Hawaiian Culture: The Big Picture
Welcome to the Big Picture: our collection of videos of the wellsprings of Hawaiian culture. These give you the big picture and the back story of a culture unlike anything, anywhere. Ours is the product of many countries not just around the Pacific, but as far afield as Portugal and Puerto Rico (and now, nearly every other element in the global mix). Beneath the veneer of urban American civilization lies a local dimension, first populated by immigrants from East Asia who came to work on the sugar plantations. This layer in turn rests upon the bedrock of the ancient Hawaiians, whom some say have been here for 800 years or more, and perhaps forever. At the time of contact with the West in 1778, their numbers were somewhere between 800,000 and 1.2 million. By the time of the first census in 1850, their numbers had declined, through disease and despair, to just 45,000. Today, there are only about 7,000 pure-blooded Hawaiians. Sadly, it seems the race will soon disappear. But its traditions will be perpetuated by the quarter-million part-Hawaiians who push forward with the Hawaiian Renaissance.

E Hoomau Maua Kealoha – May our love last forever.
The Big picture

“Normalizing Hawaiian Culture on TV” (1:25:06)

“Roots and Culture” (3:28)

“Mahina” (15:00)

“Mahina” (14:15)

“Tom Martel III – Hawaiian Archaeology” (1:02:14)

“Ho’omau – Short Film” (15:24)

“Normalizing Hawaiian Culture On TV” (1:25:06)

“Hawaiian Genealogy” (29:45)

“The Holoku in Cultural Context“ (38:18)

“Moolelo no Makapuu” (6:39)

“Hawaiiana | PBS Presents” (56:47)

“Ancient Art of Holua Slide” (9:07)

“Aloha is Dying” (53:24)

“Secrets of Hawaii” (43:45)

“Aloha ‘Aina: Part 5” (7:06)

“Hawaiian Heritage” (17:45)

“Focus on Hawaiian Culture” (24:49)
pre-contact

“Tom Martel III – Hawaiian Archaeology” (1:02:14)
war, weapons, and martial arts

“Hawaiian Culture: Weapons” (6:29)


“Traditional Hawaiian Weapons” (21:05)

“Deadly Shark Tooth Weapons” (8:08)

“Lua – Hawaiian Martial Art” (2:46)

“Ancient Hawaiian Weapons” (1:25)

“Polynesian Martial Arts” (21:19)

“Hawaiian Warrior Ghost Stories” (10:33)
perspectives

“Voices of Papahanaumokuakea” (58:30)

“Normalizing Hawaiian Culture on TV” (1:25:06)
other stuff

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