counting.

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