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Three years ago today, “lockdown” was a keyword across the islands. As the pandemic stretched on, those on the front lines included medical workers, but also people working in restaurants and schools.
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Three years since the pandemic began, sometimes we can forget the amount of uncertainty and fear in those early days of COVID. As part of our continuing project with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Center for Oral History, we are focusing on the experience of health care workers.
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COVID-19 is still very much a part of daily life for many people across the islands. This month marks three years from the start of stay-at-home orders and other restrictions. The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa was one group that scrambled to adjust in the early days of the pandemic.
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It was three years ago this week that the Department of Health announced the first case of COVID-19 in Hawaiʻi. Before the month was out, a stay-at-home order and travel restrictions were put in place. We're taking a look back at Hawaiʻi's pandemic response with the Center for Oral History.
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The growth of Hawaiian language immersion schools has exploded in recent years. Fifty years ago, there were only a handful of Hawaiian language speakers. Now, the community is thriving. With the Center for Oral History, we're sharing how that story stretches from kupuna to keiki.
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This month we are celebrating Mahina ʻŌlelo Month, or Hawaiian Language month. Our stories are all in ‘Ōlelo Hawaiʻi from a collection of interviews with kūpuna who were born in Kona around the turn of the 20th century.
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Ernest Golden was born in 1923 in Athens, Georgia. He left the South in 1942 for a civil service job in Hawaiʻi and stayed afterward in the airport porter industry. Golden shared his thoughts on the challenges of building community through business and assimilation. With the Center for Oral History, we're bringing you his voice and many others during Black History Month.
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February is Black History Month, but the story of African Americans in Hawaiʻi is one that is often not heard. As part of our continuing project with the Center for Oral History, we're taking a listen to two people who had very different experiences in mid-20th century Hawaiʻi.
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The Hawaiian language was banned in schools starting in 1896 and was not heard in classrooms for four generations, according to the DOE. In recognition of Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi and as part of our project with the UH Mānoa Center for Oral History, we focus on the evolution of the use of Hawaiian from education to music.
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Late last year, Hawaiʻi lost a healer who played a crucial role in the state's cultural development. Dr. Noa Emmett Auwae Aluli was a physician on Molokaʻi and a leader of the movement that returned Kahoʻolawe to the people of Hawaiʻi from the control of the U.S. military. His story was this week's segment from the UH Center for Oral History.