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Videos of Niihau and the Leeward Islands

Videos of Niihau and the Leeward Islands

Welcome to our collection of videos of Niihau and the Leeward Islands. Niihau offers an ironic answer to the question of whether there’s still room in Hawai’i for the Hawaiian. (After all, more Hawaiians now live outside of Hawai’i than inside it.) Its remnant of the Hawaiian way of life is deliberately isolated so that the private island’s only contact with the outside world is the occasional boat from Kauai, for locals only. Is the traditional Hawaiian way of life so vulnerable and supremely ill suited to the modern day and age that it cannot stand the light of day? Niihau is the last purely Hawaiian community, hanging on like a diorama in a museum, imparting its message that much as we celebrate the Hawaiian way of life, we have not accepted it and made room for it throughout our community. The lesson of diversity in the history of the American experiment is that either we embrace our differences and benefit from them, or we allow ourselves to be overcome by those differences and impoverished.

U`a mau ke ia o ka aina i ka pono – The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.

“America’s Secret Island Where Money Doesn’t Exist” (5:41)

“Style Local: Beauty of Niihau Shells” (2:58)

“For Over 150 Years Nobody Dared to Visit This Hawaiian Island… “ (15:37)

“Johnston Atoll: Island of the Cold War” (16:33)

“Lehua Island Restoration Project 2017 – Documentary” (28:33)

“Makahonu – Beloved Tutu From Niihau – 1870” (28:11)

“Making a Ni’ihau Shell Lai – Part 2” (8:26)

“Mana Wahine – Niihau Language” (3:55)

“Mysteries of Hawaii: The True History of Ni’ihau” (28:58)

“Niihau” (8:49)

“Niihau: Hawaii’s Forbidden Island & Rare Tour, Part 1” (13:53)

“Niihau: Hawaii’s Forbidden Island & Rare Tour, Part 2” (14:15)

“Niihau, Hawaii – Is It Really Off Limits?” (7:12)

“Niihau 2004 – Malama Ka Aina” (17:06)

“Niihauans at Kauai Museum” (19:00)

“Northwestern Hawaiian Islands” (1:53)

“Papahanaumokuakea: Marine National Monument” (0:54)

“Papahanaumokuakea Marine Historical Monument: Where Nature and Culture Are One” (8:27)

“People on This Island Disappeared. Here’s Why”

“Snorkeling Off Niihau at Lehua Crater” (0:58)

“The Forbidden Island: Niihau, Hawaii” (1:26)

“The Most Remote Place in America: Midway Island” (7:36)

“Video Stories: Voyage to Nihoa – Science at Sea” (4:35)

“Visiting the Forbidden Island of Niihau from Kauai in 2022” (6:30)

“Why Has This Hawaiian Island Been Closed to Visitors For Over a Hundred Years?” (8:34)

“WW2 Japanese Pilot v. 182 Hawaiian islanders” (8:52)

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