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OIA Blogs: Blog of the Interior - Interior Celebrates Native Hawai’ian and Pacific Islander Communities

05/24/2021

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities make our nation more vibrant through a diversity of cultures, languages and religions. The President’s Proclamation on Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Island Heritage Month is a call to reflect, as a nation, on these communities’ monumental contributions toward building and sustaining our country, our national character and our rich heritage.

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Pacific Islander Heritage and Navigation

OIA Blogs: Pacific Islander Heritage and Navigation

05/19/2021

In the 1970’s, Master Navigator Mau Piailug from Micronesia taught Native Hawaiians the traditional Pacific Island art of traveling by canoe across the ocean without modern instruments. The Smithsonian called him “one of the most important influences in the resurgence of cultural pride in the Pacific”. 

 

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OIA Blogs: On Being First

04/19/2021

In March 2021, Nicole Yamase, a University of Hawai’i student from Pohnpei became the first Pacific Islander to descend into the Challenger Deep

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