If you watched my previously-recommended documentary about ocean-crossing Polynesians, here is a terrific book with even more ...

Hawaii’s American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin, and many people believed Polynesian voyagers simply lucked into finding th ...

Hawaii’s American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin with lye. Many people believed Polynesian voyagers had si ...

In decades since, the society has sailed the canoe around the Pacific and world, including New Zealand, Japan, South Africa and New York. It inspired other Pacific Island communities to revive or ...

The people of the Pacific are intimately tied to the ocean. They sailed the sea hundreds of years before Europeans, using voyaging canoes crafted from island materials and stone tools. The ...

for only they had the canoes and navigational skills needed to push so far into the Pacific. The gaps between islands widen greatly in the eastern Pacific and the prevailing winds become less and ...

"The Columbia River Canoe Project," an award-winning film following cousins Robert Lester and Braxton Mitchell as they paddled from the Continental Divide to the Pacific Ocean, is now showing ...

He was just learning about how Pacific peoples had navigated the ocean, guided by constellations, to find their islands. Hōkūleʻa was the first double-hulled voyaging canoe he had seen ...