this is one of the most respectful and thorough depictions of indigenous agriculture I've ever seen online. Including history, detailing the layers of the system, letting the people tell their own story and articulate their own goals and ideas about what natural harmony, cultural sovereignty, and decolonization should be like.. absolutely well done. My heart goes out to the people of Hawai'i, and I hope they continue to make strides not just in their own land development and community goals, but also in getting autonomy, land, and respect back from the government and the people of the US.

@amillison

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Eaode. We worked really hard to tell the story in a good way. I'm glad that comes through.

@jesserigon

Жыл бұрын

Thriving is the best revenge and I applaud the Hawai'ian people that put this together. its miraculous. And the U.S is definitely no angel but it does provide military security. While that is not an excuse for abuse of a culture it is a thought the leaders of Hawai'i probably have in mind and the civilian population should as well. Im unclear what decolonization means exactly but if that means losing statehood it could be an issue for future generations of Hawai'ians because of its geographic isolation

@bengcarbonell1124

11 ай бұрын

I wish,Hope & Pray restoring Philippines by Native Filipinos can be possibly done to our Native land and to Protect the Land to bring back natural resources into its Natural Restoration just like this in Hawaii

Especially in light of the US Navy’s Red Hill fuel storage facility leak, these restorative projects are even more important. Everyone who cares about this restoration should also learn about the decades long ongoing harm being done by the US Navy to the beings, water, and land of O’ahu. ❤

@oloplyflapdar7384

Жыл бұрын

the whole Red Hill situation should be a national drama.

@famlfaxclubhouse9330

Жыл бұрын

WW3 is coming. Hawaii will be over run by military preparations, then operations, sooner than later.

@nil981

Жыл бұрын

Hawaiians need to deport all the white and non-indigenous people by force, declare independence, and start becoming heavily armed and psychotically paranoid of outside influence and invasion.

@Dowlphin

Жыл бұрын

@@oloplyflapdar7384 So many things should be but massive suppression has become normalized. Even when things are blowing in people's faces (East Palestine train disaster), there's still successful suppression efforts. Being proactive instead of reactive is a paradigm shift that needs to happen in people's minds. BTW, I also heard something I could never find more info on, about a possible corruption scheme where passenger ferries were built and then the project axed via dubious reasons so that the military could buy them for pennies and refit for their uses.

I love that last line. "If our intent is strong enough, Mother Earth is gonna help us. She gonna help us rebuild things." The determination and optimism of the folks in the video is really moving. Thank you as always Andrew. Wonderful job with this project. I hope it's not the last we hear from Hawaii

@Dowlphin

Жыл бұрын

If you strong, you can live in tent. 😁

Thank you so much Andrew for bringing this to us. There is much to learn from the indigenous people of every nation, and we need to let them teach us through examples such as this. The world needs to stop and take notice!! Thanks again!!

@BaltimoresBerzerker

Жыл бұрын

Lol all people are indigenous to somewhere

@tracy419

Жыл бұрын

​​​@@BaltimoresBerzerkeryikes, was that the best contribution to the discussion you could come up with?

@charliedaniels9479

11 ай бұрын

I stopped and took notice… Of HOW RACIST AND EXCLUSIVE these hateful native Hawaiians are against white people! How alarming! And yet, they are benefiting from the very civilization they are hating, from wearing nice clothes, nice shoes, they probably have cars, and smartphones, etc). How sad. There are kids protesting about THEIR land being disrupted. Are they wanting to go to war? What, exactly, are they wanting? Obviously not wanting to be the United States of America! Do they want to Reverse civilization into a agrarian civilization just like how Pol Pot changed Cambodia? Shall Hawaiians start killing white people and anyone who appears educated? Hey, that was in the 70’s-NOT very long ago. We don’t learn from hate, DO we?

Less golf courses, more indigenous land! Landback now!

@kanyewest2.066

Жыл бұрын

Agreed golf is a stupid sport anyways

@freespiritedblkgurl8049

Жыл бұрын

@@kanyewest2.066 it is. Soo pointless

@kylejordan2654

Жыл бұрын

@Jacob the land. The right and ability to grow their own traditional food, the right to hunt and live the way they want.

@kylejordan2654

Жыл бұрын

@Jacob yeah I was in oahu this summer it's a travesty. It's actually why I feel the way I feel. Hawaii doesn't have much of anything other than tourism and pineapples. It's too expensive to finish cattle on the island, and cattle gets shipped back to the main land, and if shipped back, processed. Some places are not meant to be heavily populated. Hawaii is one of those places.

@kanyewest2.066

Жыл бұрын

@Jacob you think people go to Hawaii to play golf? 😂 golf courses are a pain to look at , they also ruin the landscape. I don't think anyone is traveling all the way to Hawaii to play golf. On the other hand I would definitely go to Hawaii to enjoy the beutifull culture and beaches as well as sea food.

As a mahi'ai, I've been following your channel to learn about other permaculture systems and thought how cool it would be for you to see our ahupua'a systems! Mahalo for producing this video and having the kanaka 'oiwi (native people) to explain our systems to the rest of the KZread world as you uplift our culture and how it can benefit others. Mahalo piha a e malama!

@amillison

Жыл бұрын

Mahalo and that means a lot coming from you

All the blessings for Hawaii, may the land and natives be abundant and protected.

I love that you let the people speak for the majority of the video.

@charliedaniels9479

11 ай бұрын

Not me! I learned too much about the Native Hawaiians and how racist and exclusive they are! Wow

@k2a2l2

12 күн бұрын

@@charliedaniels9479😂

The gate for smaller fish to come in and larger fish to stay is so simple but awesome

Hawaiians, it is my hope that you all reclaim as much of your lands as possible. Hawaii belongs to you!!

I love the videos Andrew creates! As an architecture student they are so inspirational: I think these videos really represent outlooks into what the future of human settlements may look like: not a single video does but the combination of them do. I got so inspired I recently tried making a video about water management and how it will relate to architecture and urbanism in dry lands myself. Thanks for creating this high quality content!

@amillison

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. I do see all of the videos as a single body of work. No one video says it all but collectively they paint the picture.

@CarbonSynergyDesign

8 ай бұрын

@@amillison That is precisely why I watch them so passionately! The one about the single family home in India was particularly engaging. In my hometown harvesting rainwater is a tradition but is done on a really small scale, seeing such a layered system was fascinating. However, being aware that single family housing is inherently less sustainable than multistory buildings in terms of land use, it immediately caught my interest to think about how to apply it to those too. We had some talks about precisely this topic in the lectures held by Ferdinand Ludwig and his staff, an incredibly talented german architect who works on tree-facades and was my professor at the time, back then I didn't know your channel yet.

Deep respect for native hawaiians and kudos for wise land and water management.

We shouldnt ignore, but be inspired of the ways that our ancestors lived with nature. I remember Aboriginals of Australia also had very organised systems on how to carefully work together with the nature around them.

@user-nv5sn3tb4e

Жыл бұрын

many nations still do! it’s important to not only refer to Indigenous people and lifeways in the past tense when they still exist and are resisting colonialism and capitalism to this day.

I'm getting slightly obsessed by organic people. There's just no end to the positivity they breathe. Been watching hiker videos, gold seeking, organic builders such as Earth ships, log houses, cabins, cob houses, organic farming, off grid communities, coral farming, ocean clean up....and now Hawaiian people reclaiming their land, ways of living, values, customs & traditions and bringing innovation to a new level. Thank you for sharing this. I've had enough of the mechanical system and was about to lose faith in humanity. It's like a whole new world opening its self up.

@cory_hugs7850

Жыл бұрын

I had just posted a similar comment and seen yours right after, I’m over living un natural, tending to this beautiful place daily would feed my soul and cleanse any depression/anxiety

@alainvosselman9960

Жыл бұрын

​@@cory_hugs7850 I got lucky, my sister has a lot of land in Spain, she gave me an okay to build me an organic, recreational house. I am Belgian so it will be a great escape for several weeks a year... feels like i won the lottery. Hope to grow my own vegetables as well.

@waylonk2453

Жыл бұрын

@@alainvosselman9960 Good for you to take the land into your own hands! Watching more of Andrew Millison and taking notes will equip you with plenty of permaculture principles to integrate on your land.

@alainvosselman9960

Жыл бұрын

@@waylonk2453 Thank you i surely will ! As it is new to me i will need all the help i can get. A good thing tho that there's SO many people who've been doing this for so long and there's much knowledge available which stood the test of time and therefore is reliable.

Mahalo nui for sharing my culture with the world. May the knowledge of my ancestors bring restoration to the world 🌎

@charliedaniels9479

11 ай бұрын

You’re culture as depicted by these individuals on film is racist and exclusive.

Mahalo for spotlighting the wisdom of both ancient and modern Hawaiians and mahalo for including some of the important history that many do not know or understand! I have been so fortunate to learn these things first hand on the island of Hawaiʻi. Aloha ʻĀina 🤙❤️

It's wonderful seeing that the wisdom of living in harmony with the earth is being restored here. The world has much to learn from you. Mahalo for your labors of love.

The Ahupua’a is a treasure to the worlds culture; definitely should be added next to the UN list of GIAHS (globally important agricultural heritage systems). You already covered another one on that list, the chinampas 😉💪. Thank you for using your platform to highlight indigenous wisdom 🙏.

Really do appreciate your watershed learning video presentations available here on this platform. Watershed thinking and action is how we ought to be in right relations with the lands and waters. Thanks for your commitment to sharing watershed knowledge by good storytelling, compelling stories and graphic illustrations that aid the viewer in connecting the dots.

It's this type of work and recognition that the world requires for authentic healing.

Mahalo piha e Andrew! Thank you so much for showing our home and the wonderful things being done by those extraordinary leaders in our communities to show us the way we can live again. 🙏🏽💗🌱

I am from Guam. I noticed your playlist, Ive been looking into India too. Its one of the countries that protects their knowledge and their land and peoples. We are going thru the same thing with the US military. Peace and Love you always.

My man Andrew dropping top quality content on our heads ! Bless you, my brother. Thank you.

@amillison

Жыл бұрын

My absolute pleasure, thank you for watching!

Came to this, after hearing about the horrendous fire in Maui. God be with you all.

Thank you Andrew and the Nation of Hawaii. This made me cry, for the injustices and the renewed hope. My heart has been touched.

Wow - this was amazing! I am Canadian, and I am thrilled that I found this video. Several years ago, I went to Hawaii - Oahu. I stayed in the North Shore in Laie the second time I was there. My favorite part of being in Hawaii was the Polynesian Cultural Centre - its people, language, dancing, and food. I really felt "at home" amongst the real Hawaiian culture. You are experts in knowing about the land, Mother Earth, the weather, caring for your beautiful people, etc. It broke my heart to discover what happened to King Kamehameha many years ago, etc. I send much love, warm hugs, and prayers that you regain every inch of your precious land, etc. for all the sandwich island known as Hawaii. PS I bought a vinyl record many years ago of a famous Hawaiian singer Danny Kaleikini. It breaks my heart what has happened in Lahaina, Maui. As someone else - who posted here on your page about 7 months ago - "The World needs to stop and take notice. May you always be blessed in everything that you need! ,

I had been researching Ahupua’a for a class last semester and seeing the beginnings of its restoration on video is just amazing! Thank you so much! I will not forget this!

The taro area with the raised beds standing in water reminded me of your video in Mexico City. What you can do, if you have a village, is amazing.

Thank you for protecting the water… this was heartbreaking to learn the history… but well needed. Blessings to you.

This was a beautiful example of what regular people can do when they get their land back. Is there a possiblility of Hawaii regaining its sovereignity and nation hood? I am from Ireland so I know what a long and bitter struggle it is to regain a country stolen. Keep fighting. I hope your struggle is crowned with success. Our struggle is entering its last chapter. (I hope)

I visited Hawai'i for the first time on Dec. 31st, 2022 and left Jan. 9th, 2023. I came back completely humbled and in love with Hawai'i and its people. Thank you for making this video. Do you or anyone reading this recommend an organization or a non-profit that I could donate to to help the Hawaiian people in remaining a sovereign nation or supporting them in their permaculture endeavors? I checked out both websites but couldn't find anything specifically where I could donate. Thanks in advance!

@amillison

Жыл бұрын

Hello Sarynelli! Thank you for being so enthusiastic about supporting the Hawaiian people. Please head over to the contact page for Nation of Hawaii here: www.nationofhawaii.org/contact/ Contact them, and they will point you in the right direction! Thank you for stopping by! :)

I was so excited when I saw you posted a video that was 30 minutes long about one of the most special places in the world. It warms my heart to see the Hawaiian people's connection to their land restored, even if it is just one watershed.

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing. Not only is the content engaging and inspiring, but the production quality is great too; makes it really shareable. Thank you so much for creating this. Keep up the great work!

So amazing! I want to go live there and help day to day. What incredible knowledge and vision in such a beautiful place.

Mahalo Braddah 🤙🏽 Currently living on the mainland for college, but super thankful you posted this kind of content to educate everyone

This was a great documentary and I am moved by it. I live on Oahu, and am admittedly a PR🇵🇷 transplant from NY, but I have a heart filled with love for this place...I hope what they are doing spreads. We live on the fringe of the West Side and my son came home and said his school plans to replant the original plants back on the slopes of Makakilo in an effort to restore what was taken and messed up long ago. I'm proud of what he's doing and plan to help him as I can to do this. I'm hoping Hawai'i's government can encourage more of these projects with funding. I don't know if these guys in Waimanalo are getting any funding (I doubt they are, which makes them even more incredible), but I am hoping we can do more things like this all across Oahu.

Amazing work - there is nothing more important than this! 🇨🇦

Another amazing video! Thank you Andrew for bringing this to our attention. It is so insightful and educational. Keep doing what you're doing :)

Mahalo Nui, Thank you so much for documenting sharing, perpetuating this sacred and important knowledge!! I am so inspired and grateful to the Native Hawaiians who share their wisdom and vision for caring for the islands and the planet. You have my undying support, see you in the Lo'i =0)

Fantastic video! You are amazing, Hawaiian Nation. Thank you Andrew.

What’s taken place is so incredible. Thank you for sharing this piece and showing how people can love the earth again and restore life back. Truly there is a better way for things to be 🤎🤎🤎

Thank you, love getting a deeper look at an ahupuaa. If you get a chance to see Limahuli garden on Kauai, definitely check that out.

Wonderful. The people who say it can't be done are so often interrupted by the people who are already doing it.

This is so amazing, thank you for creating this with so many wise voices. Your videos have helped me find what i want to focus on in my career, so thank you.

❤ amazing what 28 years of loving the land can result in...inspiring....

i grew up on Oahu after leaving my homeland, Cyprus as a little girl. The island and it's peoples engrained within my soul the spirit, heart and determination that i have today to fight for Freedom and Sovereignty as women and men of the LAND and i am so honored to have been able to experience the magic that i did while i was there. i left a huge part of my heart on those islands and i would love to return one day but now we are in the fight for our lives as men and women to take back, rebuild and recreate what was stolen from us. We have a common law community here in Cyprus that is fighting the system and the ''strawman'' (fictitious name) that these entities create for us using our birth certificates as a bond to claim us living beings as their property. It is time to relearn, come together and rebuild no matter where we are from in this world. We are all an ocean of consciousness together and a force to be reckoned with!!!! With so much love, admiration, respect and positive energy to all of you in Hawaii and around the world. MAHALO for sharing what you're doing!!!!

Aloha 🌺 from northern Germany. Mahalo for your very good video. It s so good what are you doing there... Go on please! This is the way of ALOHA. Love and light - healing mother earth. 🥰🙏🌈

Never give up!!!!! Stay diligent and we support you!!

Love from An Indian student thanks from entire world to you teacher Andrew

i really felt what the guy at 01:25 said about peeps loosing their connection to Mother Earth. Peeps in cities and suburbs have an emtiness because of this loss...we all try to fill it with purchased garbage.

@Eaode

Жыл бұрын

the modern first world lifestyle is alienated from the connection we're meant to have to nature. Most of us are indoctrinated to be blind to this injustice. Hope the sentiment/realization continues to spread until the world can't ignore it any more! ^^

Incredible video, thanks to everyone who shared their knowledge with people around the world!

This was one of your best videos ever! I knew something about the occupation, but never this profound.

Good to see Bumpy, looking well. Continue on Kanaka Maoli. Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka AIna I Ka Pono.

Your videos are always very refreshing amongst all the doom and gloom going on. Amazing what the people can do when governments just get out of the way....

@jacquelinekamai7445

7 ай бұрын

And STAY out of the way😢😮😅😊🎉❤PLEASE, we got this*!*

Great job Andrew and Ohana. Your an inspiration and these Kanaka are the real deal, you’re all living legends. I feel blessed to have seen this knowledge in my lifetime. Mahalo Nui Loa 🤙🏼

I hope they are able to get ahold of the golf course and restore that too.

Andrew your videos are always amazing. Each one is better than the last and definitely worth the wait. I eagerly await the next one!

I love what your channel is showing us!

The land belongs to the natives. The beauty of the land goes hand n hand with the beauty. Of the natives. We could learn much from them.

Incredible video. Had my eyes watering at parts. I love learning, and being a student of life. Mahalo 🤙🏼🙏🏼

❤☮❤ I so appreciate your teaching and documentation of regeneration, renewal around the globe, Andrew.

Only positive things to think/say about your work. Keep it coming! Inspiring!!

This is an absolutely amazing video!!! Thank you so much

bravo on your efforts... was stationed at Kaneohe... good to see you doing this... congratulations.

In 2010 when I first stayed in one place pretty much for about 6 Mos. was in Waimanalo. Usually, other times I visited, it was the tourist section and only for a few days to a couple of weeks. In 2010, I stayed w/relatives and drove in to town for medical treatments I couldn't access from where I'm from. We ended up staying there and fell in love with the people and the place. Our cousins live there currently and we've been back a couple more times for short visits. We always say as we take that drive from the airport and come upon those mountains as you enter Waimanalo.......we're coming home. It truly was and is a very special place. ~ Ed & Irene from Guam 🌺🌴🇬🇺

Mahalo nui for educating us all about the different Wao of the Ahupua’a, and the Pu’uhonua o Waimanalo. Waimanalo was my home for 8 years and I would love to come back for a visit. E ola mau ka lahui o Hawai’i! 🙏🏼🤙

First. What a banger, right on time for fresh Andrew Millison content. My watershed is renewed.

Fantastic video! Thank you so much for highlighting the awesome restoration and forward-facing regenerative projects they're implementing.

This is so, so wonderful ! The island I live on has the same climate as Hawaii. We have the same type of fruits, vegetables and other agricultural produce. Post Covid19 has seen a sharp rise in cost of local food production and retail prices. Hope things go well as you wish. Trinidad & Tobago. West Indies.

Thank you for sharing

I'd be curious to concept how the "fog harvesters" of the Andes and Sahara would be positive in this system. Setting up collection nets above a micro portable reservoir to provide a cyclical "leverage" about "upper slope" water renewal "water battery" in a non intrusive semi portable reservoir for dryer spots or dryer portions of the year. It occurred to me that the fog catcher + reservoir system may not just benefit those living in water insecure regions but also to help watery regions for cycles of renewal and distribution as well. Fog happens pretty much on a consistent basis 24/7/365 where as rain and runoff can have fluctuating degrees of consistent predictability

@one_field

Жыл бұрын

Cool suggestion! I wonder how much temperature fluctuation they get there, though; the fog harvesting materials usually require some amount of cyclical cooling to precipitate the fog. I live in a region with extreme summertime humidity but fog harvesters don't work here because summer nights stay too warm. Maybe the high elevation of those cliffs would give them enough temperature change, though.

@one_field

Жыл бұрын

"Amdrew" ?? Bot warning.

Thank you so much Andrew for all your hard work. I've been watching your videos for a long time now and I'm so thankful that you did this video of my kanaka maoli brothers and sisters and all the hard work they're doing. 🙏

This is probably my favorite video of yours you've ever made. Sorry the algorithm decided to bury it.

@philipm3173

Жыл бұрын

"The algorithm" it's the ops

It's awesome that they uncovered the terraces (3:14). It highlights how there really used to be farming all the way back into the valley and Hawai`i really could feed itself using its own natural resources, but once the state took over they weren't allowed to use it.

Amazing work. Wow.

Loving the work they are doing for their future generations.

Always liked your vids man but seeing this one made me love you man. From Hawaii used your vids to help build up my land and now I say thanks brah.

This is what permaculture principles are based on. Our BELIEFS CREATE OUR REALITY. WE ARE FREE, WE SIDESTEP EVIL, WE CHOOSE HEALTH AND VITALITY FOR ALL.🙏💕

@charliedaniels9479

11 ай бұрын

Is the permaculture the Pol Pot culture?

@elwood212

11 ай бұрын

@@charliedaniels9479 you may want to research Pol Pot.

@charliedaniels9479

11 ай бұрын

@@elwood212 I’m well aware of pol pot, which is why I used the reference. Pol Pott’s communism was seated in racism and hate. Pot had anti-civilization position that promoted agrarianism. Pol pot wanted to create an agricultural way of life. He was never sorry for mass murder and starving his own people because the endgame was worth it. This is the Marxist Leninist ideology that carries on into our cultures. Teaching your kids to hate the white man because he is a land. Grabber is a racist ideology, not consistent with American ideals. You will hear the average American say, “this land is my land. This land is your land…”, yet the Hawaiian says “this is my land get off “.

Incredible! Thanks again for another impactful video!

Amazing video and very informative as well! Powerful to see a culture that is so close to its local nature and caring for it!

I so love seeing this, thank you ❤

Beautiful video yet again! So cool seeing the Ahapua'a getting the attention it deserves

I love this video! Really cool to see the terracing, hear the story of Hawaiian culture relating with their land. And the sluice gate, wow! Thanks for diagramming that, Andrew.

So informative. I am inspired. Thank you for this video. May the Spirit Gods of Hawai'i look upon you with great favor and bring you abundance and help you get back your rightful sovereignty as Hawai'ian Nationals.

Thanks for share this beautiful knowledge and experience prof. Millison. Best!

Loved by all who come to see. Blessings Abound

Simply beautiful, thank you for sharing

Amazing! Thanks a lot for sharing this!

Thank you , you are restoring the nature. Which is giving you back in abundance to feed your people and respect nature more.

Thank you for this presentation!

Mahalo nui loa. Hawaiian, we will never give up till we get back what was stolen. Aloha!

Bless you! ❤

Great footage. Thanks for the video! Sharing

Doing incredible work, I hope to one day be able to do work like this

God is good! His word talks about water from the rocks. We get fresh clean water from the mountains in Kentucky. When I was younger we would get clean fresh water from the Allegheny Mountain springs.

excellent documentary, Mr. Millison!

Amazing content as always

Greatful to thoze Native born who are picking up the Kuleana to malama aina - and even more greatful for the open, inclusive education on the topix. Az someOne who iz blessed to have lived only in the foothillz near the Redwoodz in Cali, & here in Hawaii nei - with 2 keiki born here - I am honoured to receive the Wizdomz of this land - although, the same mindfulness that will improve quality of Life here iz what will do the same in Pomo territory where I waz raized - az it will WorldWide. Aloha iz a Lifestyle. Mitakuye Oyasin Mahalo nui loa Muchas gracias Namaste (Each time We eat, We say Mahalo Akua, Aloha Aina)

It’s the water! These folks have a good head in their shoulders. Much aloha to them from Michigan

Going back to go forward 😎🙏 frm Aotearoa New Zealand