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Kamehameha didn't stand out because of his "darting eyes" he stood out because he was over 7 foot tall and massively strong. The Naha stone resides today in front of Hilo library. Don't think you're moving it either - it is huge!

This documentary is outdated in regards to its understanding and portrayal of the "koa" warriors. First off, the word "koa" by itself can mean brave, not just warrior. In fact, the word "pūʻali" was used more to describe the soldiery, whereas "koa" was just a way to describe anyone brave, hence "pūʻali koa" (brave soldiers) and "pūkaua koa" (brave war leader). The truth is we don't know how the tree got its name, but the word "koa" is a cognate for "toa", which exists in other Polynesian languages like Samoan and Maori. The word "pūʻali" means to gird, as a loincloth. The "malo" which is the Hawaiian loincloth, was girded before combat and battle, hence the term "pūʻali" to describe its soldiers. In modern days, the term "pūʻali" is used for any kind of soldiery, such as "pūʻali koa" for "Army" as opposed to "pūʻali lewa" for "Air Force." This is an *okay* attempt at trying to convey the Hawaiian story to a foreign audience, but it misses the mark on accuracy.

Shark tooth paddle ripping through your turkey purse seems like a pretty nasty way to go.

This is my first time seeing an account that fully explained the context of this incident based on psychological and cultural motivations. It feels so much more real and humanizing to explain it based on the koa warriors' mentality rather than the usual patronizing take of polynesian natives not having any sense of object value or personal property.

Nice to review the earliest days of Captain Cooks’ arrival and subsequent death on the big island, Hawaii. The Polynesian people along the western Pacific Rims’ islands, all the way down to New Zealand and the Pacific South Sea Islands, for millennia were the largest population of citizens in these areas. Polynesians! They are truly a remarkable people built extremely large and strong, so of course they would have a great warrior class, but they also had their “incredible seafaring skills”that allowed them to travel thousands of miles to islands like the Hawaiian Islands. A beautiful, proud, artistic, premier fishing people. I enjoyed this documentary very much. It shows how the British could be and often were overly pompous, dependent on their technology, and military skills. Also, a proud group of great seafaring people that definitely had one of the greatest Navy’s’ through out Middle Ages until the 20century where many of the First World Nations were creating high functioning Navy’s as well. 👍🥰

Why not one Hawaiian elder interviewed or gave correct history of Hawaii

Firing up the cannons showing their power also shows how destructive and murderous they are

It absolutely baffles me that people think of hawaii people as push overs and say they don’t face struggles, just because they live on a island paradise, that same island paradise bred one of the most ruthless warriors, and has had over 1,000’s and 1,000’s of bloody battles, I literally seen people in comments say hawaii has no ghettos, like dude lmfao

So glad this showed up in my feed.

Many of the hand to hand combat techniques in this video are VERY reminiscent of Marine Corps line training in the mid nineties at least.

Ancestors of Max Holloway! The best is blessed!!

It was a thrilled watching documentary about Koa warriors..in Hawaii islands...thank you 🙏(Timeline) channel for sharing

Now the locals can’t afford to live there

The warriors fighting each other shows how they resolve their issues. Only handmade weapons and no long range killings

I so enjoyed that. Ive aways loved Hawall & their traditions. ❤

Also misses the fact that the ball bounced off of hala armor when the musket misfired.

Thanks for posting. We have vacationed to the Big Island and appreciate that it seems less crowded and commercial than the other islands. A lot of the scenes look like they are from a place we visited & snorkled. The one with the wooden carvings looks like 'Two Step'. We went night manta ray observing in the bay.

I believe this documentary missed the fact he arrived first one Kauai at the beginning of makahiki... Then was gone for 1.5 years and came back at end of makahiki... Was treated poorly rather than worshipped then left for 3 weeks and had to return because of mast...

Hawaiians were tough tough people the way they are today.

Hawaiian Pride... the Mana is deeper than Space, if you know you know 🤙🚣🏄🌺🌋🏝️⚡🐗🦎🦈🐠🐟🐡🦀🐙🥥🗿🪘

do note. Paiea actually flipped the Naha stone completely.

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I have read biographies of Cook's voyages and the log of his ship. It was Cook's 2nd visit to the is

So that's where Goku got his signature energy blast

They didn’t speak on how the King in WW1 vowed to help the British. And how they were thanked by the capitol trying to be taken from them. Even today, from his daughter and granddaughter.

I like kamahamaha’s safety pin lol

I've been waiting for this.

thank you for this tune in to apple tvs chief of war to see us in action!!!

Interesting the story sounds eerily similar to Fin Mac Cool's childhood crossed with the Deirdre prophesy,sort of an echo of some Greek mythology. Nasty prophesy leads to child being raised in secret seems to run in almost every culture when you dig into it.

There is no rush like you get from winning a fight

Don’t look like King Kamehameha people to me. Presentation is just as important as the information.

How did they communicate with each other?

They were hardkoa

Its cool to see my old roomate Mcshane as a Koa Warrior🤙🤙👊👊 aloha my braddah..

It's how life in the island was when you know there are other islands near by

I think this raises an interesting point despite them having such power they were destroyed by others, not because of how strong they were but simply because of the technology they did not have. It seems that no matter who we become we will never be able to hold a candle against the things we build.

Some linguistic coaching would have been fantastic. Pronunciation of Hawaiian words is important and phonetic. It's KameHameHa, not Kemeamea. The pronunciation of Kealakekua is also cringe worthy. On a positive note, glad to see light shined on Hawaiian history to start conversations beyond the perception of Hawaii as just a tropical paradise.

💪 good stuff I really enjoyed it

So Kamehameha was Muten Roshi Masters?

Hawaiians also used hardwood clubs lined with Shark teeth. Some even had Marlin Bills on the opposite end to be used for stabbing.

The first visit was a time of peace and feasting. No violence allowed. Upon Cook's return to the islands he was killed and devoured. The assimilation of the Hawaiians is and was unfair. The Hawaiians were so far more advanced in so many entities, most, can never concieve. Hawaiian studies and lived on sacred koa warrior land. Mahalo.🙏🤙

Who did the research for this?

My Makua Kane from Hawi, Hawai'i. My Ohana Ke Akua Pu. Ke Aloha No. Malama malama. 😊🤙

King Kamehameha was more brown than portrayed in this video, also he was not bald.

Mahalo friend.

The “Warriors” they are showing looked nothing like that!🤣🤣🤣

They forgot to mention the part when they ate him. No BS. They actually ATE him.

The guy narrating the tv show is British, this is probably their point of view. And probably why no Hawaiian actors or historians are in this.

The chief used foreign weapons to conquer the islands...so called united them...truly didn't conquer them all...the foreigners then conquered them all...pimped them

The chief sitting down while wearing the cloak is very questionable…

cookki oli orjuuttaja

Remember that kauai was never conquered!

No Ka Oi! Remember Solomon Kaihewalu Ke Koa Kempo. Lua Once Kapu is open But what land was open and Maui and Lahaina. Remember 48 and then 68 No Ka Oi. Never surrender the Capitol! They like to remember Indigenous people like they are gone. WE ARE HERE! And WE WILL MAKE YOU REMEMBER.

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That warrior nature and even some of the language (terminology) is evident in the Māori of New Zealand .

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Way too many commercials while watching this!

George Vancouver LED who around the islands

everything that has happened before this moment - is in history.

Then the white man gave Kamehameha the Great guns and cannons, and he forgot about all this antiquated stuff and united Hawaii in a couple years.

This is so inaccurate it sad all this is , is a narrative change and left out the most substantial information I’m sure on purpose! 1) kauai was never conquered 2) Kamehameha was backed by who? If he was fighting against the other Hawaiians?? 3) the diseases that were brought to the islands killing 90% of the kanaka in a matter of 3-4 years 4) the imprisonment of the queen This is all so current for the kanaka here it’s only 3-4 generations ago! The westerns tried to change the narrative with Kamehameha schools , Hawaiian home lands and the merry monarch… All to keep the people dumb down and to forget what really happened!

I hate it when people make documentaries about Hawaii and can’t even pronounce Hawaiian words.

😂 Brah Kamehameha was bolo head? I no think so

There Just Like The Zulu Warriors With There Dance and Chants Very Similar They Were Great Warriors Like All Great Warrior in History Today Stamps There Mark As Greatest Ancient Warriors To Defeat Imperialism

Kaaaaameeeeeeehaaaaaaameeeeeehaaaaaaa

War was lost Battle was won

He gave them knives? Really? Not too smart, eh.

Mana - Honour/Bushido? i just compare. its a way to life?

Ka kau Let's fight That's Hawaiian and Samoan saying

Won the battle, lost the war.

They didn't take on the might of the British it was 2 ships 😂😂

They won A battle......

and they ate him.

Over there they call him cpt Cooked

The load one droppers acting in this video 🤦🏾‍♂️

😂 where this mana’o coming from ?????

Whose the genius that picked non-Hawaiians to represent Kanakas! My King didn't look like a skinny dope scrub. Kamehameha was 7' pure muscle, the real Mr. Universe!. In fact, all Hawaiian men were cut up with muscles!

If you're going to say the names of our places or people, at least learn your vowels (a, e, i, o, u, he, ke, la, mu, nu, pi, we).

So the men could be 6ft to 7 ft. Am I correct.

Hi there 👋 could you guys bring out some info about the Getae people and the Dacians

Your depiction using actors to portray full blooded 7 foot tall Hawaiian warriors from the 18th-Century was a little off.

They needed the vikings to fight thrm

I wonder if the British are still salty about it😅

British warriors were the kings of combat back then. Not a place on earth where the Briish Flag didn't waved and the sun never sat on Briish land. These Hawaiians people danced and were done by bullets, period! Briish won them all.

The Hawaiian Warrior societies were basically neutered by the British .

Drunk history is better and prob more accurate😂😂😂 kialaikua=nope

If I hear kameamea one more time I’m gonna lose it brah I swear.

This is why this Native American?On the mainland sees the polynesians as my brother's my brother's who's land was taken

Derka derka derka doo

Wth u guys talkin bout lol 😂 they used shark teeth weapons not stone axes 😂 almost every weapon they had was with shark teeth i worked on a real kumu hula teachers house and all the weapons she had was all shark teeth second off cuz no even use one asian guy to be a “ koa warrior “ use the braddahs who is in the court using braddahs not even with cultural tats and most of the warriors had cultural tats

So the Hawaiians were colonialists before contact with westerners. Just like the native americans. That you for pointing out FACTS.

New Zealand Maori are the same people

Love the Hawaiian flag

You should use someone of native Hawaiian ancestry to do the narration. The mispronunciation of our language is culturally insisting insulting. Auwē! Hilahila loa!

Then we got fed lies and drugs. Now it's 2024.

They got taken over

Koa - warrior, the Hawaiian word for warrior is Koa.

The koa's world's first navy seal's

Koa means warrior

Sadly NONE of these actors are Hawaiian. Very disrespectful 🤦‍♀️🙄