Kau Lana Na Pua

Kau Lana Na Pua
Written by: Ellen Wright Pendergast
Performed by: Kumu Hula Uluwehi Guerrero & Hula Halau Kauluokala
Video by: Robin Ridington
11th Annual E Hoʻoulu Aloha benefit concert for Bailey House Museum
24 November 2012

[@pacificvoyager5372]

Never stop telling your story. Very heartfelt. Power to you all and God's Blessings. Paul - NSW Australia

[@marmeone]

Such a beautiful dance for something so sad!

[@avalonprovin3170]

Made me cry! I've heard this song sung so many times in my 62 years on God's green earth….but to actually see the words in english with the song & dance give more meaning & understanding….. & LOVE for my islands & the people that fought & stood strong for our blessed queen & her willingness & defiance to keep her land. God bless her soul!

[@tava9056]

Maikai kela

[@armandosierra7417]

This was performed at my Grandpa's House, Edward Bailey, and brought me to tears.

[@jt5439]

This song.... and Hawaiian music is the most beautiful, graceful music I ever heard. It is food for my Soul!!! It brings beauty and peace to my being. Mahalo!

[@dancertm]

Very, very moving, a joining of protest, and movement as prayer with sublime dignity.

[@kfwahine]

You mean you are Haole ? Don't worry . You are among those who can become "Hawai'ian at Heart" . YOu need no invitation ! Submerge yourself in the culture, language, music and especially pray for the islands to be returned to their people. No worry about Pele or any others. You have to decide based on your heart. Kaleolani F. One haole Hawai'ian, singer, musician, hula dancer & lover of all that is Hawai'ian ! Welcome !

[@kahanalu1]

The native Hawaiian people are suffering today in Hawaii and no one cares. I moved to Alaska to escape the sadness of the native Hawaiian people who cannot afford to live in their own native land. There are a lot Polynesians from all over the Pacific moving to wild places like Alaska where I myself have lived happily for over 25 years tying flies and fly fishing the many wild rivers of Alaska for wild, native salmon and trout. I am originally born and raised in Papaikou on the Big Island of Hawaii. Imua!

[@坂井由紀-t5n]

kahanal

[@theyareourbread]

Grace to u from northern cal

[@poupee9564]

Same as every culture the invaders touch.and destroy around the world

[@MARISBENMusic]

I'm not aware of this! what is the problem existing in Hawaii, is it still ongoing?

[@sully3724]

​​@@MARISBENMusic as ur reading this it just got even worse with people not from their stealing land/buying up land causing many Hawaiians to get removed from Hawai'i. The government doesn't care Hawaiians are not their main problem it seems. All they care about is the military and foreign voices being spoken, they say they hate the way Hawai'i is and would want more. With this they destroyed greenery land making their hotels, houses(they say its affordable but no it isn't to the Hawaiians/locals it's more affordable to greedy selfish foreigners). Although the Hawaiians are still trying to fight back against the state to give back their land rightfully since it was illegally stolen in 1893 and as time went on, the more the Hawaiian lands started getting destroyed turning it into a huge city. And as you are reading this it will only get worse and I'm telling you Hawai'i is near death of its language and land. Help Hawaiians by not living their, kicking foreign business's out, having the right government that cares for the Hawaiian people, having more affordable housing. SAVE THE OLELO HAWAI'I( Hawaiian language)

[@PamaLyons]

I spent 9 days there. I loved it. When I got home, I kept getting home sick for the Islands. I believe I left part of me there when I left. I couldn't believe that these beautiful Islands had slum areas with the billions that flow through these islands. It's disgraceful.

[@vincentmuturi9073]

cool

[@ronalddevine9587]

In my opinion, this is THE MOST BEAUTIFUL song in the Hawaiian language. This performance was superb, especially the English translation. I often wonder what would have happened to those beautiful islands if the USA didn't force abdication and annexation? Would Great Britain have taken over Hawaii? What about the early 1940s? Food for thought.

[@OperationHawaiiana]

well we know counties like the Uk and Japan wouldn't have came and attacked us. however, i think the cold war may have led to an attack on hawai'i from Russia. china never really did much to Hawai'i besides trade and that was it.

[@doritaschlenker3014]

Mi admiración y respeto a la gente de Hawai, por su dignidad!!! Además su arte es increíblemente hermoso.

[@hannimalgray4978]

ALOHA, THIS SONG BRING,S TEAR,S TO MY HAWAIIAN(FULL. BLOODED! HEART, LIKALEIALANI LAMPURA KUKONU GRAY, AND MY BELOVED HUSBAND HANNIMAL TWO MOON'S GRAY, AND OUR DAUGHTER SHAINIA,) FROM YOUR WORDS, HAS TOUCHED ALL YOUR HEART,S BY OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN!!!, AND THE DANCING IS SO BEAUTIFULL😚😚😚 EACH MOVEMENT SAY,S, MAHALOE SOON MUCH, (WITH OUR LOVE), ALOHA😚😚😚 LIKALEIALANI HANNIMAL & SHAINIA.😚😚😚😚😚😚😚,..

[@islandgirl2856]

Magnifique

[@debbyflickinger]

Beautiful!

[@zlatkokovach7862]

Hope to see Hawaii - and my homeland Macedonia -- free in my lifetime.

[@freerangemaker]

Mahalo for this.

[@armandosierra7417]

So beautiful!! Performed at my Grandpa's House (Edward Bailey)

[@rosenathan4192]

Aloha , it's really good .👍💐🙏💗

[@AnaLuisa-in2on]

Dance that expresses his feeling of protest

[@schirmmutze7060]

great!! 🙂 thx!!!

[@forulimu]

I an Kanaka Maoli and I always cry during this song. My heart breaks and I can not get the words to come out. Auwe! I hope in my short time left on the Earth that the progress continues to IMUA! for the reclamation and world wide recognition of what the United States has done. It is evil that Congress, the President, and the terrible government of the USA will not right the wrong, the lies, the thievery of out lands. We don't need you money, the stones are enough. Look at the Hawaiian subjects that are kept from the lands, that are HOUSELESS! Start with Pokai Bay, give us that costal area, give us 1/2 of Kaneohe base, give us 2/3 of Scofield and 1/2 of Wheeler back. My people will make that land thrive, and grow food, and grow families, and grow shelters. And we don't need the Waikiki that the United States built. Send the tourist to Australia, and Japan, and to Alaska, and New York, and to Paris. You built concrete on top of our farm lands, desecrated our Mauna kea, and Haleakala, give it back. And now you must also fix Kahoolawe because we want that, too. U.S.A. you are greedy, you have made perhaps a quadrillion dollars off of our lands. Since you have fouled the harbors in Pearl Harbor, and abused the lands at Hickam, stay there and protect the islands now in perpetuity by staying there while we fix all the wrong you don't seem to have the stomach to fix. Do NOT CONTINUE to tell the people in your country that Hawaii is your Fiftieth State, that is an INSULT, IT IS A LIE, IT IS NOT TRUE. You need to educate Americans that the USA is occupying land that is NOT AMERICAN SOIL. WE ARE RECOGNISED in the Hague World Court, the United Nations, and have diplomatic ties to many, many nations around the world, and they know we are a sovereign nation. This is one of the biggest crimes of the last two hundred years. And while I feel bad for the Black citizens in America, you lousy Congress people will not even face the plight of the illegal over throw of our Hawaiian Nation, the illegal occupation of Hawaii, and condemn what the man Stevens did, or the illegal provisional government did to our Queen and our Hawaiian subjects. People of America, if you "love" Hawaii, help the Country and the Kingdom of Hawaii. History if Hawaii presented to you is FAKE, and a FRAUD. Help us, learn the truth, spread the word, study the KZbin videos, research Dr. Keanu Sai, search Kanaka Maoli, search the Hawaiian Kingdom, and Hawaiian Queen Lili'uokalani. Oprah, you have land here, so open your heart, and give us a three hour prime time show, if you have a heart for the needy, start here in Hawaii.

[@CheePono775]

Me too, it's hard to listen to .

[@lindarodgers3684]

I used to hu🎉and I was Kaneohe, Ouahu,,Island

[@lindarodgers3684]

Ha😂

[@lindarodgers3684]

when I was 4 years old❤

[@lindarodgers3684]

when I learned hula at,4 years old!❤

[@kuuipopakalolo8723]

Mahalo plenty for mele..

[@moanasimutoga4193]

Aloha from kanaky

[@waimeaguyz9074]

previously what was done was unjust. hope we can be successful doing good. what was done is in the past. kupunas always said growing up to do things good way with all your heart. Ke Aku pu me oe.

[@kawikakaila431]

Kaulana Nā Pua. Famous are the Flowers of Hawaii. (in answer to M. Alifgra) “Flowers” means “the people who blossomed here,” in 1893, the native Hawaiians. This is when the Christians of the U.S. and of the Missionary Party of Hawaii stole (there was never a treaty of annexation) the government from the Hawaiian monarchy. Hawaiians knew back then what friendship means to whites. The beloved presidents, McKinley and T. Roosevelt, stole Hawaii despite six treaties of friendship with the Queen, and pure Hawaiians are expected to disappear in this century, with no action in sight from any presidents since then. (The Democrat, Cleveland, was the only president to insist Hawaii be returned to the Queen, so the Republicans stalled until they got T. Roosevelt in. Sound familiar? Over a hundred years later and American Christians still agree to this playbook of iniquity in domestic and foreign policy.) To paraphrase the words of our Queen, the Christian whites were not satisfied with taking a whole continent, but set their greedy eyes on this tiny archipelago thousands of miles away from them in the Pacific. The truth hurts? The truth hurts us more.

[@darrenkamalu9047]

This is a song of protest. It is not just meant to be a cool hula. Are the dancers and singers ready for this?

[@curtistauiliili480]

Darren Kamalu they don't look like they're being cool. They danced it beautifully and with respect

[@andioop7065]

the messager also banned hula so hula is an extra insult to the messages

[@OperationHawaiiana]

@@andioop7065 no???

[@muhammadalifgra2187]

What the title song?

[@kawikakaila431]

Kawika Kaila writes you a reply as a separate comment.

[@hectoralvarado9359]

Sort of the same with Native american Indians in the U.S.A except they are in reservations and live under poberty and drugs.Of coure not all of them.That is why it is best to find out the meaning of the songs in other languages other than English. Hong Kong is going over the taking over the Cantonese language. They are told that only Mandarin should be spoken only.

[@angelathemes1187]

I don’t think the words on the screen are the words they are dancing to

[@mayanlotus1496]

But those are the words... I don't understand your comment.

[@OperationHawaiiana]

well they are. are you shocked to what these words really are?

[@folukeomolayo3896]

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