 By the 1980s there were only around 50 Hawaiian speakers outside of Ni'ihau, and in 1983 Hawaiians started the first Pūnana Leo, language nest immersion preschool.In 1986, the ban on the Hawaiian language in schools was lifted, and in 1987 the first immersion school began in the islands.Similar to IBE, there is an emphasis on training immersion teachers not just as educators, but as "mauli ola Hawai'i" or teachers of Hawaiian identity.