Since then, Hokulea has voyaged across the Pacific and around the world, reaching places like New Zealand, Japan, South ...

Artist Herb Kane began painting ancient canoes based on drawings ... and the importance of canoes to Pacific culture, said Aaron Kandell, a Hawaii-born writer who worked on the movie.

Hawaii’s American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin with lye. Many people believed Polynesian voyagers had simply lucked into ...