How a canoe helped turn Hawaiian culture into a source of pride and even influenced Hollywood - Early crew members of the ...

A voyaging canoe built to revive the centuries-old tradition of Hawaiian exploration is circumnavigating the globe. Its crew has already traveled 26,000 miles navigating with the sun, stars and waves.

Hawaiian Canoe, 2005. For thousands of years, Native Hawaiians have traveled the Pacific in traditional voyaging canoes like the one pictured here, shown on the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.

Timi Gilliom, captain and builder of the voyaging canoe Mo‘okiha o Pi‘ilani, awoke from a midday nap in Hui O Wa’a Kaulua’s Front Street shop on Aug. 8, 2023, to the sound of a homeless ...

Captain Vancouver, when he visited the Hawaiian Islands, wrote in his logbook that he measured a canoe that was 108 feet long on the island of Kauai, and it is twice the length of our canoe ...

Hawaiian Canoe Club will go to the Hawaiian Canoe Racing Association state championship regatta in Hilo Bay on Saturday with entries in all 44 races. While the keiki division is still the heart ...

Early crew members of the voyaging canoe Hokulea have gathered in Hawaii to celebrate the vessel's 50th birthday. The Hokulea and its crews proved Polynesians settled their islands by navigating ...

A voyaging canoe built to revive the centuries-old tradition of Hawaiian exploration is circumnavigating the globe. Its crew has already traveled 26,000 miles navigating with the sun, stars and waves.

A resurgence of Hawaiian pride and identity starting in the late 1960s and 1970s set off a cultural renaissance. Artist Herb Kane began painting ancient canoes based on drawings from European ...

But a canoe launched half a century ago helped turn Hawaiian culture from a source of shame to one of pride, reviving the skill of traveling the seas by decoding the stars, waves and weather.