Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle'a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance theory people have lost the ability

people have lost the ability to dream

and despair

can Native peoples be understood as dynamic and changing while also not assuming that they belong to a present inherently shared with non-natives

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

The volume brings together two previously published novellas by Richard Wagamese

Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle'a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance theory people have lost the abilityAttuned 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