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Imaginations to -- it could have been two thousand years ago. the tahitians have this voyaging canoe. way before any other culture on the planet is exploring the deep seas. somehow gets here someplace in the south pacific, single most isolated archipelago on the planet. fast forward to captain cook and his identification of native hawaiians. you get a glimpse that these are a very productive people. theyre industrious. they were healthy, strong. and they had time for the arts. that was a large p...

What is your link? and that could have been a hundred generations. what the voyage did was a reconnection back to feeling wholesome about who you are. knowing where you come from, and who are your ancestors. so the hokulea, when it got to tahiti, it was their canoe. it wasnt our canoe, it was theirs. and, so, then it started to ignite this flame. again, symbolic, a bumper sticker, a t-shirt, start to emerge. "im proud to be hawaiian." 1987 it becomes the first language. its mandatory in the scho...

Wow, what a night in the news. see you again tomorrow, presumably it will be another one then. now its time for "the last word with lawrence odonnell." good evening, rachel. we have mary trump joining us tonight. my first question for her and she will have time to think about this, is why was your cousin donald jr. texting mark meadows instead of calling his dad on january 6th? whats going on there with that relationship? >> admit it, when you were listening liz cheney give that lit any, all t...

Its mandatory in the schools. hawaiian culture has to be taught in public schools. private schools will not have attendance if you dont teach hawaiian. >> anthony: right. >> nainoa: now its, hawaiian identity is into everything. it has to be recognized in everything. youre going to go to molokai. >> anthony: yep. >> nainoa: that community is powerful. >> anthony: when i mention to people, locals in oahu and maui, other hawaiian residents, that i was going to molokai, the response was almost alwa...

Hawaiian? >> hano-hano: hawaiian is a nationality, brah, you can be hawaiian. >> anthony: really, come on dont shit me now. >> hano-hano: they made us, they made us state, they made us. hawaiian is our blood. >> anthony: i have to be born here. this isnt, come on, this is a different story. >> hano-hano: wait a minute. i can give you the best explanation. because you cannot be our blood, our blood is kanaka, you cannot be kanaka. hawaiian is our nationality and you can pledge to be that. you see...

Here for 25 years. does it matter that its america? >> paul: no, thats a big thing, that it is america. it has elements of the third world. the nicest elements of the third world. >> anthony: right. >> paul: which is funky. theres this self-respect, this pride. theres things that dont work at all. and then its main street, usa where we are now. i mean, theres pta meetings here. they get together and watch the super bowl. and its the most main street, usa, or as much as you will find. >> anthony:...

>> anthony: while the sailing canoe the hokuela was a powerful spark for the hawaiian renaissance, this was what really set things off. beginning in 1941, and continuing into the 70s and beyond, the u.s. navy had been using the beautiful neighboring island of kahoolawe as a bombing range. you could feel the shockwaves as far away as maui and molokai. >> ritte: im proud of my hawaiian blood and nobody can tell me any different. >> anthony: people had never been happy about it, but emboldened by t...

Canoe. way before any other culture on the planet is exploring the deep seas. somehow gets here someplace in the south pacific, single most isolated archipelago on the planet. fast forward to captain cook and his identification of native hawaiian. you get a glimpse that these are very productive people. theyre industrious. they were healthy, strong. and they had time for the arts. that was a large population, more than half of what we have in hawaii today. fully sustainable because there was no ...

Created in okinawa to approximate tex-mex for home sick american gis that was then appropriated in a post-ironic way by younger generations of okinawans and japanese, and has now found its way back to hawaii, got that? >> andrew: goin right in there. >> anthony: wow. >> mark: identifying and seeing my best friends who are native hawaiian helped me to realize the pride of being from hawaii. understanding the hawaiian culture, living it. but also being very proud of being japanese. >> anthony: the...

As american as anything could possibly be. yet, it also never shed what was there before and the layers and layers that have come since. its a wonderful, tricky, conflicted, mutant hell broth in what, for lack of a better word, youd have to call paradise. >> paul: nowheres paradise. paradises dont exist. paradise is, kind of, in your head. >> anthony: wait, wait a minute. you look out your window here and you look at those hills, those mountains, all that green, that blue sky, and gem clear sea....