Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 22, Number 2, 1 February 2005 — Untitled [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

iuulululu 0/a Dl.ai l&walu i £a ua Io£u — ua Āala a£ula 'o (' !arna Ilana/iele i la moe loa o Oliolopua. JIIa /a poli maluĀia o /e ~7i/t/a nō e rna/ia mau ai.

The Hawaiian e o m m u - nity, the Ni'ihau community and the 'ohana 'ōlelo Hawai'i from Hawai'i to Ni'ihau is sad-

dened by the recent passing of Bernice Elama Kanahele. Born at Pu'uwai, Ni'ihau in 1955, Kanahele - a longtime educator and Hawaiian language supporter - passed away on Kaua'i last month. Elama Kanahele served as an outreach counselor at Kaua'i Community College. Among her many accomplishments was the authoring of a book on Ni'ihau stories in both English and the Ni'ihau dialect of 'ōlelo Hawai'i, and her assistance in establishing two Hawaiian charter schools on Kaua'i: Ke Kula Ni'ihau o Kekaha and Ke Kula Aupuni o Kahelelani Aloha. Kanahele received her bachelor's degree in edueahon from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, and advocated for the edueahonal advancement of the Ni'ihau community. 7Ho/a nui nō i /a lo/iana.