<i>Hula</i> as an embodied language practice: dancing with ancestral and indigenous Funds of Knowledge / <i>El</i> hula <i>como práctica lingüística corporizada: una danza con los Fondos de Conocimiento ancestrales</i>

This reflective and scholarly piece explores how hula embodies and activates Indigenous knowledge systems, serving as a vital site of resistance, resilience, cultural reclamation, language revitalization and education. The author traces her evolving engagement with the concept of Funds of Knowledge, first introduced during her university studies and later expanded and applied in educational settings focused on Indigenous language revitalization. This journey is further deepened through her participation in a roundtable discussion on dance ethnography, where hula emerged not just as a performative art but as a form of education that transmits generational knowledge, values and identity through an embodied practice. Centring Hawai‘i, the article highlights the centrality of ancestral and Indigenous knowledge in hula , illustrating how the cultural tradition and practice function as a vital vehicle for transmitting the Hawaiian language and reclaiming cultural identity. Through this lens, hula is examined as both a powerful pedagogical tool and a generative source of knowledge, essential to the documentation, preservation and revitalization of traditional practices, particularly in the context of historical colonization and ongoing occupation.