Mr. Kane, a native Hawaiian BTW, said it very well in 06:01, when he said that the language of the "Polynesian" all have roots in South East Asia. Hence, the Indonesians, Micronesians, Polynesians, Madagascarians, Thai, and Filipinos are collectively known today as Austronesians.

@bubblesdelight

Жыл бұрын

They understood the language because we all spoke one language back then.

@trevs9925

10 ай бұрын

He was correct but Melanesians also have Austronesian ancestry.

Ancient seafaring are still practiced in some parts of micronesia where large distance voyaging are still a way of life. Most well known are the Satawal Islanders.

@clevelandpokaitara5642

8 жыл бұрын

Your write bro they gave navigation back to Maori and the rest of Polynesia because we had lost it. Everyone on here have good views except the hatters. But in my view as a Ngati Pāoa Maori and been told the story's Nga hau e wha the four winds we connect to all of the island's Hawai'i and Tahiti In my veiw play a really big part in the colonisation of Polynesia as does samoa and Tonga Kia Ora Whanau

@fancynika5306

8 жыл бұрын

Proud to be MicroNesian right hea!!!

@smallislandenormousculture3023

5 жыл бұрын

My people of Marshall Islands still have the navigation.One of them the most famous Stick charts are still in use.All of it is untouched by the westerners.

Fijians have adopted the art of Naval warfare through it's deployment of war canoes out on open ocean. This was evident in most old war stories. The biggest war canoe is called the Drua. They generally house 200 warriors and 40 seamen. Accompanying the Drua are canoes called the Tabilai which are on standby if they are attacked out on high seas. The Tabilai is deployed to ram into enemy ships since it's built with a bulky frontages that opens up the hull of canoes. The Tabilai ramming canoes are often accompanied by another type of canoes called the Camakau. It's a boarding canoe soon after it's being rammed by the Tabilai. This save the main army in the Drua which do battle in main land. We have other canoes like the Takia meant for fishing and the Tabakau built so that young men practice their craft of sailing before jumping up the ranks to the Drua which is biggest of them all and the canoe responsible for bringing Fijians to the Fijian Islands

Warms the heart to learn something about my ancestors. We live in a fast moving world towards a futur thats unknown but it's always choice to know that we the descendents of maui have a wonderful history that we should never forget but try to revive.

`we know the wayyyyyyy!!'

@theleagueofrandom8066

6 жыл бұрын

i looooove we know the n

Well done. Thanks for posting

i live in hawaii but am from mainland and my parents are from lebanon. i can imagine what it's like to live somewhere you know your blood had been for hundreds of years. i went to lebanon once. it was a really amazing feeling, knowing my history and i wish i lived there..even tho there is violence and poverty. hawaiians should know their history bc the feeling i have about lebanon is such a mighty feeling.

Being a grandson of a fijian chief, our legend state we traveled down the river Rufiji in Africa south of Tanzania, Apparently we were warrior who also worked as gold mines Egypt

New Zealand proud. Maori! Poly pride.

Let us austronesian people reclaim back the oceans of the world! I am from malaysia and i will do my part of increasing the awareness here. United malayo-polynesian!

@dalastkanakamaoli9058

3 жыл бұрын

Shutup we polynesians not austro

@Jonlolesio1830

Жыл бұрын

I agree

@BarHawa

11 ай бұрын

​@@Jonlolesio1830 I truly wish for a future like this

liked for saying Samoa properly :)

@rileymanuel9537

3 жыл бұрын

shut up

@sterlingwalter5971

2 жыл бұрын

@@rileymanuel9537 liked for saying Hawaii properly :)

'The 18 century brought more enlightened visitors...'????

@TheKilopoo

3 жыл бұрын

Than the previous Western visitors who didn’t care to explore or learn. Cook had intellectual curiosity and comparatively more respect for Polynesians

Is that Patrick Stewart reading as James Cook?

Verry impormative stories.👍

Captain Cook had a wonderful kind of attentive curiosity and respect for the peoples of the Pacific.

@dssfffdddss333

4 жыл бұрын

Nah he was working for the British Government. Tongans wanted him dead but thankfully the Hawai'i got his ass.

@PetrieRobert

4 жыл бұрын

@Raymond Kailiawa Yes, you have a point there. I don't mean to simplify things.

Beautiful, haunting and hope

Lets stop the blaming and embrace our heritage

Extremely well done . Mahalo

In PNG( a melanesian country), a group of people to the south of the country were great seafarers and traders.....their huge canoes are called the lagatois and were used to trade when their area experienced dry season.

Im white but damn you polynesians are fucking amazing! I hope we discover the true enterprise of your background! Plus! Good people! Maholo!

Sir Patrick Stewart! Bravo! 👏

Love this❤

@samoantoa08 said, " I already know that language is similar. Like, no duh dude. But that does not mean it is fact that Southeast asians became Polynesians" Linguistic evidence is one among many evidences that point Pacific Islanders to South East Asia. The term, Indonesian, Micronesian, Polynesian are misnomers from the Europeans. The actual term collectively is Austronesians. Look that up.

Maori And Samoans are the Polynesians that are most talked about

read the way to tahiti. its an amzing piece of work...

Awesome ingenuity and courage! Is there any evidence the ancient Polynesians made it to the American mainland?

I didn't know that the trade winds shift for part of the year. The knowledge that went into long-distance voyaging without compasses, or 'modern' navigational equipment amazes me. It is so unfortunate that the Polynesian people were cut off from this, and wonderful that they're getting it back. What would we do if our modern technology should somehow fail us? We would need the old tried and true methods of the ancient people.

Europeans had fear of the ocean because it was colder, bad weather and baron of islands, other than a few off the coast of Portugal and Africa. The Pacific was much more welcoming to humans than the Atlantic.

i wish the knowledge and history of the great seafaring race could still be used today. From madagascar all the way to easter island which is 2/3 of the world and it was done by the sea before common era Long live austronesian unity

You too thanks

I can't for the life of me think of what that reason could be. I am glad Polynesians are reclaiming their cultures and languages.

U all right roughly 81% of u all comments is true. i really do understand it, i was born and raised in our islands, it is true, i very amazed, so impressed of the truths u guys speak. i really meant it with all my heart, like i said i was born and raised in the islands, but sadly this young generations r not understanding it. we reallyx3 need to teach them. they need to know and even though we r also mixed w/african&european blood, we still need to let them know.

The only connection between Peru and the Polynesian islands is a legend about an Inca who set sail on a Balsa raft so that he could inspect his realm, he did after all own the whole world. According to the legend, he returned after four years, when his people began to give up hope of his return and on board with him were a small number of dark skinned people apparently picked up from an island along the way. I think it's possible that Thor Heyerdahl heard of that legend and made the biggest mistake of his life. I read the Kon Tiki expedition in 1970 but I never believed his claim that Peruvians took the sweet potato to the Polynesians because I knew their primitive rafts were not capable as were the double hulled canoes of the Polynesians. Peruvians were land people while Polynesians were sea people. I believe it was the Polynesian navigators who travelled to and from South America trading with the people living there, not the other way around.

..nice pic of early Auckland 9:35

There are many things we can learn from Polynesian and other Indigenous cultures. Europeans and European descendants once had our own nature based religions too, but we are quite removed from them. Everywhere I turn, it seems many people are looking to reconnect spiritually. That can only be a good thing. All the best to you.

Salam to my polynesian brothers and sisters .We are kinsman after all..I am a malay from Malaysia..

@BarHawa

11 ай бұрын

Indeed,my comment is way late but we are one

what's the name of this doc? is there more?

what island you from bro..

Thumbs up 👍 that’s a buitiful boat

We are Global African Indigenous people!! Love and Unity is the best key for us all together!!💯 Also Giving thanks to the Great Mother's/Goddesses and Great Father's/Gods and the Ancestors and Guardians!! Saying from Snefer aka Bashiyr!!👸🏿🤴🏿

I have no doubt that polynesians are the only ones who still retains the seafaring knowledge which most of us southeast asian(malay,indon,..) had lost due to modernization. The knowledge of our ancestors far surpass the technology of our time and could the fact travelling to all the island shows how brave they were. I'm malay guy and i'm pretty sure we're all related from madagascar all the way to south america. Our on race. My quest is to find out whether or not the myhtical mu continent exist

Lapita people came from Malay. Lapita were passing through and even interacted with Polynesia and Melanesia.

Us Polynesian people knew our Ocean. We know the season the time the stars the currents the repair parts the food and knowledge for long voyages. Our Vaka's will sail 4 or 5 times faster then Captain's Cooks ship. Our people had no problems getting around our highways. Maybe the Polynesians got to north and south America before Columbus....CAPTAIN COOK WAS VERY SURPRISED OF HOW FAST OUR VAKA'S WERE, He keeped quite about it when he sail back to England. Other wise the Europeans will be coming..We didnt have a written language but we talatalanoa..Dont underestimate our knowledge of our highways.

I'm just surprise poly navigators found Hawaii instead of micros but micros are polys to well mix cuz polys even sailed to our region very nice subject proud to be within these three families mela micro n poly

ALPHA BLESS MY HAWAIIAN CULTURE(POLYNESIAN) AND MY CREEK INDIAN CULTURE, IN DA NAME OF JESUS CHRIST DA SAVIOUR OF KEOLA 3X!!!! AMEN KP!!!

JUS KEEPIN IT REAL.

Amazing video and very true history. It is absolutely annoying to know that early European colonists degraded our Polynesian cultures by enforcing their own laws, making it illegal for our ancestors to speak their own language and confiscating their lands. In today's world that would not have happened but I guess, everything happens for a reason.

I 100% agree with u. read my first comment, yes, our ancestors the Native Americans settled the Islands before the Europeans and the Africans during slave trade; We as Islanders r not descendants of Europeans or Africans, but the descendants of the Native Americans; end of story;bottom line.

that's why they have coconut because every voyage that they have they bring fruits..it came from asian country like philippines,malay,indo..they called there ancestor AUSTRONESIAN then they spread every island like madagascrar,borneo,new zealand,hawaii,guam etc...LAPITA voyager.

I’m 1/4 Samoan never met anyone from Rapanui but I watch a documentary as they spoke it their native tongue I understood what they were saying - my ancestors going back 1000 never lived in America or made contact with native Americans but My DNa test results says im 5% Native American, Grandmother she is 100% Samoan and she looks Native American , body type facial feature and skin tone - if she were alive today her percentile DNA may be higher ? So my question why are people pushing it as if it is a myth that we discovered America so that Columbus can get the credit ? Present the fact stop hiding it !

From amsamoatourism . com, "Linguistic and cultural evidence suggest that the first Samoa inhabitants migrated from the West, possibly by way of Indonesia" So what were you saying again about Polynesians as a separate race [from Indonesians]? I don't think so.

@176709 I guess you didn't look thru the Austronesian language comparisons. Well, let me give it you directly instead: Tatak (Tagalog) means scratch into or painful scratch. Sounds like Tatau in Samoan. Atuhan (Bahasa) means gods/god, which really sounds like Atua in Samoan. Lima in most Malay language means the number 5 or hand, sounds familia? yup, that's right, it exactly like Samoan 5 or hand. Sepulu means ten in Bahasa, like sefulu in Samoan. Api means fire, life Afi in Samoan...need more?

@chloerose1591

6 жыл бұрын

jusitke07 This is accurate..Melanesian islands say the same

You can see nesians in Madagascar island

@670rainman Oh you're right, he won bronze medals in Summer Olympics. Gee, I wonder who defeated him to get Silver, and who got Gold. Plus, thank you for naming only one....one ;)

if you want to see the burial jar and austronesian ancestor.. you can go philippines

Malaysia,Indonesia,Philippines and Madagascar has Polynesian languages. This race of people already crossed the Indian and Pacific ocean 7000 years ago.

@jelloisme7520

9 жыл бұрын

Far East Warriors Your wrong Malaysia,Indonesia,and phillippines are part of asia and madagascar was once AfRICA

@simanjuntakgrace9492

6 жыл бұрын

So, where did Polynesians come from? Sky? They came from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines or Taiwan.

@steveboy7302

5 жыл бұрын

+Simanjuntak Grace wheres your pre european proof all the proof you have is because the white man says so

@smallislandenormousculture3023

5 жыл бұрын

steve boy dude most of the science today is accurate.Incase you haven't been watching the science community has diverse people within from all over the world.Most of these research dole are of people of color not just the whites. POLYNESIANS ARE FROM THE SOUTH EAST ASIA. Either provide counter evidence to support your claims or simply stfu and do some more studying.

@steveboy7302

5 жыл бұрын

+Psychopath either you provide evidence or shut your trap evidence is constantly being upgraded in 10 years new evidence may be found which will change the history books

now this is some good homework shit

About what specifically?

The native cook the capt.cook!

Polynesians are a part of the austronesian family. We came out of asia,but that doesnt mean we're asian. We left tens of thousands of years ago and evolved separately from the asians who live there now.

@jusitke07 Everything u said is true, add to wat u said, stories passed down from our ancestors, originally from israel to asia to america to the islands of rapa nui, and now we r also mixed with african&european blood. it just makes us more better people.

The europeans came as plunderers and pirates.Captain Cook was one of official England Royal plunderer.The man who start the devastation of Polynesian colonies

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yea thats like peter marshe's theory...not a bad theory i admit..and it answers a lot of questions

Kae Silk, blame western foods for Polynesians' modern-day obesity issues. Before the invading white man, Polynesians were a very healthy and athletic people.

@outsidechambaz

5 жыл бұрын

Michael Cooper yup change of diet and Change of lifestyle. Living more sedentary lifestyle and eating high fat food

I am glad too that we are reclaiming what is rightfully ours but it was also on a spiritual level why our ancestors were punished NOT just physically. Unfortunately, due to ignoring our religion and spiritual beliefs, pride only resulted in pain and destruction.

Our people didn't settle in Hawaii!!! Our people settled in Fiji,Tonga,Samoa & spread through out the South Pacific.

@ilaitiarakadrudru8464

5 жыл бұрын

TEE SILIFAIVA this is what I know about what I was told from my grandfathers ... I’m also very closed linked to my Tongan and Samoan cousins they say the same ... but the foreigners and so called wise westerners say we came from XYZ ... but from my understanding Fiji Tonga Samoa around couple 100’s of years ago was 1 ! Samoa , Tonga and Fijian myth but different names according to which Island canoe name , chiefs elders leading the voyage was named differently . But if you know your stories you will hear base line stories are the same . Just ask an older Tongan uncle or Samoan or Fijian you will hear the stories are similar and almost the same .

@dalastkanakamaoli9058

3 жыл бұрын

Bro? What

Before this continent disappeared, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Taxes, was one under water but when the earthquake happened and this continent dropped, all the water from these states rushes down to fill the empty space which created the pacific ocean as we know today. These large amount of water from these states made their way from the north through Arizona and that created the Grand Canyon in Arizona that we see today. Its sad most people today dont know about this lost Continent.

Hawaii😍😘

Key word there being "might".

In the Indonesian dialect Bahasa, LIMA means HANDS or 5. API means FIRE. ATUHAN means GOD(S). SEPULU means TEN. In the Samoan Languange LIMA means HANDS or 5. AFI means FIRE, ATUA means GOD, SEFULU mean 10. Need I say more...because there are more you know ;)

@djinnnpyrothemalay4501

5 жыл бұрын

Not indonesian dialect laaa...but malay dialect😁

@176709 Your not sure about the Tongans, Samoans and fijians?? First off Fijian is Melanesian not Polynesian and many Tongans are mixed with Fijians which make them darker in color. If you see light skin Tongans its because they usually dont have that Fijian (Melanesian) blood in them which makes them more Polynesian such as myself. All Polynesians started at one island and separated to the other lands. Polynesians are 1 people.

@commoner477

3 жыл бұрын

Fiji doesn't want to be counted as poly or mela anymore. You're talking without any proper research/facts, just out of skin colour. 1st of all, Fiji was 1st inhabited by polynesians near the coastal areas, this is because the oldest pottery found in fiji is of polynesian designs, it was later settled by melanesians who settled in the highlands, there was conflict so most of the polys moved to other poly islands, the rest mixed with the melanesians and produced Fijians and they stuck with the polynesian language and culture thats fiji language is similar to Tonga& maori like the numbers, the names, fijians dont speak in the melanesian language which is "tok pisin". Your royal family in Tonga has a shit load of Fijian blood in it lol. King maafu himself was a descendant of delaivugalei a great fijian Chief who's descendant was mumui of Tonga. Tongan princesses would get married To Fijian noblemen to strengthen blood ties not only in Lau but everywhere in Fiji if you do your research you'll know this is true, it was vice versa too king tupou 2 had Fijian son to the self proclaimed king of Fijis granddaughter you can search that up too! If you live in Tonga you'll see that there are Fijian cheifs mingling with the royal family today, thats because they are closely related. Anyways the point is, focus on Tonga and stop debating about Fiji, Fiji is Fiji! And they know their true roots! Instead of debating about this just try and beat fijians in rugby lol or else do proper research. Malo dox, ʻIkai fie maʻu ke tau

Because there were two races of people and the race that had the knowledge was killed out and 5hey still had the sea going ships when captain cook turned up I don't think they were made for show but there were still some white skinned people as well the leaders the same thing happened in the islands as what happened in South Africa the leaders were got rid of and the country went down hill

@malwalker2682

2 жыл бұрын

YES THAT,S WHAT THE WHITE LAND CRABBERS DID IN AOTEAROA KILLED THE LEADERS.

Just here to let you know, Moana isn't Hawaiian if you came here for her 😂

@KanakaMaoli94

7 жыл бұрын

Hit Music Yes, because she's not specifically any type of Polynesian, both she & Maui are supposed represent ALL Polynesians.

@dalastkanakamaoli9058

3 жыл бұрын

Lol we Hawaiians are polynesians to stfu you crying bitch not our fault people like Hawaiians more

we are asian descent South America aren't known for there seaworthy canoe or having long navigation voyage capability, you can see are double hull canoe *sails* are similar to asian ships *sails* also are mats weaving are similar to other asian country's in asia and mats are importunate to us they are like money. poly people made it to South America and trade with them like you say Sweet Potato & all that shit. skip to 04:50 v=w8uy8bUMonM&feature=relmfu

Why?

There are remnants of Polynesian language in the Quechua, and also in island names in Canada's NW so maybe 2,000 years ago there were people speaking Austronesian languages in America. The Polynesian Y DNA in Melanesia is a very ancient one - 11,500 years ago, so this shows an ancient point of origin, but not a stepping stone for Polynesians. Polynesian DNA in Melanesia only appears in the last 1,000 years.

1st century cushites from Ethiopia settle in Tanganyika 10th century AD about this time the fable of fijian from Tanganyika ( Chronological History man in Tanganyika)

HAWAII PEOPLE FROM MALAY ARCHIPELAGO...MALAY PEOPLE IS SAILOR AND CRUISE ANYWHERE IN PASIFIC OCEAN..AND THEY WERE STAY WHERE THEY ARRIVE..SO THAT IS WHY LOOK AT HAWAII CULTURE IS SAME WITH MALAY MALAYSIA CULTURE BASE ON THEIR TRADITIONAL DRESS

@dalastkanakamaoli9058

3 жыл бұрын

Stfu

@dalastkanakamaoli9058

3 жыл бұрын

We polynesians

shot bro, thnx for uploading

@legacy8742

3 жыл бұрын

Shut up

we come from hawaiki!!

It fable that about this the powerful chief Lutunasobasoba and his people followed the trade cross the Indian Ocean traveling south east Asia settled Fiji Island pacific

way different. Polynesians are bigger for the most part and their eyes are not as squinty.

polynesian came from austronesian ancestor..which is from philippines,taiwan,malay,indo..LAPITA

The reason this continent disappeared was because of a massive earthquake that shook the land and the whole continent dropped straight down at least a 1000 feet . Go to Google Earth and look at the rim around the pacific ocean and you will see walls that are at least 1000 feet high which tells you that the land has dropped.

@kuualoha96734 Whta is about blood?

dna should answer the question where they came to hawaii

@REDEYEDFEELiN

4 жыл бұрын

Not only thru that but also thru language. Or should I say the similarities should back it up because there are what is believed to be connections to phoenician, austronesian, Meso american etc.

Look at the Polynesian drum...canoe...

Okay and tell me something I don't know please. I already know that language is similar. Like, no duh dude. But that does not mean it is fact that Southeast asians became Polynesians. I'm not saying Polynesians are not Southeast Asian at all. I believe Polynesians are a mix, which I have my opinion on what the mix is, which I wont post on here. But what I'm trying to say is Polynesians didn't just descend from just S.E. Asians.

So over this poly, mela, micro bull. Let's just agree that we r related somehow and identify ourselves according to nationality.

It's entirely possible and far more likely that the sweet potato was just picked up from Chile when Polynesian explorers set ground there and then brought BACK to Polynesia. As for culture, attire, and customs, it could easily have been passed either way, being brought from Polynesia to South America or vice versa. If it had been the other way, the language would have remained predominantly South American throughout and slowly picked up little pieces of Asian influence as it traveled West.

Just out of curiosity, I would like to know how much of this arguing is fueled by Mormon doctrine, seeing as how LDS is a strong cultural influence on parts of Polynesia (?). Just curious.

Not the traditional Asian as you know but Austronesians. That is according to the scientists of course. All Polynesian cultures only say their great God Tagaloa made them and then made the islands for them to live on. And then other Polynesian cultures talk about how their Patriarch or Patriarchs sailed from Samoa or Tonga, or Tahiti or etc.

@samoantoa08 POOHAHA!! I'd like to see evidence of a Samoan whooping a Dane or a Sudanese when in fact both there are many Danes and Sudanese that can whoop Samoans in the Olympic games with medals. Any Gold, Silver, or Bronze medals from Samoa? I don't think so.

Maybe there was a big migration out of East Asia 8,000 years ago via the Kuroshio current to America and some colonised Hawai'i way back then. That is why there is a divergence of Polynesian Haplogroup B from American Haplogroup B. Why do the Tlingit have the same HLA Bw48 as Polynesians?? Details of this DNA shows a migration from Tlingit to Polynesia - not the reverse. It is not a simple story.

@samoantoa08 You have to state the facts like this: From yfcasiapacific . org, "First settled more than 3000 years ago, the islands of Samoa attracted a gradual migration from South East Asia." There see. Not that hard is it? If you constantly just throw out words without backing it up with facts then it's subjective comment.

@GuamKomudo That writing system can be found in the Indus Valley in India. That is known as one of the oldest civilizations in the world.. When the Europeans used their guns to slave rap and steal the Polynesian peoples land they also erased most of their ancient history so I doubt anyone can read it. If so probably a few Rapa Niu people.

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same goes for samoa there buddy..we know out culture..and as a matter of face more samoans speak samoan fluently than tongans speaking tonagn fluently

Go to google earth and look at the pacific rim and you will see that there are wall all around the rim that are at least 1000 feet high which tells you that the inner part of the pacific ocean had dropped straight down that caused by a massive earthquake.