Ku Kanaka Stand Tall: A Search for Hawaiian Values

Ku Kanaka Stand Tall: A Search for Hawaiian ValuesGeorge Kanahele Softcover, 529 pp. For those who are looking for a better idea of the valuable primal [Polynesian] values, Ku Kanaka Stand Tall succeeds to a great extent. In a rigorous and comprehensive volume, Kanahele carefully defines the qualities influencing the lives of pre [contact] Hawaiians, qualities that still cling todayKanahele suggests that by increasing our awareness and adopting Hawaiian values we can do more than we are currently

use of metric measurements

The Polynesians settlers brought coconut on their long voyage to Hawaii

Also included are any of the old myths and legends associated with fishing and with the fish gods of the Hawaiian pantheon

And within these stories are a multitude of dreams–as in a famous legend of the goddess Pele

wearing apparel

ʻo ia nō ʻo Ke Kiʻowai ʻo Honokawailani

while sailing with the little boy and the little boy’s father

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Adopted by a Midwestern couple in the 1950s as an infant

ma ka lā hānau piha ‘umi kumamākahi makahiki o Harry

The Hawaiian word for coconut is niu

and Kaluaʻoʻopu