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World-renowned hula instructors, called kumu hulas, travel from Hawaii to lead the workshops, Bergstrom said.

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Ua pau ka makou olelo, aohe hana i koe, kulia imua o ka ai a ke kumu a kakou i ao pu oleia mai ia makou, a ke olelo mai nei hoi oe, ua kani ka pola o ko malo, malia o lanakila oe i ua malo ou. "

The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915

In questioning the mainland teachers, he told them: "If you're going to call yourself a kumu hula, you have to ground yourself in the source, and the source is in Hawaii, not California."

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"Sometimes I think people back home look down on us," said Oakland, Calif.-based Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu, the kumu hula of the Academy of Hawaiian Arts, one of three mainland teachers featured in the 2003 PBS documentary "American Aloha."

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Like many Polynesian cultures, Hawaii was a society whose history was handed down to younger generations through song, chant, and dance by tribal kumu hulas.

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But being away from the islands allows Mr. Makuakane and other hula teachers, or "kumu hula," to "look around and do what might not be possible to do yet in Hawaii," says Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman, an ethnomusicologist at the University of Michigan and founder of the Great Lakes Hula Academy.

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"I wouldn't normally do that, otherwise my kumu would smack me in the head," Mr. Chang says.

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Like many Polynesian cultures, Hawaii was a society whose history was handed down to younger generations through song, chant, and dance by tribal kumu hulas.

George Heymont: The Music and Its Message: Songs of Protest and Cultural Identity George Heymont 2011

Part of the annual Maoli Arts Festival, the Mamo fashions were modeled by hula students of all ages and sizes from five halau; they danced down the catwalk under the direction of musician and kumu hula Robert Cazimero.

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Back at his room, he saw that there were three messages waiting for him from Chizuko, his _kumu_ -- his sweetheart.

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