Moana was a hit movie released in 2016. It was produced in over 40 languages and shown in theaters around the world. Moana is unusual because it was the first Walt Disney Studios film ever to be re-recorded in the native language of Hawaii. Now, the Hawaiian version is being provided to schools across the state in an effort to get students interested in the language. English and Hawaiian are the two official languages of Hawaii. But for many years, Hawaiian has been in danger of disappearing. The Hawaiian Islands were made by volcanoes. They lie in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, about 4,000 kilometers from the United States mainland. Hawaii’s native population came from Polynesia, a collection of hundreds of islands in the North and South Pacific.
