The Canoe Is the People
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Maori master canoe builder, Hekenukumai Busby (New Zealand)
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In 1985 a Tuhoe elder, John Rangihau was overseas. In Hawaii he met some Hawaiians thinking about sailing a canoe from Hawaii to Tahiti onto Rarotonga, but they were unsure...
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Cook Islands navigation student Te Aru Rangi Reitu (Rangi)
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I had a vision many, many years ago, with me sitting out here on the water in a canoe. Ive never told anyone this. This is the first time Im relaying this to anyone. And in...
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Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr of Te Toki Voyaging Trust
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One of the things that weve been very interested in is learning the kinds of ways of navigation that Mau Piailug has been teaching everybody. So a few of us have been lucky...
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Maori master canoe builder, Hekenukumai Busby (New Zealand)
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Since my first time in Hawaii, my friends know I build these canoes because I felt I feel a great debt for the things they have shown us. I believe without the Hawaiians a...
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Cook Islander Dorice Reid, crew member of Te Au o Tonga
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Cook Islander Dorice Reid, crew member of Te Au o Tonga on the voyage to Nuku Hiva, Te Henua Enana (Marquesas Islands) in 1995: The sky was full of birds. They were flying ...
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Cook Islands canoe builder and navigator Sir Tom Davis (Papa Tom)
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The great aspect of this ancient navigation is that the Polynesians were able to find very small atolls, isolated in the middle of the sea, with nothing around except perha...
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Cook Islander Dorice Reid, crew member of Te Au o Tonga
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Cook Islander Dorice Reid, crew member of Te Au o Tonga on the voyage to Taputapuatea Marae in 1995: We saw the birds, and we saw a whale. And we saw her go down and put he...
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Satawalese Lourdes Lepanemai sings the song of Tutu ne Naipa (Shower of Naipa)
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Satawalese Lourdes Lepanemai sings the song of Tutu ne Naipa (Shower of Naipa), which names a lot of sea life: The lady called Naipa goes to shower in Powrow on the reef. A...
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Cook Islands navigation student Kaiki Tarangi (Karl)
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You say, Whoever you are, and I know you thats the other thing, I know you, I trust you can you hold me in the palm of your hand until I get back from this voyage and hel...
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Satawalese Lourdes Lepanemai
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The first time I sailed on a canoe, I was very sick mumus. I didnt want to eat anything. I almost died of vomiting! I was sick every day!
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About The Canoe Is the People
The interactive CD-ROM, The Canoe Is the People, takes you on a voyage across the open ocean with seabirds, sea swells and stars as your guides. This unique multimedia tool honours and explores the knowledge and skills of traditional Pacific navigation.
The CD-ROM includes 70 videos, 41 stories and accounts, 40 images and diagrams, of which 11 are animated, in addition to numerous maps, photos and texts. It serves as an educational tool illustrating the vitality of indigenous knowledge, know-how, and identity in meaningful ways for Pacific communities. This CD-ROM is also available in Maori.
The Canoe Is the People: Indigenous Navigation in the Pacific is the second of a series of interactive CD-ROMs created as part of UNESCO's Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) programme. To find out more, visit: www.unesco.org/links
The interactive CD-ROM, The Canoe Is the People, takes you on a voyage across the open ocean with seabirds, sea swells and stars as your guides. This unique multimedia tool honours and explores the knowledge and skills of traditional Pacific navig...
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