Hawaii’s American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin, and many people believed Polynesian voyagers simply lucked into finding th ...

Everyone should spend a week paddling in a canoe, if not every year, at least once in their life. There’s no better way to get to know someone than being stuck in the same boat for days on end ...

The art of outrigger canoe surfing is an ancient Polynesian tradition, with British explorer Captain James Cook first encountering Tahitian natives riding waves in boats as early as 1777.

Kaneohe canoe club welcomes Hokulea as it arrives the shore of Kualoa Regional Park before ... Piailug guided the Hokulea from Hawai'i to Tahiti — about the same distance from Hawai'i to California.

But a canoe launched half a century ago helped turn ... Some 17,000 people thronged the Tahitian shore to greet them and witness what one crew member called “the spaceship of our ancestors.” ...