Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE Background -- CHAPTER TWO The Noble Savage Speaks -- CHAPTER THREE The Early Collections -- CHAPTER FOUR Reducing the Language to Writing: Explorers' and Traders' Alphabets -- CHAPTER FIVE Consonant Confusion -- CHAPTER SIX The Cornwall Connection: 3s, 8s, and Noah Webster -- CHAPTER SEVEN Fixing the Letters: Missionary Efforts 1820-1826 -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Missing Elements: Problems with Glottal Stops and Long Vowels -- CHAPTER NINE The Printed Word -- CHAPTER TEN Take My Word For It -- CHAPTER ELEVEN From Word List to Dictionary -- CHAPTER TWELVE Hawaiian Grammars -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN English for Speakers of Hawaiian -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Hawaiian for Speakers of English -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Hawaiian and Polynesian -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Language and Power: The Past, Present, and Future of Hawaiian Language Policy -- ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX