Moʻolelo
Narratives of the Native Hawaiian people / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Moʻolelo are the narrative stories of the Native Hawaiian people.[1] These fiction and nonfiction narratives were exclusively oral at first, but began to be disseminated through writing in the 1800s after the development of the written Hawaiian language. The 1896 ban on Hawaiian language instruction in schools prevented several generations of Native Hawaiians from reading moʻolelo that were not translated into English.