Trailers and short videos by the documentary team Na Maka o ka `Aina, focusing on Hawaiian culture, history, environment, language and politics of independence and sovereignty.
Back when Hawai'i was still Hawai'i, even though I was born in 1991 on O'ahu, it still felt like Hawai'i the old ways and Aloha still existed. Once 1999-2000 came everything started to change and fade away... I miss the good ol days.
What treasures! -- Both Tutu Mary Ann Pahukoa and this video recorded by the students at Keʻanae School capturing and preserving her wonderful storytelling in beautiful Pidgin and Hawaiian. It sounds so familiar, but we really donʻt hear someone talking this way much anymore. Today some public schools have high-tech equipment and media productions facilities, but with the easy availability of cell phones, the DOE should fund a program like this for young students to go out and record the moʻolelo of the kupuna in their lives, either family or neighbors or special people in the community. I think it is especially important for the newer immigrants to record the memories and authentic speech of the older generations because experiences and way of life and speaking will soon be quite different for the younger ones.
Reminded me of my grandfather giving me the oral history of family and Island life, just as she did for you folks here. The no refrigerator was a common theme of family members from that time. To eat a lot of things you slaughtered yourself, and yes, $1.00 dollar a day, was considered big money back in that time. You would be amazed how much food you could purchase even back in the 1960’s era, with $20.00. Hawaii, was such a beautiful and safe place to grow up. What’s funny for me is even the women’s accent while speaking English giving you the oral history is familiar to my ears. Because my grandfather sounded almost the same with intermittent Hawaiians and English words combined in the same sentences. As a young boy the story of him telling me of the day he witnessed the bombing of, Pearl Harbor while he was at work early that morning was one of my most memorable oral history lessons. Thank you for recording this for posterity. Aloha 🌺🌸🌼❤️🇺🇸
My gramma living the life with her dog spotty in the church the person speaking is my mom pearl pahukoa who still can be herd on special Sunday's mom I love you so so much your son.Harry kumukoa Pahukoa 3rd (BOBO
@@kualii4936 Mahalo, William Manoa 1 was maintenance man for Keanae School for a long time, he lived across the school, also Branch President for the Mormon Church. He had lo’i kuliana too to which he raises his family. The property was probably handed down from his kupuna.
@@vp3970 Yeah dont remember a Manoa but Kuoha sound familiar. Kaauamo, Kekiwi, Camichael, Kana, Tau'a, Akiona, Wendt, Chong, Akina, and Hueu are probably some of the few remaining ohana in Ke'anae and Wailua Nui
My great grandma did the opai that way too. We need to cherish our Kuupunas record document there stories of life it's so beneficial for not only that ohana it will also have a benefit to all of us.. Thank you so much for sharing your treasures with all of us.. Mahalo...
I think that's my relative. Gabriel Kanamu Tau'a married Helen KahaleKai Pahukoa in Ke'anae, Maui. Helen died in the tidal wave that hit on April Fool's day 4/1/1945. She had 12 children and had gotten all the children out and then went back to the house to get some papers when the tidal wave hit and took her and the house out to the ocean where she drown. Her husband found her but it was too late.
As I sit here and listen to her I have tears in my eyes and sorrow. Because how the Polynesians were Rob of their freedom. She's a great woman. Strong and courageous.
I just learned that America used the Hawaiian Island for sugar plantations, and they did not care about the Hawaiian land nor the people. Some people wanted to save the Hawaiian people, but they were not able to.
Did I hear her say Pele is the "only" Godess that has come to us? Actually, the Lord God Almighty has come to the Hawaiian people and it was our own Alii who were the first to desecrate the OLD temples.
I feel that there is something missing in the grander picture. How can this land grab have happened without invoking a war. Maybe the people of The Kingdom of Hawaii are peace loving but what about the representatives sent out by the last queen to foreign countries. Did they do nothing? Did they not have any connections to alter the situation? The united states of America was not a super power at the time. Pictures circled the world of starving Boer in British invented concentration camps. Peacekeepers from various European countries arrive in China, where they join with Japanese forces to fight the Boxer. Russia invaded Manchuria. The international Court at The Hague was just created. I see options that were not taken.
I love this Man! Doctor Keanu Sai, You cannot Annex An independent state by a “Joint Resolution” aka “Act of Congress” that shoul not expand over US Territory. D- Occupy The Kingdom of Hawaii and make things just America!
Lohi wale no ka wā e ho'okū ai i ko kākou lāhui. 'O ka ho'ā'o o ko 'Amelika ma ka wā o ku'u tūtū mā (1930s) ko lākou ho'ā'o hope loa e ho'opau ai I ka Hawai'i. E OLA MAU KA HAWAI'I. E OLA MAU KO KĀKOU LĀHUI. E OLA MAU KA 'OLELO HAWAI'I
I could watch and listen to this over and over...so thankful for this for my ability to identify kalo growing naturally on the hillside of my Hales backyard above the gulch...Mahalo Uncle, RIL
