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I think we have to ask ourselves
what is the magic about this canoe?

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I've experienced some things
that are just unreal.

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Why does it bring people together?

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I assume that for Pacific Islanders
and other sailors throughout the world,

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the sailing vessel is a primary community,
cultural…thing.

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It's a very important symbol.

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It brings together the farmers,
the fishermen, the canoe builders.

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It unites and ties in the families.

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It's just that type of symbol,
and it goes beyond a symbol thing,

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it becomes a spiritual thing.

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Prior to this, prior to Nainoa,
there was never a Hawaiʻi navigator.

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And I think the last recorded-
or I could be wrong, was Moʻikeha.

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And that is almost
like a thousand years back.

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So it's a great event for our time
and our people today, now, right now.

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Well, the Hōkūleʻa cannot make a sail
without the people that back, and build,

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and the crew, and all of the people that
do the legwork and the mouthpiece.

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And so Hōkūleʻa is not only important
to just one person, or myself,

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or a small group of people.

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I think for all of Hawaiʻi.

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(Sharon Soong)
[chanting in Hawaiian]

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ʻAe, ka ʻieʻie loko

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[rhythmic playing of ipu]

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(Nani Parrilla)
[chanting in Hawaiian]

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Eia ke komo aʻe nei lā

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(Chris Conybeare)
Ancient tradition would have prohibited

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this chant and dance created and performed
by women to record and celebrate rebirth

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of the ancient way-finding skills.

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But tradition must sometimes change
in order to perpetuate underlying values.

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(Nani Parrilla)
[chanting in Hawaiian]

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No ʻāina ka makani e ala ea
Hele like o ka ʻale, e ala ea

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ʻAleʻale mai o nā leo e,
A me ʻāina ma komo pai mai e

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Ma ke kai o ka ʻieʻie loko
A ua lei hoʻi i ke ʻala mokihana

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Kaʻi pololei ma nā hōkū lā
I kēlā pai aʻe noio e

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No ʻāina ka makani, e ala ea
Hele like o ka ʻale, e ala ea

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ʻAleʻale mai o nā leo ē,
A me ʻāina ma komo pai mai ē

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Ma ke kai o ka ʻieʻie loko
A ua lei hoʻi i ke ʻala mokihana

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E ala, e ala, ea

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(Sharon Soong)
He inoa no Hōkūleʻa

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[cows mooing]

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(Chris Conybeare)
Western contact brought cattle

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to Hawaiʻi in 1792.

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And 40 years later, King Kamehameha III
imported Mexican vaqueros to handle

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the wild herds and bring cowboy skills
to island people.