"Kanaeokana seeks to strengthen the lāhui [nation] and nurture the next generations of aloha ʻāina [love of the land] leaders by collaboratively developing and growing a Native Hawaiian education system built on a strong ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi and ʻike Hawaiʻi foundation."
—Kanaeokana, The Kula Hawaiʻi Network
"Shockingly, this practice of steering students away from Hawaiian continued into the early 1990s and is reported not infrequently to this day."
—Kāwika Eyre, Kamehameha Schools
"The use of the language vanished long ago. Hawaiians today speak the missionary language, a literal type of Hawaiian. The riddle is gone. This is tragic, for when you lose the language, you lose your identity."
—Nana Veary, Change We Must