The Maori have the haka, but people seem to not realize all Polynesians have our own version, Hawaiians have ha’a. Polynesians are literally the same people who got off the canoe at different stops. It’s really not about introducing or sharing different cultures, it’s about seeing how time and distance has caused our one shared culture to result in slightly different practices, some practices that we lost to some but still practiced by others and the changes that occurred in our languages, partly by time and distance and partly by settler colonizers… unfortunately.
The Maori have the haka, but people seem to not realize all Polynesians have our own version, Hawaiians have ha’a.
Polynesians are literally the same people who got off the canoe at different stops.
It’s really not about introducing or sharing different cultures, it’s about seeing how time and distance has caused our one shared culture to result in slightly different practices, some practices that we lost to some but still practiced by others and the changes that occurred in our languages, partly by time and distance and partly by settler colonizers… unfortunately.