Guam voyager and canoe builder Ron Acfalle sets sail on Sunday from Palau to Taiwan on what he describes as a "calling" - a ...

A Guam voyager is making history, reviving an ancient ocean route between Micronesia and Taiwan. Guam Canoe Builder and ...

Assisted by their Micronesian teacher and advisor ... Not only has the project spawned a veritable renaissance in Hawaiian sailing canoes, but it has inspired Tahitians and New Zealand Maori ...

On a gently rocking double-hulled canoe, floating in the heavenly ... was keeping the sailing tradition alive in its Micronesian home. I will call him the Navigator. Around us lolled a listless ...

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 si ...

“The original idea of Polynesian sailing canoes was to go into the unknown over the horizon ... within the Federated States of Micronesia, had decided to ban plastic bags, leading to the creation of ...

That vessel — a double-hulled sailing canoe called the Hokulea ... but a Peace Corps volunteer on the isolated atoll of Satawal in Micronesia told them about Pius "Mau" Piailug, who had been ...

The bai was a masterpiece of Micronesian architecture ... been constructed in several villages, and traditional sailing canoes are again being built by the elders in Koror. The ancient carvings ...

Inscription in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding - 2021. Carolinian wayfinding and canoe making refers to the centuries-old tradition of building and navigating ...