Mau Piailug is from an atoll called Satawal in the modern state of Yap belonging to the country of the Federated States of Micronesia. The earliest recorded contact between the Yapese and westerners was recorded in the 1500s by Portuguese explorers according to the Portuguese the Yapese natives greeted them by saying "Bona sera" lmao cus the Spanish is already in. the Philippines and is passing through here sailing between Mexico and the Philippines. There was some misunderstanding and the Portuguese recorded the islands as Yap islands and "yap" ironically is the word the natives use to refer to the rudder of a canoe it isn't fixed on the canoe its held by hand. It's natural for whoever is communicating with a crew on a canoe to speak to the one holding the rudder for he is the one steering the canoe. So greetings from Yap, my great grandfather was the last Navigator in my family. He died in 1970 being a 120 years old he had full body tattoos from shoulder to his ankles, I got pictures of him. He spoke Yapese Spanish German Japanese and English(American) from the 120 years of him living through colonial powers that came through the region.
to use the stars for navigation can be taught in a short period of time to anyone, but to navigate blind by the feeling the rise and fall of your canoe......now that is an entirely different time frame...may take an eternity. Respect to Mau Piailug and our Polynesian ancestors
+Venusi tapealava there are stories of boys being raised up to be navigators. Briefly two here: As babies they would lay them in tide pools so they could feel the rhythm of the ocean. As young boys on board learning to feel the sea, their testicles would be tied to the mast; the level of attention required to feel the swells of the sea needed to be that sensitive! Check out a book called Voyagers by Herb Kane. Beautifully illustrated and written.
Incredible how one many restored the culture and power of an entire nation. what luck and fortune that Mau was able to share his knowledge and teach a new generation that can perpetuate the wisdom in righteousness!
"Perpetuate the wisdom in righteousness" yes. Very awesome. And these cultures get it. Where in america? Any culture comes to america can never perpetuate their cultural knowledge and abilities. Lost. Gone already. Sad but america is red white and blue nonsense. Hardly any traditions forget it, NO culture. Only dollar store
Oceanic navigation at its best! It's sad most people in the "polynesian" islands have lost this sacred gift due to Christianity and Western ideologies.
Naiona Thompson, Mau's protege, has sailed all over the World without a compass or map. People don't realize, the ancient Polynesians were not just sailing out and hoping to find land, they could tell by the waves/swells after very large storms that there were islands (and continents) thousands of miles away and then colonized them. The Tahitians figured out that the Marquesas, Hawaiian Islands and New Zealand, etc. existed and eventually they had a very good idea where they were and how far away they were, and off they went directly to them. Their canoes sailed faster than anything with sails until just the last few decades, and when they had to go against the winds they could paddle non-stop for days on end. This is one of the reasons the Polynesians became a race of such big and strong men.
Except maybe it was Marquesans who discovered Tahiti. Ha ha. Some artifacts in Marquesas are dated to BC. Probably Polynesians came from Samoa-Tonga and discovered Marquesas first. Then backtracked with the wind and discovered Tahiti, Tuamotus, Cook Islands.
Tagata Mao'i definitely agree with your theory. With the fleet leaving Savaii sailing East to Marquesas. Sailing back West to Rarotonga and North to Tahiti then on to Hawaii, etc, etc. Hence we Samoans are Tagata Mao'i
I'm so happy to find this video; so we can share with the world how proud we are of our culture, our fellow Pacific Islander from Satawal, an outer island of my island of Yap in Micronesia. Thank you for teaching and reminding us of who we are. RIP and Rest In the Pacific. Kammagar Mau. #Satawal #Yapese #YapIsland
Wow, such a great and wonderful video. Mau is a very humble man filled with wisdom of the Pacific Ocean, weather, land, wind, and stars harnessing them in its true value and understands how each one works together in beautiful and graceful harmony. He is truly a human treasure who will be remembered through out the worlds history.
Just an amazing documentary and people. One of the best videos on youtube in my opinion. I hope their skills are well documented so we don't lose them forever. These people are truly a cultural and scientific treasure of world wide importance.
This document prove the same story through out Tonga. I've seen it and heard it with mine own ears. Witnessing how they travel from island to island with no electronic navigator but, just using the stars and the swell of the waves. Great job with this document all around.
William Cody Yes he peacefully died in July 12 2010 in his homeland of Satawal. Before he did as we can see today his legacy still lives on.He also brought us native Micronesians to realization of how sacred this tradition is so alongside our Polynesian cousins we also strive to preserve the seafaring knowledge that is still alive and well.
Neddy Micky Yapese taught Chuuks how to navigate.Dude you people should stop taking rightful credits.How can people of chuuk be the owners of such knowledge when that nation is only 1k yes old? Dude yap is 4K.Twice as much history and culture.Gtfoh.
@Ezkill2324 Six9oneaeracode Hey dude, i mean no disrespect. I have nothing but the uptmost gratitude for this rangatira. He has helped my people rediscover the science and traditions of sailing, not to mention the art of navigation. He is amazing. I didnt know him personally, but in terms of what he has done in the Maritime world.....I think he should be acknowledged. The knowledge he possess has been shared with us Nesians, and if it weren't for him and Nainoa allowing us to journey with them on teh Moana, we may still be landlocked. Nevertheless, I reffered to him a s Papa Mau as that was how I was introduced to him....or in my case.....E te rangatira!
The navigation skills is the Pacific skills....One cannot say it only belongs to a group...It belongs to everyone who calls themselves the natives of the islands. There is always a sharing of knowledge going on...as people travel to and fro in the Pacific waters....Samoan boat builders were based in Fiji. Tonga's double hauled canoes are Fiji made as well... If you look at this sharing of resources and knowledge from a western perspective, you will not understand it....but from the Pacific perspective, it is about sharing and survival.... Everyone knows their link and their contribution to the others to help out in the travelling...There were no borders back then and everyone is free to travel in any direction for trades or strengthen traditional link.... Then the borders came....The people from lower island were suddenly imprisoned within the invisible boundary imposed on them... They were transformed from being a master of the ocean to a receiver of aids.
Absolutely agree with you Raymond we use to be able to navigate those seas like driving down the road but through colonisation suppression and slavery for some this knowledge was taking away from us people of polynesia are one people
@@palmtrees2664ruclips.net/video/o_t5yz9graM/видео.htmlsi=N1fOHPk0ImUabFei there are still polynesians who still know how to build canoes on the island of Taumako
Remarkable. Polynesian use of a water filled half coconut to provide an artificial horizon similar to the mercury used by aircraft sextants during WWII. Also that they recognised the line from center of the earth to a star passes through a unique point on the earths service at its apex. They have reed charts of these unique points that identifies the islands they sail to and from. They recognise a course following a latitude can readily be readily sailed at night with his coconut and charts. The last link can be found Sir Francis Chickchester using what he called navigation by deliberate error. Chickchester would fly Gypsy Moth east of his destination island until he comes across the destination latitude. He simply sails down the latitude home. Several positions can be found from star shots at night and sun sites during the day. the longterm swell directions are used to maintain their course. Remarkable great navigators.
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Sadly but true, even the late great navigator Mr. Mau says, like the Polynesians had lost this trait long ago so will his people " lose navigating forever" and his generation may be " the last navigators "!!! Technology and convenience has made our young generation of islanders naive and lazy. Sometimes living a simple life is far more rewarding than chasing a lucrative dream!!!!!
laumei100 There's already preservation efforts being made so it wouldn't be lost.I'm learning lots from my Marshallese kinsmen's traditional navigation and hopefully study under Mau Pailiug's sons to extend my learning of the yapese way finding.Since I'm a writer I'll start immortalizing the techniques in a book.
what a beautiful way to live one with nature they all look so happy its so good he shared his knowledge and wsdom with all his polynesian whanau what a man may he be long remembered
This video shows a perfect way of navigating using the natural features to determine the weather which would be helpful in the navigation. This shows that not only modern feature would help such as campus or GPS devices. In the Past, people have their own way of traveling skills!
These documentary is very informative and educational... i mean , perssonally i am very imprest especially the part where a navigators kowledge on kowing how to Navigate in the open ocean without instrument... too bad its getting extinct. We should revive it because its our customs and tradition. It is what we are kown as....
my number 1 dream is to do voyaging bc i wanna go voyage to pohnpei or mortlock to visit my family when ever i want to and also i wanna keep the voyaging culture alive.
Hokulea should do an Austronesian voyage all the way to Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia and so on, they been to Japan and Japan is not even Austronesian or Pacific Islanders Heritage
4 or 5 years ago Hokule'a & another canoe did a 3 year voyage where they went to Japan & traveled along those islands stopping in various ports like Singapore, Taiwan etc. They visited Australia & AoTeaRoa (New Zealand)They went to Africa & traveled up the Arabian Peninsula. Then Europe and over to North America where they stopped in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, met with the tribal people of upstate NY & Canada. Then they went down along the coast of South America, the Marquesas before heading back to home. They used no instruments. The next summer the third voyaging canoe , Hikianali'a I believe, sailed from O'ahu to California, again no instruments. We got to visit her in Sausalito & meet the crew. The voyage was called "Malama Honua". There is a lot of video of various parts of this voyage on line. RIP Papa Mau Mahalo for teaching these skills.
@3:12 "...the navigators of Satawal are the last of the nation of sailors who once settled the entire Pacific." This is not true. We have the Marshallese navigators, the Gilbertese navigators, the Chuukese navigators, and the rest of the outer islands Yapese navigators. Micronesia is a region of navigators. Satawal navigators are just one of the many Micronesian navigators.
I think they meant the last ones still practicing the art in 1976. Not really sure if there were navigators still alive from the places you mention at that time. Only two atolls I'm positive about......Satawal in Yap & Poluwat in Chuuk.
@ednak Yes we have sailors, from the Gilbert island and other other micronesian, you haven't heard about taratai voyage in 1976 from Tarawa to fiji you can search it up, and also nowadays people in all micronesia region still use it for fishing and inter Island transport, navigation is not lost we have plenty sailors, Papa mau is not the last.
Also there is a time of year when the westerly winds turn backwards towards the east. It's spoken of by the Tongans and Tahitian navigators. So sailing eastward was definitely possible. Plus, it would be a better idea to travel downwind because if you get lost, you sail backwards on your course. Proud Tongan, just saying.
The beauty of being truly alive and completely in touch with the cosmos completely shames those of us who merely exist in the modern world. We'd last but a few minutes if the satellites stopped working and the electricity ceased.
Navigation was brought to Mau Piailug and the people of Satawal by a spirit from the Marshall Islands. It was a woman actually it was also a woman in the Marshall Islands who completely changed the course of navigation history there.
I honestly don't know where online we could find this particular story but I can honestly say that the history of navigation and the stories behind them have been passed down through the generations, these are some of the stories through oral traditions the elders taught us. In the Marshall Islands it was a lady who invented the sail and taught her son how to use it the lady's name is Loktanur and her son was Irooj Laplap(paramount chief) Jabro... many generations later again it was a lady who completely changed and from the old way to a much more accurate way of pinpointing each and every island of the group by reading the stars the movement and feel of waves in the ocean to determent flow and direction of water currents or navigate. Her name was Litarmelu.
Funny how Polynesians societies are based on life aboard during a voyage . Strict order , panic , fear , disgruntled personalities has no place on board and the navigator is Lord and master of all .....
For those wondering about The condition of Micronesian navigation.It's still alive and well for both the Yapese&Marshallese seafarers.Future generations like myself are going to preserve the entire teaching of these sacred arts.Most preferably in books.We aren't one for boasting nor openly giving out to just anyone.But what Great Mau pialiug did made us delve in to wether help those better understand the ocean or not.And to share the remaining techniques(debates are still being made). Personal thought.I think the old ways should always be respected.Then again.Times have changed and eventually we Micronesian should as well and open up to showcase navigation from our homelands for the world to see.
If chuuk are not navigators why the hell did they want those 3 canoe from chuuk to come and join the festpac if they know chuukesw dont navigate doesn't make scens to me and why pollapese and pollowat raised our fucking flag on the stage we dont fuckn get it why?
Thats sad that the young people don't want to learn navigation anymore, I makes me wonder what Mau's sons do for a living now that they left the island
Before Captain Cook all of the people living on islands in the Pacific Ocean had to have skilled navigators. But there were not that many long ocean voyages among these people except for the Polynesians who were skilled enough to build and sail water craft that had the ability to withstand the wind, waves and powerful currents of the extreme environment of the wild Pacific Ocean.
Not true. I cant stand it when Polynesians are always trying to to take credit for everything. And downplaying the rest of the pacific. Ughh...sickening.
@@edwinamugunbey1741the white people divided us by calling us Polynesian, Micronesian or Melanesian, we are all the same people of the Pacific Islands
Any chance we could get closed captioning on this video? I'd like to use it in the Hawaiian History class I'm teaching in Fall 2022, but I need CC to be ADA compliant.
Fall 2022 has passed, but for anyone else - you could hand-transcribe the audio and show that transcription along with the video. (Old style). Also, one could hire an sign interpreter.
Mandy M That's one wild history I've never heard of.Will do research for it.Aren't the ancestors who migrated out from Taiwan belonging to pretty much all of SE Asia and pacific and not to just an entire group?.Study suggests we migrated as one singular people with a time span of 8k-4K years spreading throughout east Asia and the rest of pacific.Melanesians however are a lot different than us.They are the oldest.
@Kris Auakepopole Why do you leave out the micronesians? Don't you realize that the navigator in the video is a micronesian? You should also give credits to the micronesians. The video in this link (ruclips.net/video/_SdNlyiR49Y/видео.html) also documents another micronesian navigation. I could not find any videos that specifically show or document a polynesian or melanesian navigator. If you have one, can you please share? I love to watch Pacific navigation.
Culturally,linguistically,and genetically.Chuukese are Yapese.Their culture is derived from them. Yap is like twice as old by history and culture.Idk How and why Chuuk nation claim to be the owners of navigation when all their society is about warfare and chaos ancient times and modern times. You chuukese need to quit embarrassing yourselves.
I read others comments about Satawal is from Chuuk Island known as Trukese. There is two kinds of it, that are similarly named. But not the spellings. Satawal is closer to Yap Island, & Satawan is to Chuuk. So Chukese,where is Navigator P. Mau from?🤔🤔🤔
His island is close to Yap.His people genetically,Culture,&History are closely intertwined with Yapese.Chuuks Here are trying to revise history and make as though they get all the credit.When in reality their islands are the youngest to be settled.They were ruled once by Yapese. And recently some say they're of Polynesian decent lol.
Satawal was part of the chuuk island chains, to the western towards yap. Until the u.s. divide it and put under the yap territory... You guys need to go to your public library and learn!!!😃😃😃
@@fourwinds96942 If Chuukese were the keepers “knowledge and language” as some of you claim why isn’t the entire region of Micronesia speaking under a singular tongue? I respect Chuukese but some of you are just beyond comprehension when it comes to history.
I hear some phonetic proximity between the language spoken by these native people and hindi dialects. I believe the similarities end there, as both languages have nothing to do one with another....
hawaii is a island of samoa..HAWAII is name after our beautiful island of SAVAI'I in the ISLANDS OF SAMOA just like taHITI got tha UPORU FROM one of our island UPOLU in the HEART OF POLYNESIA SAMOA
The concept of Savai'i and Hawaiki is used all over polynesian, definitely not just Samoa. The name, or variations of the name, are used to describe a places geographically and spiritually. It's seen in much of West Polynesia, Rarotonga, Mangaia, Marquesas, and yes Samoa. Hawaii was named by Mo'ikeha, the navigator of the original voyagers,(disputed to say that Hawai'iloa named the island) . This was bc of the spiritual meaning. "'Eia Hawai'i, he moku, he hanaka'". Or Here is Hawai'i, the island, the person. But no, Hawai'i is not Samoa or Samoan😂
@@AC-rp4jm What sonsoftui is saying is that the concept originated in Samoa because Samoan Polynesians existed hundreds of years before Hawaiians did. Hawai'i is the younger sibling of Samoa. Polynesians took their traditions, gods and sacred names with them throughout their voyages as they populated the different islands in the South Pacific. Samoa's original and most important god was Tagaloa. In Tonga he is Tangaloa. In Aotearoa he is Tangaroa. In Rarotonga (Cook Islands) he is Tangaloa and also Tangaroa. In Tahiti he is Ta'aroa. In Hawaii he is Kanaloa. If you break up the words Hawai'i and Savai'i, they mean the exact same things....Ha(sacred)wai(water)i(in) and Sa(sacred)vai(water)i(in). Not only is there an Upolu island in Samoa, there is also a place on the Big Island called Upolu. Just 5 years ago, Polynesian DNA was indistinguishable from each other meaning that if you took a DNA test, it just said you were Polynesian because all of us Polynesians are so closely related and they couldn't distinguish Hawaiian DNA from Tongan DNA from Tahitian DNA, etc. I don't know why people are always trying to separate us. Our ancestral grandfather is Fiji, our ancestral grandmother is Asia, the land is our mother and the ocean is our father. All of the Polynesian islands are brothers and sisters. We are not separate, we are one family.
@@mommysinaseriously we are all from Adam and Eve and no they are not from Samoa they claim Hawaii not sa or Tongan or anything they claim hawaii.. now stop talking crap because we are all from Adam and Eve fullstop
I try telling people ancient polynesia street he’s from micro/Melanesia to South America and all share story’s of the land of mu/lemuria lost continent the Island of the rising sun
That's facts im from Yap where Mau is from, born and raised we have stories of a land and a people that went underwater not no ordinary people they were demi gods and master sorcerers and civilization builders we call it Sipin. They came to Yap and established a taboo system, in Hawaiian "Kapu System" The system of King Kamehameha I. Pacific island people are diverse genetically but culturally we can all call it the Kapu just like Hawaii because its the same and the English word Taboo itself came from the Maori word in New Zealand 'tapu' which is 'kapu' in Hawaiian, in Yapese 'tabgul'. same shit just like the word 'tattoo' has its origin in Maori they say 'tatau' in Maori and everywhere else in Polynesia and Yap we say 'gachau'
Thank you Papa Mau and the Micronesian people for preserving this nearly lost art. Respect from a Samoan ✊🏽
As a Tongan lost in America, this feels right to me. I need to learn this!!!
yes Kody, we all do...
I am american lost in america my friend. I need to go back to my Hawaii where sunshine and Aloha thrive💖🌴🌸☮️🌏🌺🏝 where my heart stays. Aloha
Thank you Papa Mau and the Micronesian people for preserving this nearly lost art sailing. much respect from Hawaii💯
Mahalo nui from Yap. I lived Hawaii for two years. Powerful place powerful people sad history but also rich and powerful history. Aloha
From a nation of navigators to another our deepest respect to you ,Greetings from Portugal
Mau Piailug is from an atoll called Satawal in the modern state of Yap belonging to the country of the Federated States of Micronesia. The earliest recorded contact between the Yapese and westerners was recorded in the 1500s by Portuguese explorers according to the Portuguese the Yapese natives greeted them by saying "Bona sera" lmao cus the Spanish is already in. the Philippines and is passing through here sailing between Mexico and the Philippines. There was some misunderstanding and the Portuguese recorded the islands as Yap islands and "yap" ironically is the word the natives use to refer to the rudder of a canoe it isn't fixed on the canoe its held by hand. It's natural for whoever is communicating with a crew on a canoe to speak to the one holding the rudder for he is the one steering the canoe. So greetings from Yap, my great grandfather was the last Navigator in my family. He died in 1970 being a 120 years old he had full body tattoos from shoulder to his ankles, I got pictures of him. He spoke Yapese Spanish German Japanese and English(American) from the 120 years of him living through colonial powers that came through the region.
Mahalo Papa Mau! I am finally creating a short film for Festpac and such an incredible gift you have give us here in Hawaii. WE love you!
My mind is blown . Rest easy Mau. I bet you’re having a good time up there with all the great Voyagers of the past. Legend 🤙🏾
wow, his son Sesario is now a master like him and is teaching navigation in Palau these days
to use the stars for navigation can be taught in a short period of time to anyone, but to navigate blind by the feeling the rise and fall of your canoe......now that is an entirely different time frame...may take an eternity. Respect to Mau Piailug and our Polynesian ancestors
+Venusi tapealava there are stories of boys being raised up to be navigators. Briefly two here: As babies they would lay them in tide pools so they could feel the rhythm of the ocean. As young boys on board learning to feel the sea, their testicles would be tied to the mast; the level of attention required to feel the swells of the sea needed to be that sensitive! Check out a book called Voyagers by Herb Kane. Beautifully illustrated and written.
+jaypzl thanks mate, i will hunt that book down because its quite an art there, and i'm certainly interested. Cheers
Incredible how one many restored the culture and power of an entire nation. what luck and fortune that Mau was able to share his knowledge and teach a new generation that can perpetuate the wisdom in righteousness!
Connect to all n the paths shall be revealed
"Perpetuate the wisdom in righteousness" yes. Very awesome. And these cultures get it.
Where in america? Any culture comes to america can never perpetuate their cultural knowledge and abilities. Lost. Gone already. Sad but america is red white and blue nonsense. Hardly any traditions forget it, NO culture. Only dollar store
Oceanic navigation at its best! It's sad most people in the
"polynesian" islands have lost this sacred gift due to Christianity and
Western ideologies.
This history is one of the most important Taonga in Tangata Pacifica. Separated by distance but joined by sea we are one people. Tulou whanau.
Amazing. Papa Mau was a true treasure of his culture and the world.
Naiona Thompson, Mau's protege, has sailed all over the World without a compass or map. People don't realize, the ancient Polynesians were not just sailing out and hoping to find land, they could tell by the waves/swells after very large storms that there were islands (and continents) thousands of miles away and then colonized them. The Tahitians figured out that the Marquesas, Hawaiian Islands and New Zealand, etc. existed and eventually they had a very good idea where they were and how far away they were, and off they went directly to them. Their canoes sailed faster than anything with sails until just the last few decades, and when they had to go against the winds they could paddle non-stop for days on end. This is one of the reasons the Polynesians became a race of such big and strong men.
Except maybe it was Marquesans who discovered Tahiti. Ha ha. Some artifacts in Marquesas are dated to BC. Probably Polynesians came from Samoa-Tonga and discovered Marquesas first. Then backtracked with the wind and discovered Tahiti, Tuamotus, Cook Islands.
Tagata Mao'i definitely agree with your theory. With the fleet leaving Savaii sailing East to Marquesas. Sailing back West to Rarotonga and North to Tahiti then on to Hawaii, etc, etc. Hence we Samoans are Tagata Mao'i
Lincoln Segi Yeah why do you think I got his pen name? haha..
looks like u've never sail before .
I'm so happy to find this video; so we can share with the world how proud we are of our culture, our fellow Pacific Islander from Satawal, an outer island of my island of Yap in Micronesia. Thank you for teaching and reminding us of who we are. RIP and Rest In the Pacific. Kammagar Mau. #Satawal #Yapese #YapIsland
Memorias from Onoun Island.
I loved making this film and that it still has life and is watched. That's all anyone can ask. Aloha, Sam Low
@@samlow356 Kammagar
Wow, such a great and wonderful video. Mau is a very humble man filled with wisdom of the Pacific Ocean, weather, land, wind, and stars harnessing them in its true value and understands how each one works together in beautiful and graceful harmony. He is truly a human treasure who will be remembered through out the worlds history.
pacificrules it is all of us in the pacific to keep this up poly,micro and mela
Just an amazing documentary and people. One of the best videos on youtube in my opinion. I hope their skills are well documented so we don't lose them forever. These people are truly a cultural and scientific treasure of world wide importance.
I loved making this film and that it still has life and is watched. That's all anyone can ask. Aloha, Sam Low
Love how this video has brought all pacific islanders together
Mau is to sailing as The Duke is to surfing. A true waterman.
This was worth seeing. I read about this expedition many years ago,long before computers were available. Thanks for the upload.
This is an excellent documentary that I highly recommend people watch. Thank you
I love the potters. That one lady saw those designs and was like 'HAH! Child's play! Gimme that tool.' And then she did it no problem. AH! So cool!
This document prove the same story through out Tonga. I've seen it and heard it with mine own ears. Witnessing how they travel from island to island with no electronic navigator but, just using the stars and the swell of the waves. Great job with this document all around.
Brilliant. Glad to have found it
This is such an interesting video for the people of Oceania.
Absolutely Amazing!
R.I.P Mau Piailug
He passed away??
William Cody Yes he peacefully died in July 12 2010 in his homeland of Satawal.
Before he did as we can see today his legacy still lives on.He also brought us native Micronesians to realization of how sacred this tradition is so alongside our Polynesian cousins we also strive to preserve the seafaring knowledge that is still alive and well.
@@islandguy6928 👍🏽👍🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽✌🏽
when society collapses we will need this knowledge to rebuild hopefully there be someone to teach us
This is so beautiful. Thank you Papa Mau. You are truly a taonga.
Alicia Miratana he's chuukese
What does that mean? Chuukese
Alicia Miratana The islands in Micronesia. satawal is around chuuk, the language he speaks is called chuukese.
Neddy Micky Yapese taught Chuuks how to navigate.Dude you people should stop taking rightful credits.How can people of chuuk be the owners of such knowledge when that nation is only 1k yes old? Dude yap is 4K.Twice as much history and culture.Gtfoh.
@Ezkill2324 Six9oneaeracode Hey dude, i mean no disrespect. I have nothing but the uptmost gratitude for this rangatira. He has helped my people rediscover the science and traditions of sailing, not to mention the art of navigation. He is amazing. I didnt know him personally, but in terms of what he has done in the Maritime world.....I think he should be acknowledged. The knowledge he possess has been shared with us Nesians, and if it weren't for him and Nainoa allowing us to journey with them on teh Moana, we may still be landlocked. Nevertheless, I reffered to him a s Papa Mau as that was how I was introduced to him....or in my case.....E te rangatira!
The navigation skills is the Pacific skills....One cannot say it only belongs to a group...It belongs to everyone who calls themselves the natives of the islands. There is always a sharing of knowledge going on...as people travel to and fro in the Pacific waters....Samoan boat builders were based in Fiji. Tonga's double hauled canoes are Fiji made as well...
If you look at this sharing of resources and knowledge from a western perspective, you will not understand it....but from the Pacific perspective, it is about sharing and survival....
Everyone knows their link and their contribution to the others to help out in the travelling...There were no borders back then and everyone is free to travel in any direction for trades or strengthen traditional link....
Then the borders came....The people from lower island were suddenly imprisoned within the invisible boundary imposed on them...
They were transformed from being a master of the ocean to a receiver of aids.
Absolutely agree with you Raymond we use to be able to navigate those seas like driving down the road but through colonisation suppression and slavery for some this knowledge was taking away from us people of polynesia are one people
Except all modern Pacific Islander navigation is all MICRONESIAN since all other groups lost it.
Nah...give credit where it's due.We don't care if we're related to those people.
@@palmtrees2664ruclips.net/video/o_t5yz9graM/видео.htmlsi=N1fOHPk0ImUabFei
there are still polynesians who still know how to build canoes on the island of Taumako
Remarkable. Polynesian use of a water filled half coconut to provide an artificial horizon similar to the mercury used by aircraft sextants during WWII. Also that they recognised the line from center of the earth to a star passes through a unique point on the earths service at its apex. They have reed charts of these unique points that identifies the islands they sail to and from. They recognise a course following a latitude can readily be readily sailed at night with his coconut and charts. The last link can be found Sir Francis Chickchester using what he called navigation by deliberate error. Chickchester would fly Gypsy Moth east of his destination island until he comes across the destination latitude. He simply sails down the latitude home. Several positions can be found from star shots at night and sun sites during the day. the longterm swell directions are used to maintain their course. Remarkable great navigators.
True beauty
Learnt a lot through this video. Thank you for posting.
This is the ancient knowledge of the seafaring race. Greetings from your brother, malaysia
Fa’afekai lava Mau i lou fa’aalia o le malosi ma le akamai o kakou kagaka pasefika. Malō lava le kaukai. Alofa atu mai lenei kama Samoa 🇼🇸 🇦🇸
Yes, I remember this film for sure, Sam Low and others credited at the end.
I hope they pass this knowledge down to enough people so that it doesn't vanish with time. It's very interesting!
We are Global African Indigenous people!! Love and Unity is the best key for us all together!!💯
Also Giving thanks to the Great Mother's/Goddesses and Great Father's/Gods and the Ancestors and Guardians!! Saying from Snefer aka Bashiyr!!👸🏿🤴🏿
Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic man and fantastic material!
lov the vid... thnks for sharing with us!! God bless.... RIP uncle Mau
awesome thanks for the upload! greatly enjoyed it!!
Sadly but true, even the late great navigator Mr. Mau says, like the Polynesians had lost this trait long ago so will his people " lose navigating forever" and his generation may be " the last navigators "!!! Technology and convenience has made our young generation of islanders naive and lazy. Sometimes living a simple life is far more rewarding than chasing a lucrative dream!!!!!
laumei100 There's already preservation efforts being made so it wouldn't be lost.I'm learning lots from my Marshallese kinsmen's traditional navigation and hopefully study under Mau Pailiug's sons to extend my learning of the yapese way finding.Since I'm a writer I'll start immortalizing the techniques in a book.
very proud to be Micronesian…Micronesia,Polynesia, and Melanesia we are Oceania
My Pacific brothers and sisters. Thier woman is beautiful like blue sky and sunset
It not forgotten mel thanks too I'm grateful to had watch this arohamai mihimai mihiatu
what a beautiful way to live one with nature they all look so happy its so good he shared his knowledge and wsdom with all his polynesian whanau what a man may he be long remembered
With a woman bearing 16 children, there needs to be a lot of fish. I resent the "happy natives" trope.
We lived across the street from the Thompsons in Niu Valley in the early 60’s.
This video shows a perfect way of navigating using the natural features to determine the weather which would be helpful in the navigation. This shows that not only modern feature would help such as campus or GPS devices. In the Past, people have their own way of traveling skills!
Aloha from Hungary!
great documentary, thank you!
our ancestors were wise.
These documentary is very informative and educational... i mean , perssonally i am very imprest especially the part where a navigators kowledge on kowing how to Navigate in the open ocean without instrument... too bad its getting extinct. We should revive it because its our customs and tradition. It is what we are kown as....
A true Outer Islander of Yap🤝
my number 1 dream is to do voyaging bc i wanna go voyage to pohnpei or mortlock to visit my family when ever i want to and also i wanna keep the voyaging culture alive.
A beautiful interesting film - something to be proud of x We are the Navigators of the sea xo
Nunwey is a spirit from Yap main island.
who would select a thumbs down? don't hate, appreciate.
They are apple employees
What an inspirational video
The word used, "prahu" is similar to "perahu" in Bahasa Melayu/Indonesia which means "boat."
Hard to find info about indonesian voyagers
The most resilient people on earth!!!
Amazing!
Micronesian Pride!!!
Hokulea should do an Austronesian voyage all the way to Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia and so on, they been to Japan and Japan is not even Austronesian or Pacific Islanders Heritage
4 or 5 years ago Hokule'a & another canoe did a 3 year voyage where they went to Japan & traveled along those islands stopping in various ports like Singapore, Taiwan etc. They visited Australia & AoTeaRoa (New Zealand)They went to Africa & traveled up the Arabian Peninsula. Then Europe and over to North America where they stopped in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, met with the tribal people of upstate NY & Canada. Then they went down along the coast of South America,
the Marquesas before heading back to home. They used no instruments. The next summer the third voyaging canoe , Hikianali'a I believe, sailed from O'ahu to California, again no instruments. We got to visit her in Sausalito & meet the crew. The voyage was called "Malama Honua".
There is a lot of video of various parts of this voyage on line. RIP Papa Mau Mahalo for teaching these skills.
@3:12 "...the navigators of Satawal are the last of the nation of sailors who once settled the entire Pacific." This is not true. We have the Marshallese navigators, the Gilbertese navigators, the Chuukese navigators, and the rest of the outer islands Yapese navigators. Micronesia is a region of navigators. Satawal navigators are just one of the many Micronesian navigators.
I think they meant the last ones still practicing the art in 1976. Not really sure if there were navigators still alive from the places you mention at that time. Only two atolls I'm positive about......Satawal in Yap & Poluwat in Chuuk.
@ednak Yes we have sailors, from the Gilbert island and other other micronesian, you haven't heard about taratai voyage in 1976 from Tarawa to fiji you can search it up, and also nowadays people in all micronesia region still use it for fishing and inter Island transport, navigation is not lost we have plenty sailors, Papa mau is not the last.
@@user-ez7uq4go8k there’s plenty sailors but how many just use nature? Mau was the Grand Master navigator.
Shoutout New Britain, the gateway to the Pacific 🐠🌺💚🐙💛
Aloha to great people of Polinesia !
Respect
Also there is a time of year when the westerly winds turn backwards towards the east. It's spoken of by the Tongans and Tahitian navigators. So sailing eastward was definitely possible. Plus, it would be a better idea to travel downwind because if you get lost, you sail backwards on your course. Proud Tongan, just saying.
The beauty of being truly alive and completely in touch with the cosmos completely shames those of us who merely exist in the modern world. We'd last but a few minutes if the satellites stopped working and the electricity ceased.
Is there any books or videos that document his teachings or what he taught the Hawaiians? What a powerful holder of knowledge... oral tradition
Navigation was brought to Mau Piailug and the people of Satawal by a spirit from the Marshall Islands. It was a woman actually it was also a woman in the Marshall Islands who completely changed the course of navigation history there.
Interesting, can you post where I can read of the story on this?
I honestly don't know where online we could find this particular story but I can honestly say that the history of navigation and the stories behind them have been passed down through the generations, these are some of the stories through oral traditions the elders taught us. In the Marshall Islands it was a lady who invented the sail and taught her son how to use it the lady's name is Loktanur and her son was Irooj Laplap(paramount chief) Jabro... many generations later again it was a lady who completely changed and from the old way to a much more accurate way of pinpointing each and every island of the group by reading the stars the movement and feel of waves in the ocean to determent flow and direction of water currents or navigate. Her name was Litarmelu.
Thanks, makes sense to me it's an oral history ... the legacy is very nice, will try to remember her name, Litarmelu.
Jenmajol do you have sources?
Lol, cmon really? Wanna claim credit for what they have.
Amazing documentary to watch. It is all about courage and faith. Any thing else?
Funny how Polynesians societies are based on life aboard during a voyage . Strict order , panic , fear , disgruntled personalities has no place on board and the navigator is Lord and master of all .....
What did they make the sails out of?
USP!!!! Fiji ♥
17 captains Cook descendants
Herb Kane and Sam Kaai did some heavy lifting too, no?
Yeah
Aloha Pukalani
For those wondering about The condition of Micronesian navigation.It's still alive and well for both the Yapese&Marshallese seafarers.Future generations like myself are going to preserve the entire teaching of these sacred arts.Most preferably in books.We aren't one for boasting nor openly giving out to just anyone.But what Great Mau pialiug did made us delve in to wether help those better understand the ocean or not.And to share the remaining techniques(debates are still being made).
Personal thought.I think the old ways should always be respected.Then again.Times have changed and eventually we Micronesian should as well and open up to showcase navigation from our homelands for the world to see.
Yapese and marshallese???? Booyyyy get outah here😂😂😂😂
I wanna know is there mashallese sail to Guam during the festpac what i hear and see its say chuuk yap and the others but not 👂 marshall
If chuuk are not navigators why the hell did they want those 3 canoe from chuuk to come and join the festpac if they know chuukesw dont navigate doesn't make scens to me and why pollapese and pollowat raised our fucking flag on the stage we dont fuckn get it why?
You guys stop fighting. We're all Micronesians. 😁🙂
So why did kon tiki which is clearly incorrect get so much attention but I had to search this down?😮😢
RIP Eddie Aikau
Aroha from Aotearoa
Hawai'i , Savai'i.
Thats sad that the young people don't want to learn navigation anymore, I makes me wonder what Mau's sons do for a living now that they left the island
Before Captain Cook all of the people living on islands in the Pacific Ocean had to have skilled navigators. But there were not that many long ocean voyages among these people except for the Polynesians who were skilled enough to build and sail water craft that had the ability to withstand the wind, waves and powerful currents of the extreme environment of the wild Pacific Ocean.
Not true. I cant stand it when Polynesians are always trying to to take credit for everything. And downplaying the rest of the pacific. Ughh...sickening.
@@edwinamugunbey1741the white people divided us by calling us Polynesian, Micronesian or Melanesian, we are all the same people of the Pacific Islands
Wrong.
Moana-nui-a-kiwa
Any chance we could get closed captioning on this video? I'd like to use it in the Hawaiian History class I'm teaching in Fall 2022, but I need CC to be ADA compliant.
Fall 2022 has passed, but for anyone else - you could hand-transcribe the audio and show that transcription along with the video. (Old style). Also, one could hire an sign interpreter.
Just curious, were you able to do what you wanted to do?
@@ednak I was able to get our media team to transcribe it.
The pacific islanders are the kings of the ocean call pacific so christopher Columbus can kiss our ass lol R.i.P Papa Mau
Mandy M That's one wild history I've never heard of.Will do research for it.Aren't the ancestors who migrated out from Taiwan belonging to pretty much all of SE Asia and pacific and not to just an entire group?.Study suggests we migrated as one singular people with a time span of 8k-4K years spreading throughout east Asia and the rest of pacific.Melanesians however are a lot different than us.They are the oldest.
@Kris Auakepopole Why do you leave out the micronesians? Don't you realize that the navigator in the video is a micronesian? You should also give credits to the micronesians. The video in this link (ruclips.net/video/_SdNlyiR49Y/видео.html) also documents another micronesian navigation. I could not find any videos that specifically show or document a polynesian or melanesian navigator. If you have one, can you please share? I love to watch Pacific navigation.
@@sareriteti779
ruclips.net/video/uxgUjyqN7FU/видео.htmlsi=dFnN9l6gKs8c_fxM
Polynesian Taumako
mau, is from satawal (chuuk) Micronesia. brought back an ancient art to the Poly's.
isn't satawal Yap?
Neddy Micky..yr wrong Mau Piailug is from Pollap chuuk but he lives in Yap Satawal
Culturally,linguistically,and genetically.Chuukese are Yapese.Their culture is derived from them.
Yap is like twice as old by history and culture.Idk How and why Chuuk nation claim to be the owners of navigation when all their society is about warfare and chaos ancient times and modern times.
You chuukese need to quit embarrassing yourselves.
@@smallislandenormousculture3023 nonsense 🥴🥴🥴
Would hate to move that sail/boom in a storm!
Producer and Director credits: are they here somewhere? Sam Low or not?
How do I cite this video in MLA?
Kinji Martin Presents The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific. PBS, 1983. Film.
Great video. My theory is that some Polynesians came from the east originally but also from the NE and NW.
They Came from Orchid Island Taiwan and meet the Melanesians in the south
Nope
15:48 is a Tongan song
Did some Polynesians come from Micronesia? I feel like we look the same,
Nope but have same ancestry
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If you're from Satawal, the chuukese say you're chuukese and the yapese says you're yapese you're not SATAWALESE. Dont they realise it's an insult?
I read others comments about Satawal is from Chuuk Island known as Trukese. There is two kinds of it, that are similarly named. But not the spellings. Satawal is closer to Yap Island, & Satawan is to Chuuk. So Chukese,where is Navigator P. Mau from?🤔🤔🤔
Koko Igisomar - the one closer to Yap
His island is close to Yap.His people genetically,Culture,&History are closely intertwined with Yapese.Chuuks Here are trying to revise history and make as though they get all the credit.When in reality their islands are the youngest to be settled.They were ruled once by Yapese.
And recently some say they're of Polynesian decent lol.
Satawal was part of the chuuk island chains, to the western towards yap. Until the u.s. divide it and put under the yap territory... You guys need to go to your public library and learn!!!😃😃😃
@@islandguy6928 Sorry he doesn't speak yapese, he speaks chuukese outer island accent
@@fourwinds96942 If Chuukese were the keepers “knowledge and language” as some of you claim why isn’t the entire region of Micronesia speaking under a singular tongue?
I respect Chuukese but some of you are just beyond comprehension when it comes to history.
I hear some phonetic proximity between the language spoken by these native people and hindi dialects.
I believe the similarities end there, as both languages have nothing to do one with another....
go chuukese
hawaii is a island of samoa..HAWAII is name after our beautiful island of SAVAI'I in the ISLANDS OF SAMOA just like taHITI got tha UPORU FROM one of our island UPOLU in the HEART OF POLYNESIA SAMOA
The concept of Savai'i and Hawaiki is used all over polynesian, definitely not just Samoa. The name, or variations of the name, are used to describe a places geographically and spiritually. It's seen in much of West Polynesia, Rarotonga, Mangaia, Marquesas, and yes Samoa. Hawaii was named by Mo'ikeha, the navigator of the original voyagers,(disputed to say that Hawai'iloa named the island) . This was bc of the spiritual meaning. "'Eia Hawai'i, he moku, he hanaka'". Or Here is Hawai'i, the island, the person. But no, Hawai'i is not Samoa or Samoan😂
gud try son
@@AC-rp4jm What sonsoftui is saying is that the concept originated in Samoa because Samoan Polynesians existed hundreds of years before Hawaiians did. Hawai'i is the younger sibling of Samoa. Polynesians took their traditions, gods and sacred names with them throughout their voyages as they populated the different islands in the South Pacific. Samoa's original and most important god was Tagaloa. In Tonga he is Tangaloa. In Aotearoa he is Tangaroa. In Rarotonga (Cook Islands) he is Tangaloa and also Tangaroa. In Tahiti he is Ta'aroa. In Hawaii he is Kanaloa. If you break up the words Hawai'i and Savai'i, they mean the exact same things....Ha(sacred)wai(water)i(in) and Sa(sacred)vai(water)i(in). Not only is there an Upolu island in Samoa, there is also a place on the Big Island called Upolu. Just 5 years ago, Polynesian DNA was indistinguishable from each other meaning that if you took a DNA test, it just said you were Polynesian because all of us Polynesians are so closely related and they couldn't distinguish Hawaiian DNA from Tongan DNA from Tahitian DNA, etc. I don't know why people are always trying to separate us. Our ancestral grandfather is Fiji, our ancestral grandmother is Asia, the land is our mother and the ocean is our father. All of the Polynesian islands are brothers and sisters. We are not separate, we are one family.
@@mommysinaseriously we are all from Adam and Eve and no they are not from Samoa they claim Hawaii not sa or Tongan or anything they claim hawaii.. now stop talking crap because we are all from Adam and Eve fullstop
Can anyone date this video?
Assuming you meant the voyage. First voyage, May 1976 & second voyage, Spring 1980, both sailing to same place, Tahiti.
@@ednak Thank You! Wish I could have been taught this info by these men. I love sailing.
He speaks chuukese
thank you for the info
I try telling people ancient polynesia street he’s from micro/Melanesia to South America and all share story’s of the land of mu/lemuria lost continent the Island of the rising sun
That's facts im from Yap where Mau is from, born and raised we have stories of a land and a people that went underwater not no ordinary people they were demi gods and master sorcerers and civilization builders we call it Sipin. They came to Yap and established a taboo system, in Hawaiian "Kapu System" The system of King Kamehameha I. Pacific island people are diverse genetically but culturally we can all call it the Kapu just like Hawaii because its the same and the English word Taboo itself came from the Maori word in New Zealand 'tapu' which is 'kapu' in Hawaiian, in Yapese 'tabgul'. same shit just like the word 'tattoo' has its origin in Maori they say 'tatau' in Maori and everywhere else in Polynesia and Yap we say 'gachau'