Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle'a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance theory and despair

and despair

Minnesota communities struggle with some of the nation’s worst racial disparities

when Agnes DeWitt removes her clothing to enter the music of a particular composer

Staples debuts a tender

and these poems illuminate the vital place of the author's tribe both in the past and within the contemporary world

Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle'a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance theory and despairAttuned to a world of natural signsthe stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swellsPolynesian explorers navigated for thousands of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against prevailing winds and currents aboard powerful double canoes to settle the vast Pacific Ocean. And they did this when Greek mariners still hugged the coast of an inland sea, and Europe was populated by stone age farmers. Yet by the turn of the twentieth century, this