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A Conversation with Herb Kane - Artist, Author, Historian Print E-mail
Written by Sunrise on KGMB9 - sunrise@kgmb9.com   
July 28, 2008 06:51 AM

 
His artwork is legendary, but his humility is even greater. We sit down for a private conversation with master artist and historian Herb Kawainui Kane. Herb Kane was raised in Hilo and Waipio Valley on Hawaii island. During his childhood, he remembers his father speaking Hawaiian.

"I grew up in a time when it was not cool to be Hawaiian. And it was certainly not cool to learn the language. My dad would walk around Hilo talking Hawaiian, but when I started talking, he'd tell me to shut up and said 'Learn to speak English like your mother does. Because there's war coming, we were in a big depression, we don't know what the future's going to be, I'm worried about your future.' This was in the 30's. Things were very gloomy. So you can understand why parents did not want their children to learn Hawaiian, but to focus on learning to speak not pidgin, but good English. Because their futures depending on being able to do that.

"Many years later, I got interested and so my dad would write letters in Hawaiian and I would run to the dictionary and try to fashion a letter back to him. He was a story teller. He had a lot of little stories here. So I guess I picked up that affinity for stories from him."

We'll have more with Herb Kane, including his connection to master navigator Nainoa Thompson.


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Last Updated ( December 02, 2008 12:02 PM )
 
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