The art of taking us back in time and making us feel the mana and spirituality of their dance. Just a few halau are able to do that, this being one of the best! Always a crowd favorite for over 40 years. Some are too old and past the qualifying age limits, but this halau just reloads.
"EO KAMUELA..." "ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFIQUE IN STYLE...GRACE...POISE...EXPRESSIONS OFHINA DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS..." MERCI BEAUCOUP...E ALOHA MANA KAPONO...MANEA SALUT" Carmel
Is the chant the men are singing anything traditional (i.e. anything I could look up)? I'm learning te reo Māori, but I've been really enamored with these performances, and I'd really like to be able to see the lyrics and look into what they're actually singing about.
If you are looking into te reo maori, one thing to keep in mind is that Maori elders went to the Island of Hawaii and at its southern most tip, they chanted a chant passed down to them for generations that said that they came from a place called Hawaiki, where there were cliffs and mooring holes. Upon seeing the cliffs and mooring holes driven into the boulders and rocks, they cried. Their chants were true. Hawaiians used to speak with the same r, and t long ago before the white men came and changed the language. There are drawings by the British who wrote the names of places in Hawaii still with r, and t in them. They used to still use a ng for n, and a soft v sound for w. The Maori language is very similar to Hawaiian, Tahitian, and Maequesan. In Hawaii the r was replaced by l, the t by k, and the ng by n, and a glottal stop ( ' ) was inserted to signify a missing letter. So when they say Hawaiki, its now Hawai'i. So when pronouncing it, say it with k, then without it. The Maori people are called tanata maori, Hawaiians are called Kanaka maoli, people of the land. Their chiefs are ariti, Hawaiians ali'i. They say Tahiti, Hawaiians say Kahiki. Te = ke or ka = the reo = leo = voice maori = maoli = native, indigenous Capt. Cook took with him a native speaker and he was able to communicate with many people across the Pacific and he theorized that Polynesians were of the same race as how could all the people he encountered could speak the same language across the biggest ocean on the tiniest islands, thousands of miles away.
@@hankakah4180 Yeah, I know it’s all connected, that’s kinda how I stumbled upon this. I’ve already picked up on several differences between te reo Māori and ’Ōlelo Hawaiʻi and just generally scoured wiktionary for a bunch of etymological roots. Digging through all this and learning the language has been very sweet, it’s unlike any of the other languages I speak, and I find the cultural background that comes hand in hand with it pretty great too
I have a question ❓ why did Hawaii have to change so drastically why couldn't you keep it common wealth I understand some maybe poor but the fruit alone and your survival skills should of been enough to keep this butieful place going.what happen to you.i would really like to know.Grandfather are there can elder explain this to me😢🤨🕊️🤍🪽🪽🪘🪶🥰
In 1893, the 5 biggest Landowners, mostly Missionary families, along with other American citizens, and with the help of the U.S Government's Marines and naval warship started a coup to point their guns and cannon at the residence of Queen Liliu'okalani's Iolani Palace, and under threats forced her to abdicate her throne to these American citizens, who asked for help from the US government to protect them as American citizens who feared for their lives and livelihood. She didn't want to see her people die needlessly with bloodshed, she protested while imprisoned in her own palace. The US President at the time Grover Cleveland sent a man to verify if this was what happened, which in those days were limited by electronic communication and long sea voyages. President Cleveland agreed that the takeover and overthrow was illegal and should return the Monarchy and rule to Hawai'i, but he was defeated by new president McKinley. At this time there was a move to put more land under the USA'S power grab and the took countries like,Guam, Virgin Islands, Cuba, Puerto Rici, etc. Meanwhile they banned Hawaiian from being taught in public, or dance, they annexed Hawaii to put it one step closer to becoming a state, so that the 5 biggest landowners could sell their sugar as a State without the more stringent taxes being levied on them if they were from a foreign country. Congress made an apology bill declaring that with the help of theIS Marines, Hawaii was illegally overthrown, and another President Clinton signed this acknowledged wrong. But till today these Hawaiian Islands are still occupied by Americans and much of the lands were sold to Non-Hawaiians. Many Hawaiians were cheated out of lands where they could not afford to pay on their own lands property taxes, and during the Great Depression Many Hawaiians have already succumbed to various diseases that wiped out the majority of their population. They were only about 40K est. Hawaiians left when voting for Annexation, which was further exasperated by needing to own the land to vote, and many other immigrants who had more voting power than the few remaining Hawaiians . Hawaii became a State and under the US Constitution forced upon them, equal rights for all were used to further decimate Hawaiian rights to what the US Government had set aside to take care of the native Hawaiians. Hawaiians were to have lands to build homes at leases of $1/year for 99 years. Unfortunately these Hawaiians Homes lands were given to businesses and people to make money, build airports, use land for trash landfill areas, in areas with rocky terrain and no water. In the meantime, some of the best beaches were assigned to the many military bases. In summary, what the Russian citizens asked Putin to defend them against a sovereign government, who then sent in his military to overtake and occupy parts of Ukraine, then had those Russian citizens there vote to annex the occupied Ukrainian states is history repeating itself. This time the hypocrisy is foreshadowed by the FREE WORLD Countries gathering. across the world to denounce Russians and defend Ukraine, while creating genocide in one of their own occupied States. Free Ukraine! Free Hawaii! RESTORE their sovereignty and their sovereign lands, language, culture, and livelihood!
Hawaii was never commonwealth. We were overthrown temporarily by the British however the king withdrew his people after getting word of the rogue captain’s invasion - recognizing our independence and sovereignty. Their temporary occupation decades prior to America’s is proof that it wasn’t just a “sign of the times” and “another country would have done it” is BS used by Americans to justify the illegal occupation of our kingdom.
