Fola'osi - Kanokupolu performance for King George Tupou V

The lakalaka is a dance form that accompanies poetry. The arm movements are graceful and intricate, deriving their distinctive character from the rotation of the lower arm.
The men do one set of virile movements while the women do another set of very graceful movements.The movements dramatize the poetry.
The high ranking dancers are the vahenga (male and female) in the middle of the front row, usually being members or descendants of the Royal Family or the Lord of the town.
The Tu'i Kanokupolu,who is currently His Majesty King George Tupou V, is the sovereign of Tonga and traditionally, his seat is in the village of Kanokupolu, in the western part of Tongatapu, from which hail the performers of this dance.
Well known as the Fola'osi, a reference to their tapa costume, the lyrics of this lakalaka is titled "Fasi 'ae Ngalu" and were composed by Her Late Majesty Queen Salote Tupou III, which describe the origin of Ngata, the first Tu'i Kanokupolu line of Kings.
The vahenga is HRH Princess Angelika Latufuipeka Halaevalu Mata'aho Napua-o-ka-Lani Tuku'aho & the Hon. Siosifa.
Malo and enjoy:-)
Footage by Patisi:-)

[@FobDee]

@ffpl01 Excuse me? I'm Samoan and I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to witness such beautiful performances from Tonga. Do NOT stereotype us Samoans all into one category because you get idiots who discriminate against Tongans on their videos. Just because some do, doesn't mean all of us do. Grow up.

[@aloitalauA]

Malieeee Latufuipeka Tuku’aho❤️🙏 Malieeee Pilinisi ‘Ulukalala ❤️🙏 Malieeee Pilinisi ATA❤️🙏 Malieeee HRH Crown Prince Tupouto’a‘Ulukalala Lavaka Matangi A Vuna ❤️🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙏

[@killabizilltonga4618]

Traditions of the my Tonga people that I am proud of and will always treasure in my heart!

[@aloitalauakauola5752]

hoihoifua Pilinisesi Angelika malie Pilinisi‘Ulukalala auataaa 👏👏👏❤️malieee fkpale a Pilinisesi Siulikutapu auataaa

[@iBall5]

Man I wanna go back to Tonga and trace my lineage. I know its gonna be hard because Im fijian and only my paternal grandmother was tongan. I know nothing of her except that they lived in Nayau, Lau, Fiji

[@aloitalauA]

❤Auataaa fkholovakai

[@aloitalauakauola5752]

Malieeee 'Ulukalala, Latufuipeka

[@melsmary]

Malie Takai Si'i :)) CHOO HOO!! Kanokupolu has a very distict way of dancing....so PROUD to repp my Father's Village and this well-known Tongan Tradition* MALIE!!

[@aloitalauA]

malieeeee 'Ulukalala

[@ThePULIGI]

Malie - Faafetai Lava!

[@aloitalauA]

❤❤❤❤Auataaaa

[@lisiatew]

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing these videos patisi :)

[@moefiki9901]

Beauti... Ofa mei Tuamasanga Upolu

[@patisi]

Thankyou.. Glad you enjoyed the clip...

[@huikavapalangi]

good vid, thanks for posting and sharing..

[@juliepahulu9166]

Omg all these comments hilarious come on people your comments are killing the video, who cares about the past its not going to save you in present or future! Tokouso!!! Bloody maumataimi arguments lmaao Peace

[@laimaniderek3196]

Your right👏👏

[@Sikiviu]

TUI TONGA HAD A SYSTEM THAT WORKED FOR 1000S OF YEARS BEFORE TUIKANOKUPOLU...WE HAD EVERYTHING...HA'A THIS AND HA'A THAT TO PERFORM VARIOUS TASKS...AND WE STILL HAVE IT TO THIS DAY....LOOK AT NOW.....NOW...THE PRESENCE....ITS THE PROOOOOOF LMFAOO...THE ONLY INFLUENCE ME AND YOU HAVE IN INFLUENCING ANYTHING AS HA'A MOANS...IS HOW GOOD WE SERVE OUR MASTERS...YOU IOSEFA IN SERVING AMERICA AND NEW ZEALAND...ME IN SERVING MY FAHU THE KING....WE AS SAMOANS ARE NOTHING MORE FOR WE'RE SLAVES FOREVER

[@Sikiviu]

ONLY THROUGH THE LOVE OF NGATA FOR HIS MOTHER ARE WE HA'A MOANS FORTUNATE TO SERVE OUR FAHU TO THIS DAY...IF WE HA'A MOANS INFLUENCE ANYTHING...ITS ONLY AT THE DISCRETION OF OUR FAHU AND HIS REMEMBRANCE AND LOVE FOR HIS MOTHER IN PULOTU... WE HA'A MOANS IN TONGA.. HUMBLE OURSELVES AND HONOR THOSE TIES WITH SERVICE...THAT HUMILITY IS A TONGAN TRAIT, THEYRE QUIET AND LET THEIR PRESENCE SPEAKS FOR THEMSELVES...TOHUIA AS AN OFFERING...ENSLAVED US TO FOREVER SERVE...LIKE YOU TO NZ DOLLARS & OBAMA HAH

[@tagaloasroyallinesheartofp3478]

Siki viu Tui Manu'a Tui Atua Tui A'Ana is still higher, yous only ruled Savai'I but not upolu and Tui Manu'a

[@TongaHou]

Tonga is the Last and Remaining Monarchy in th South Pacific ,.

[@patisi]

No worries, you all are most welcome.

[@aloitalauakauola5752]

Malieeeee ATA

[@vaipato]

The Monarchy has allowed every family to own their own land (free), education, free medical health services, etc. As well as kept Tonga for Tonga by Tonga. No non-Tongan can own land in Tonga. That's why Tonga has the most College BA, PHD, and MA per capita in all of the South Pacific. Yes, some of his policies may seem greed but until you go Tonga and are Tongan, you won't understand the whole scope. Mostly the lazy and free loaders in Tonga that are complaining just like any other race!!

[@tmmtdm6293]

❤️

[@haynkekaiboi808]

MALIE!

[@Sikiviu]

And one more parting word specifically for SacTownUfa..... Kefe (SIKIVIU LAUGHS AGAIN AT MAHINA'S SUBJECTS)

[@aloitalauakauola5752]

malieee Pilinisi 'Ulukalala tue tue tueee auataaa Pilinesi Latufuipeka malie Pilinisi Ata fkfeta'i fkholomamata tue tue tueeee

[@Sikiviu]

Tohuia Lemapo is Samoan YES...part Safata part Manono...GRADE SCHOOL STUFF, THAT WAS A CONTINUATION OF SAMOAN TAUPOU OFFERINGS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER TO TONGAN KINGS AND NOBLES, FROM YOUR HIGHEST TAFAIFA SALAMASINA TO NOW ALAILEULA LMFAOO.....AKAUOLA WAS TOHUIA'S BROTHER AS PER OUR CUSTOMS HE WAS PART OF HER DOWRY TO SERVE HER AND HER HOUSE AND HES STILL AT IT TODAY LMAOO..LIKE ROMANS WE CONSOLIDATE OUR POWER THROUGH INCLUSION OF ALL OUR SUBJECTS TRAITS.. THATS WHAT GREAT EMPIRES DO LMFAOO...

[@osotoron]

King George Tupou V: Believe in Jesus Christ and be saved you and your house (Acts 16:31 Your Bible)

[@Sikiviu]

MU'A, TONGATABU WAS THE FRONT AND CENTER OF OUR EMPIRE...located there were slave's quarters called 'A-LELE (awake and run) , it was for Ha'amoans (Samoans)...named so by Tongan taskmasters who expect Samoans to be up in the morning and run in serving and performing tasks...the area was named Tatakamotonga (Congregate with Tongans) as a sarcastic reminder of Samoans plight of those days in congregating with Tongans....ironically the Noble who owns Tatakamotonga now is HSH Tungi ..Alaileula's son

[@27531]

Tui Manu'a was the first ever empire way before Tui Tonga was even heard of. Tui Manu' a was the Samoan empire who ruled the pacific and even Ruled tonga in the earlier days. Tui Tonga was only Made up of the Tui Manu'a (Tongans and samoans) Hence the king Kanokupolu from Upolu Samoa!

[@oatztui4183]

If only a Palagi was doing the recording """hoooooiiiiiiiiiiiii'''''''

[@izzme22]

If only a palangi LOL wow love how you put down the brown skin camera man/woman and lift up the white culture. Palangi lady can film better because she's white and brown is a coconut aye nice call.

[@Sikiviu]

IM ASHAME FOR REAL...CAUSE ALL TONGAN KNOW THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF EACH HA'A = CLAN... IM FROM TE'EKIU = FUEKAFA A UPOLU = MOTU'APAKA IS MY UNCLE, YOU KNOW WHY WE DONT USUALLY TALK ABOUT THE HA'AMOA IN US? CAUSE WE KNOW WHAT AND WHO WE ARE, WE AS DESCENDANTS OF TOHUIA'S BROTHERS WERE OFFERED....OFFERED AS A DOWRY (SLAVES), TO SERVE OUR SISTER'S SON WHO IS OUR FAHU, AND WE STILL SERVE TO THIS DAY, YOU NEED TO LEARN AND KNOW THAT BEFORE YOU PUT YOUR ASSPRIDE BEFORE YOUR BRAIN, NOT WARRIORS, SERVER

[@Sikiviu]

im Samoan....my people still stuck in the 10th century...as in...still enslaved....only this time by the superior nations of Amerika and New Zealand....in amerika samoa we r let by tat sweet soul nika who wont allow us to vote for him as we're considered not equal to the mainland nikkas....in western samoa we r let by not even a nika...noone....we dont know who the real malietoa nikka is n we fightin in court to find out....they all mixed n startn to look like a filipina...lord be with us..alofa

[@Deadpool-jv4pq]

I say youre enslaved by your stone age religion.

[@tagaloasroyallinesheartofp3478]

Siki viu wrong the Tui Manu'a title is higher then honorable Malietoa stop lying, you don't know anything the Tu'I Tonga kings are only consisted of one royal line, Samoa has three 1 Tui Manu'a head 2 Tui Atua 3 Tui A'Ana so please get outta here you idiot go tell your parents they know the truth**

[@Sikiviu]

I COMMEND YOU KASELE...FOR KNOWING OUR HISTORY LMFAOO...BUT ITS A SHAME THAT NO TONGANS KNOW MUCH OF HA'A MOA LMAOOO....THINK ABOUT THAT...EVERYBODY IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC KNOW ABOUT US TONGANS....NAMES OF OUR KINGS AND SUCH.. BUT WE DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT ANYBODY ELSE....ITS BECAUSE TONGAN KINGS AND OUR EMPIRE WERE EVERYWHERE...THINGS WERE IMPORTED IN TO TONGA AND WE WERE RICH WITH OTHER ISLANDS TRADITIONS AND FOOD AND SUCH...THE ONLY THING WE EXPORTED OUT WAS PAIN, GRIEF, DEATH AND DESTRUCTION HAH

[@samkavaman1980]

HaaNgata... Do your studying.... Different time frames.... From the time of Tonga's rule of the pacific and the time Kanokuplu came about is different centuries.... Bunch of dummies.... Ai pea mou o 'o ako ae hisitolia ki mu'a oea mou ha'u mo uomou fie poto vale kai kale o fkhe'i ae kakai... Malo....

[@Sikiviu]

Hon..Alalileula, the flower of Ha'amoa...the Fahu as per her mother being Malietoa's sister.....wont be the last of Ha'amoa's taupou contribution to Tonga's Kings and Nobles....it shall be until the end of times....We're a Kingdom and we'll be a Kingdom forever....Rule by Kings....you on the other hand....are puppets who are fed with KFCs and McDonald's and Taco Bells...how sad.... THE END. (As the credit rolls...SIKIVIU LAUGH AND LAUGH THEN STOP AND SAY.... Manuia le aso sugas..Faafetai lava.

[@Sikiviu]

In our blood Ha'amoan kiddies...we have the bloods of Uveans, Tokelauans, Rapanuians, Otaheiteans, Ha'avaihians, Ha'amoans, Vitians, Maulians, Vanuatuans, Anoans etc,...we ancient like that cause WE RULED AN EMPIRE LIKE THAT AND WE GOT AROUND TO PLACES....so dont have a complex and take it out on established history like Mahina ok?...lmfaooo...

[@Sikiviu]

@FobDee hi FobDee how u doin? the names....Siki=Sacred...Viu=Moist...aint it cute got a ring to it right? I had a complex as Tongans be pickin on me nonstop so I decided to make up this name then falsify its meaning to re-establish me as a legit human being as one must do if ones been shit on all his life...if you need anything please dont hesitate call me.. Sacred Moist anytime love you suga....alofa tele....manuia le po

[@Sikiviu]

and patisi?... dang gurl can u please come and say hello already...what? too good to say hi to a Samoan?....if not...just do what Mariah carey say....duchh maah bodeee aueeeee seuuke HAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHHAHAAA

[@tagaloasroyallinesheartofp3478]

Siki viu stop lying Samoa are not slaves you idiot, the Tui Manu'a made your royal lines of kings you dumb idiot**