Hawaiian exchange student says Māori immersion experience invaluable 

This is awesome. We're all one people, all Polynesian languages and cultures have so many similarities because we all basically have the same ancestors. There's a saying 'We were all on the same boat, just got off at different places", we're all basically cousins in a way. #PolyPride ✊✊ #KanakaMaoli #Māori

As an American from The east Coast I want to see Hawaiian become a widely spoken language.

I have so much aloha to my Maori Whanau :) I can't wait to travel to Aotearoa and be there with my people because I represent both worlds, Kanaka Maoli and Tangata whenua

Chur to the Hawaiian brothers and sisters out there we are all whanau one love

Beautiful to watch these. I was born in Australia to an italian father and a maori mother (sadly both have passed). I thought i knew something about my mum's culture until after she died back in 2013 and I realised I knew very little, even my older half brothers (born from my Dad's first marriage, pure italians) knew more than I did just from a google search. After mums funeral I called my sister (like me, half italian half maori but has lived in NZ since 1993 and is married to maori), she gave me earful (rightly deserved) and told me where I should go to learn. Since then I've befriended many maori ex pats here, one of the older gents even tried to teach me Whakairo (which I was crap at, but was nice of him). For me the whole experience has brought me closer to my mum, I'm pretty sure she'd be proud.

I didn't realize they were having the same struggles as the native American. At the end of the day we are all one.

We love our Maoli brothers n sisters

Te Reo and Hawai'i are beautiful languages. Fight for them always. Cheers from Croatia!

love my Maori! especially when you see other ethnicities coming here to see how we've kept our reo/culture alive and thriving, so they can take what they seen, lived and learnt back to their people. where it be Hawaiian's, American Indians etc...we're leading the way. I'm so THANKFUL for our forefathers and mother's that fort to kept our language and culture alive, cause without them we would be another English speaking Indigenous Peoples.

Hawaiian is very closely related linguistically to Samoan and Maori. It is important I edit this comment to include Tahitian root ancestry in Hawaiian language. Tahitian speech is very significant as a root ancestor in the evolution of the Hawaiian language.

Kiaora tatau o te whanau Hawaii You will go far and the people of the Pacific shell raise again. Te moana nui a kiwa.

We all da same Kanaka Maoli/Tangata Maori/Tanata Maohi/Tagata Maoli just diff dialects. The Ni'ihau dialect is like 90% Cook Islands Maori go their and test your Korero on them ;) E Kia Manuia...

All Polynesian people are one people. We were called the Lapita people. The word Polynesia was a name Europeans gave us. We were a nomadic sea-farring people. We each settled in different islands and, over time, the language evolved separately but still we can still see the similarities in language and culture.

Ka mau te wehi !

Kia kaha cuzzie

Good to see some of our younger generation not afraid to take back what the system is trying to destroy.our "MANAO"!!....MAHALO KE AKUA!!

Cool

Nice

Damn I love her accent, way better than our paru accent 😂

a w e s o m e !

👍🏽

Aotearoa ❤️🤙🏻 Hawaii

Aotearoa !

We all sit under the umbrella of He Whakaputanga united we would become a force under the creator

Cheeeee! Nanakuli!!!!

#deindigeniseNZ

Come to the cook islands and learn the real Maori culture the new Zealand Maori are our younger brother we are the elder brother

I'm ashamed of myself...I'm maori niuean...and I can't even speak none ....now that sux Kos other people from other islands and countries speak my maori native tounge