Teaching life lessons
Hawaiian performers charm students

Kawahine Tokunaga, center, leads a group of traditional singers and storytellers that traveled to Gallup from Oahu, Hawaii, for the Hane’ Storyteller Festival at First United Methodist Church Friday. — © 2009 Gallup Independent / Cable Hoover

Copyright © 2009
Gallup Independent
By Leslie Wood
For The Independent

GALLUP — Rehoboth Christian School student Cheyanne Carlisle could not have been more excited about the Hawaiian group Kupunu and Kumu’s performance at her school’s campus Wednesday morning.

She reviewed the troupe’s skit down to specific detail as she played with the candlewood tree pendant given to her as a momento from the storytellers’ visit.

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