I want to thank our sister from Aotearoa.

Our language was only being spoken in Ni'ihau and for those of us raised with family who still spoke it. And we actually went and became educated by our Maori family, to help to re-introduce the language with the patterns that the Maori shared.

So what I'm saying is they helped to bring the cadence and the understanding of punanaleio or to speak the Hawaiian language from children using the model that worked for them.

Can you imagine that?

I'm so thankful to you, sister of Aotearoa, because we all recognize the generosity of that opportunity.

I'm referencing the mannerisms, the way they taught. So imagine… here we had elders, we had people who were speaking the language. But until 1963, there was no opportunity of Hawaiian language taught at the university level.

Because of the Maori, they were able to show us a pattern to teach that excited or got everyone in all of the framework of charter schools, creating an immersion program in Hawai'i.

So now you can go to all the islands and hear the language, it's breathing and it's alive.

When I say cadence, what we all speak about, I'm saying all indigenous people, there is a breath that we motion or move with.

And it is the ocean, it is the soft breeze of the winds. All of these things help to teach or embody, for us, the understanding of the written word, as well as the vibrational, spiritual entity of the voice.

The Maori are people who never forgot. So they helped to immerse us…

The teaching experience of Hawai'i helped to give a pattern that quickly was able to change the educational systems in Hawai'i and why you see and can understand and appreciate the cultural practices. So this is what I’m saying. Mahalo for the help.

The wise ones would say that a language is a vibration of Mother Earth.

So, if the language dies, the vibration of Mother Earth that it is carrying dies. So, now our work is to wake up the vibration of Mother Earth.

There are languages that help humans communicate with each other, there are languages of human with human and there are languages that help us communicate with nature.

And when the wise ones speak in the languages of nature, those of us who only know how to hear the language of humans cannot understand it because they're very sacred words.

So, we need to get there to get to this understanding. This is why we have our Confederation saying that we have to build this thought of the House of Wisdom. So that the young people can sit for nine days and then sit for 18 days, until one day they are able to sit for six months or nine times nine or nine times nine twice, then they would understand what is inside of the wisdom and feel and vibrate with nature.

That is what we are saying. Because my culture has schools, where the kids are hearing daily from elders how to live the spirituality and thus they become the future elders with these teachings.

So that is a model that other cultures can also use. And by so doing, we can keep the vibration as strong as ever. Or like at the beginning of creation. Thank you.