I had such a great time with Family! From preparing the party till the end. The food was awesome and the people are amazing. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Nalah and to all the HECHANOVAS. So blessed to be around with these wonderful people. If I don’t have my oxy tank I would gladly to help more in the future! #theHechanovas #HBD #family #Filfam #filipinosknowshowtoparty #blessed #pacificislanders #polynesian #dancers #thankful #FILIPINO #philippines #pinay #pinoy #thevips #aloha #mahalo #luauparty #hawaiian #lei #pineapple (at Irvine, California)
Beach readers! What are you taking with you this weekend? We recommend #SeaPeople: The Puzzle of Polynesia by #ChristinaThompson, photographed here on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. @npr raves “Sea People is a roaring success.… A deeply interesting read, and at points incredibly moving.” . . . #IGreads #bookstagram #currentlyreading #Polynesia #Hawaii #Oahu #aloha #historybook #explore #oceania #polynesian #maori (at North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Yrybypw5E/?igshid=1rqhcgiors1lr
Sālote Tupou was queen regnant of Tonga in the early 1900s. She was a very tall woman at 6ft 3in and ascended the throne at the age of 18. She married Viliami Tungi, this marriage united feuding dynasties. She ensured the mapping of Tonga archeological sites which led to in depth studies of Tongan history. Sālote also wrote dance songs and love poems such as Lakalaka.
Sālote brought international recognition to Togna when attending the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in London. She was seen as an endearing figure when she rode through the streets in an open carriage happily waving in the rain.
She died in 1965 and was deeply mourned by her people. Her body rests in Tonga.
“I definitely have the eye of the tiger. I’ve fought my way to where I am and will continue to do so. I’m a hard worker - I get it from my family. We only know work. Nothing was handed to us. When I believe in something, I go after it. It’s very hard to tell me ‘no.’”
Nicole Scherzinger was born on June 29 in Honolulu, and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Her father is of Filipino descent, from Batanes Island, Philippines. Her mother has Native Hawaiian and Ukrainian ancestry. She is of Filipino, Native Hawaiian, and Ukrainian descent. While attending a performing arts high school, she won the Coca-Cola Classic Talent Contest and performed in many plays at The Actors Theatre of Louisville. She then furthered her studies majoring in theater arts at Wright State University before entering the premiere season of the WB’s television show, Popstars (2000), where she earned the role of lead vocalist in the female pop group, “Eden’s Crush”. After reaching one-hit wonder success with girl group Eden’s Crush, she signed with Interscope Records in 2003 as a member of the Pussycat Dolls, a burlesque troupe turned-recording act. Throughout a career spanning 15 years, she has sold 16 million records as a solo artist, and a further 54 million with Pussycat Dolls, making the group one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. Since her first chart entry in 2005, Scherzinger has also scored 20 top 20 hits on the UK Singles Chart. Outside of her work in the entertainment industry, Scherzinger is involved in charitable activities including her work as an ambassador for the Special Olympics. Also helping in a recent campaign to stop the building of telescopes on our sacred Mauna Kea on Hawaii. Big ups to sista @nicolescherzy
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“I keep having to pinch myself to make sure I’m actually awake. The Oscars are so big – they’re huge … I’m totally humbled and ecstatic. No words are enough to explain … it’s like, wow. It’s absolutely incredible.” - after finding out about her Academy Award nomination.
Keisha Castle-Hughes was born on 24 March 1990 in Donnybrook, Western Australia, to a Māori mother, Desrae Hughes, and Tim Castle, an Anglo-Australian father. In 2003, Castle-Hughes made her debut in the film Whale Rider, in which she played the main role of Paikea Apirana (Pai). Due to not having any previous acting experience, she went directly from her Auckland school classroom to the film set when the shoot began in New Zealand in late 2001. Castle-Hughes received widespread critical acclaim for her performance, and in 2004 she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress at the 76th Academy Awards. Although she did not win the Best Actress award (it went to Charlize Theron for Monster), at age 13 she became the youngest person nominated in this category at the time and the second Polynesian actress, after Jocelyne LaGarde, to be nominated for an Oscar. Since she made her film debut, Castle-Hughes has appeared in various films including Hey, Hey, It’s Esther Blueburger, Piece of My Heart and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. She also played the main role of the Virgin Mary in the 2006 film The Nativity Story. In 2015 she joined the cast of the HBO TV series Game of Thrones in Season 5 as Obara Sand.
The greatest Polynesian Goddess was a complex figure of whom many myths were told. Like other major divinities, She was associated with many aspects of life and had many symbols: She was the tapa-beating woman who lived in the moon; She was Great Hina, the death mother; She was a warrior queen of the Island of Women. An all-inclusive divine archetype, Hina appeared in many Polynesian legends, some of which – not surprisingly, for such a complex and long-lived Goddess – contradicted others. In some legends, Hina was said to have been created of red clay by the first man. But others – in Tahiti, for instance – knew Hina as the preeminent Goddess, for whose sexual pleasure the first man was created. This Goddess has two faces, one in front as humans do, one at the back of Her head. She was the first female being on earth, many bearing Her name. One guise Hina wore was a warrior of the Island of Women, a place where no men were allowed, where trees alone impregnated the residents. A man washed up on the shore and slept with Hina, the ageless and beautiful leader. He stayed for some time. But every time She began to show Her years, Hina went surfing and came back renewed and restored. At the same time, Her human lover gradually bowed under the years. Hina returned the man to his people on a whale, which the humans impudently and imprudently killed. The whale was Hina’s brother, and She sent terrible sufferings on the people as a result. Among all the many stories of Hina, however, probably the most commonly known one was that of the Goddess and Her lover, the eel. Living on earth as a mortal woman, Hina bathed in a quiet pool where, one day, She had intercourse with an eel. Her people, afraid of the power of the serpent, killed him, only to find that Hina had been mating with a god. Furious and despairing at having Her affair so terminated, Hina took the eel’s head and buried it. Five nights later the first coconut there, a staple product thereafter to Hina’s folk.
On this link you’ll find #435 gifs of the 23 year old (born February 17, 1999)actressErana James, who is of Tainui and Ngāti Whātua o Ōrākei ethnicity in her role as Toni Shalifoe in The Wilds Season 2.These gifs are all 250x141, textless, roleplayable, and, most importantly, made by me. Please refer to my gif pack rules for what you can and cannot use these for or in and please like and reblog if you found this helpful.
The Oahu Stake Samoan Choir posed in the 1960’s in front of the Hawaii temple. This choir was one of the several patterned after the Tabernacle Choir. The temple, dedicated November 27, 1919, is located at Laie, on the northeast shore of Oahu.
The Samoan migration to Hawaii was unique in that the Samoans did not come as plantation workers and they were the only significant group of Polynesian migrants to Hawaii. The first large group of Samoans came to Hawaii in 1919 when the Mormon temple was built in Laie on Oahu’s northeastern shore.
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