Canhoh, Hawaii – American settlers in Hawaii once banned Hawaiian language in schools. Some native Hawaiians tried to soften their skin with a lane. Many people believe that the Polynesian Voyagers were easily clinged to find the islands flowing on the log.
But a canoe, which started half a century ago, turned the Hawaiian culture to one of the shameful sources of pride, decoding the stars, waves and weather, the skills of the sea. It will also influence Disney Blockbuster “Moana” after the ship-star Arcturus’s Hawaiian name, a double-hulled canoe-puddle called Hokulia.
To mark the anniversary, the early crew members of Hokulia gathered on Saturday to drink Mon Pacharik Hula and Kawa on Ohu Beach, where the boat began on March 8, 1975, and where they started the first training sail.
“It is a vehicle of research. It is a search vehicle, “said Naina Th OM MPson, CEO of the Polynesian Voicing Society. “As a very unique, special culture of the earth, as the Pacific Islanders, we have also been a vehicle for justice as the original Hawaiian.”
In 1980, the OM MPson became the first Hawaiian in six centuries, which navigated in Tahiti without compass or other modern devices – about 2,700 miles (4,300 kilometers).
The OM MPson, 71, recalls his grandmother’s stories, which in 1893 Hawaiian Kingdom’s U.S. Born in less than a decade after the supporting upheaval. The teachers killed him to speak Hawaiian, and his uncle tried to wash his skin with lines.
When she had children, she did not teach her Hawaiian.
“If his children tried to become Hawaiians, they would hurt in a new society,” said Th om MPson. “And so you have to be something else.”
One Resurrection of Hawaiian pride and identity Starting in the late 1960s and 1970s, a cultural Renaissance began. Artist Herb Kane began painting ancient cans based on the drawings of European researchers, and his ancestors got the idea of ​​making a double-handed canoe with the same TALL Walen, Triangular, ILS LS used hundreds of years ago.
At that time, many people accepted the imagination that the polynes had settled the islands by accident.
The Norwegian Explorer Thor Hairdahal had theoreted that the Polynesis came from South America, pushed to the west by the prevailing winds and currents. In 1947, he Set to prove it Floating from Peru on the log raft. He landed on the Tuamotu Islands north of Tahiti and wrote a best seller.
Hurdahl’s theory was caught, though the Hawaiians passed the stories of people traveling from distant countries to pay – including Kahli, are probably known today as Tahiti – by canoe, bring with them. Foody plants like UluOr breadfruit.
Ken, University of Hawaii archaeologists Ben Finnie and Honolulu Surfer Tommy Holmes want to challenge the drifting log concept. They started a polynesian trip society, intending to travel to Tahiti without modern equipment.
They needed a navigator. Traditional long-end travel skills all disappear, but the volunteer of the peace corps at the Atola Atol at Micronesia told him about Pius “Mau” Piyulg, who was taught navigation from childhood. In about a month in 1976, Piyilug guided Hokulia from Hawaii to Tahiti – about the same distance from Hawaii to California.
Some 17,000 people raised the Tahitian coastal crowd to welcome them and witness a crew member calling “our ancestor’s spaceship”.
Former Hawaii Governor. John Wihe was in the 20s at the time, and representative at the state constitutional convention of 1978. With the success of Hokulia, the representatives were encouraged to make Hawaiian an official state language, though a few residents still spoke, he said. They also made Hawaiian Affairs Office To improve the well -being of the original airs.
“He helped to trust what he was doing,” Wii said.
Today, two dozen schools have Hawaiian language immersion programs, and in census data more than 27,000 people in Hawaii and the U.S. In 34,000 people speak at home.
In 1978, a bad prepared crew came out for Tahiti in weak weather, and Hokulia capsied a few hours after leaving the port. Crew member Eddie Ikou Slip his surfboard to get help. The Coast Guard saved the canoe, but IK Ka was never found.
The traveling community lifted himself overhurely in response, determining clear goals and training requirements. The OM MPson studied the Honolulu Planetarium and spent a year under the tulism of the pilgue. In 1980, he headed to Tahiti.
The OM MPson told that he felt the responsibility of following the path of his ancestors and fulfilling the desire to “pull Tahiti out of the sea”. When Hokulia arrived there, she did not celebrate.
“I just went to a quiet, dark place and told Aid that we pulled it out of the sea,” said Th om MPson. “There are no high five. It’s very profound. ”
Since decades, the Society has made a canoe trip around the Pacific AndNew Zealand, Japan, South Africa and including New York.
It encouraged other Pacific Island communities to revive or to renew their own weighting traditions.
In Rap NuiChile – also known as Easter Island – Islanders have Began a long distance canoe trip. There is a navigation program at Guam University. “There have been similar trends in Cook Islands, French Polinesia, Samoa and Tonga,” said Mary Theres Perez Heteri, director of the Pacific Islands Development Program in the East-West Center.
“We come from very ancient societies,” said the indigenous people of Meriana Islands. “Hokulia helped us remind us of this world.”
Hokulia’s influence spread in 2016 Disney introduced “Moana,” An animated film about a 16 -year -old girl who learns wefinding about 3,000 years ago.
The OM MPson talked about the importance of weighing and cano of Pacific culture on the creative team of the movie, said Aaron Kendel, a writer who was working on the film.
Kendel, who is not a native Hawaiian, spent a year to study navigation with the Polynesian Voicing Society in the 20s, and included it in the script, learning to use his expanded hand to track Moana stars and runs his hand in the sea to experience currents.
The crew members taught animators about coconut fiber rope so that they would look exactly when Mohana was pulled on them, Candel said.
The Polynesian Travel Society’s initial plan was to go to Tahiti once, supporting a documentary, book and research papers. The OM MPson is remembered to push Hokulia’s hull in the water with the crew in 1975.
“It was really a moment – I didn’t recognize it – but this would change all,” he said.
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