WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.390 Get in, okay, ho‘omākauka. 00:00:06.390 --> 00:00:08.580 So we're all connected to the canoe 00:00:08.580 --> 00:00:11.969 because our ancestors came from the south 00:00:11.969 --> 00:00:13.950 islands or Polynesian islands called 00:00:13.950 --> 00:00:18.539 Tahiti or Marquesas by canoe. 00:00:18.539 --> 00:00:20.550 So significant are canoe, that's the way 00:00:20.550 --> 00:00:23.490 of our transportation being here and is 00:00:23.490 --> 00:00:27.810 how we had landed on these islands. 00:00:27.810 --> 00:00:29.609 We very very connected to the canoe 00:00:29.609 --> 00:00:32.300 and connected to ocean because of that reason. 00:00:35.220 --> 00:00:38.700 We call it "he moku ka wa‘a 00:00:38.700 --> 00:00:40.890 ka wa‘a he moku." There's an island in the 00:00:40.890 --> 00:00:44.190 canoe and there's a canoe in the island. 00:00:44.190 --> 00:00:47.670 And makes it very simple of sustainability 00:00:47.670 --> 00:00:51.030 and it's almost a way where our home and 00:00:51.030 --> 00:00:54.079 life coming over the ocean. 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:57.379 This is Myla, Myla is three years old 00:00:57.379 --> 00:00:59.960 and one of the reasons for kupuna 00:00:59.960 --> 00:01:03.620 like myself to have a three year old they 00:01:03.620 --> 00:01:06.100 call it today early childhood learning. 00:01:06.720 --> 00:01:10.640 Yesterday was just a living culture for us to care for the 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:14.160 youngers and making sure that they hear our chants, 00:01:14.160 --> 00:01:18.980 they see our motions and feel the ‘uhane or the 00:01:18.980 --> 00:01:21.740 spirit within our culture. 00:01:21.740 --> 00:01:24.080 SINGING: I ka moana ka moana hōhonu 00:01:24.080 --> 00:01:27.540 Pi‘i I ka lewa ka lewa nu‘u 00:01:27.540 --> 00:01:30.180 I ka hikina hae [honi honi] a ka lā. 00:01:31.720 --> 00:01:34.340 The young girls always want to love the kupuna. 00:01:35.820 --> 00:01:39.420 Say 'bye', Myla, aloha, a hui hou. 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.319 It's really important that the people of Hawai‘i 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:48.590 preserve the Hawaiian culture so we can 00:01:48.590 --> 00:01:51.470 embrace the world of who we are, what we are, 00:01:51.470 --> 00:01:53.000 what we have done, and where we're 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:55.460 going with Hawaiian culture. 00:01:56.720 --> 00:01:59.780 I know a lot of culture that is extinct now and a 00:01:59.780 --> 00:02:02.959 lot of culture don't exist and so 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:06.560 for me living my culture, practicing and 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:10.540 teaching every day, will keep my cultural in legacy. 00:02:10.700 --> 00:02:12.800 ".. three miles away from the ocean from here." 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:15.410 NOAA is a very articulate department that 00:02:15.410 --> 00:02:18.140 goes out and extends that how to care 00:02:18.140 --> 00:02:22.020 for nature and how to care for culture. 00:02:23.480 --> 00:02:27.019 So I was the volunteer of the year in 2005 00:02:27.020 --> 00:02:30.180 for the national marine sanctuary. 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:34.860 Call nā po‘e ka lani, nā po‘e moana, 00:02:34.860 --> 00:02:36.880 nā po‘e ka hōnua 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:38.720 The people of the heavens, the people of the ocean, 00:02:38.720 --> 00:02:39.680 and the people of the land, 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:41.640 we're just one big family 00:02:41.640 --> 00:02:45.440 in how we work together in preserving everything. 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:48.540 Ok guys, let's get the canoe in the water. 00:02:51.660 --> 00:02:54.640 It makes me feel great that 00:02:54.640 --> 00:02:58.840 people recognize the work that we do and I 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:01.989 credit that work, not for myself, but for 00:03:01.989 --> 00:03:05.320 everybody in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale Sanctuary 00:03:05.440 --> 00:03:06.420 here on Maui 00:03:06.430 --> 00:03:09.069 because it takes a team to do the kind 00:03:09.069 --> 00:03:12.360 of work I do, versus just myself.