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 ...

The South Pacific archipelago is quite remote and ... own boats today through the Moriori’s neighboring North Island on a 3-5-day canoe journey through forests. The Moriori's words for the ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Their own leaders have said that Kiribati—33 coral islands in an expanse ... sail in hundred-foot outrigger canoes called baurua. Such was the algebra of the Pacific. Fishermen knew the bait ...

The High School Pacific Island Cultural Arts Festival, now in its 10th year, is set for Saturday, aiming to help students reconnect with island culture.