The Stick Dancers Of Chuuk

[@riderandon1755]

chuukese stick dance and other dances represent our ways of surviving in the past until now.....some culturs are already forgotten. people we must update bring the past to teach our youngsters.

[@gracelotekkey7617]

I love stick dancing it's something we Micronesians do. It explains the way we had to survive and I'm from chuuk. I was born and raised there and know I'm in Appleton Wisconsin stick dancing to show my pride and respect of being a Micronesia. check it out on Facebook just search up Gracelo Tekkey and look at the video we did thanks. ;-)

[@KitinupNengin]

omg beautiful dances...I'm def showing my mom when I get home...I'm sure she knows some of those ladies! where is this?

[@TheVanebo]

Nemin, ika kose fatafateoch ei video minen apwapwan ewe mwan Pialug an tori Pohnpei an ateter won fonuen Micro. Iwe kana chon pworuk atin Chuuk Kuttu rekan nonom pohnpei ena att ina ke fos ngeni masowen non ena video ina pwata ee kurufat. Kose ne fen saau ina? En fin tefen Chuuk nge non ai sinei me weweiti pwe fin mochulok rese pwan nanamaiki.

[@lerinhar]

Beautiful culture n dances! my question however is other than kiribati r hip dances native to chuuk? How bout other micronesian islands. I also notice the similarities of chants with main island yapese n the satawalese. Keep up the gud work n preserve this wonderful culture!

[@zurieljoker8999]

Satawal people are actually chuuk descendants from pattiw region to be more specific, but its in yap territory thats why they say its an outter island of yap, but even when they speak it similar with chuukese language.

[@jakecob2624]

Yea Satawal just come to yap to copy their culture and go cause they hav no culture

[@uts4448]

I know I’m 12 years late to reply, but yes, hip dances are native to Chuuk as well lol. They call it “nek”. Not sure about the other Micronesian islands tho.

[@lerinhar]

@@uts4448 that's fine! You weren't too late! These dances are so cool! I'm an anthropology major and me independently studying Pacific cultures for so long, ive been greatly captived. There used to be a Micronesian forum online up until a few years ago. This forum contained a lot of wealthy info on Micronesian history, because so many people from various Micronesian cultures still retained oral history and would just randomly ask whatever questions that were presented. Do you know of any similar forums?

[@uts4448]

@@lerinhar Wow! Interesting I know exactly what forum you're talking about. That's also the place where I got my information on stuff like clans in different Micronesian islands, but i apology, I don't know any other forums (if there were any). I know I've seen some information about some of our islands from Germans like Augustin Kramer. He went into depth about some of our islands and the old culture. It's just everything is in German (I just use google translate lol). But wow, you must know A LOT about the different cultures if you been studying the Pacific cultures for a while. And I agree with your comment that you made 12 years ago. We have to preserve our culture.

[@fsmroots]

wonderful Job men.. keep up the good works....way to go..

[@ForgottenInTheShadow]

Peita pwe mwan. Iwe iwe a pwung.

[@urshanjr6360]

Mule Pash Sorofok se we..teeehooo..i it too..lol

[@magnumkalson]

This is how we intese savaging our scream we dont do( chehwooo)we do (wheeeehooo)!!the warror scream😂😂😂😂😂😂..respectfully speaking

[@KitinupNengin]

@KitinupNengin is this on punlap?

[@asinech]

man, i love this.. :)

[@rainyday8420]

Maiii fakkun iei an rechuuk ei dance ese fakkun wor tapin. they are the only originals. all others rekan chok kapini won rese pusin pwete me fan onokewe rechuuk. Ika met?

[@vmorwalker833]

i learn this when i was 1 grade and the teacher was enal

[@soptamer]

this is amazing!!!!

[@morfynazareth1591]

I'm a student of micor but in Honolulu I sevre for chuuk

[@MwLiera]

Please utilize auto correct because you can't spell to save your life, and it's embarrassing.

[@glensaladier1852]

Back in the old day.redeem warriors sarawen tupuniol.

[@Unikon3]

2 thumbs up!

[@MwLiera]

This was in Chuuk..why would it be in PNI? They traveled to Chuuk and watched the CHUUKESE performances in CHUUK. Just because you see a hut, you assume it's Misko Beach? tsk tsk

[@morfynazareth1591]

Bro u hate our island u mess with use u get Spears form use to find u 😠😠😠😠😡😠😡😠😠

[@sokotengawanatewass4664]

Stfup u all of u micronesian dont have anything agains chuukese you dont even know the chuukese people they not your people and they no longer related to chuukese Even if your yapese or kosraen pohnpeian you no longer Related to them They are on there own and stop mentioning Chuukese u dont know them

[@sokotengawanatewass4664]

The only micronesian that Chuukese are like to get along whit Is The nauruan not guam pohnpeian kosrae or yap palau they know yall so racist toward chuukese

[@sokotengawanatewass4664]

Chuukese and nauruan considered close brothers and sister than the rest of the other micronesian

[@mangekong2951]

peace my fellow Micronesians. I'm from Palau. Micronesian culture is beautiful. Wonderful performance from Chuuk❤️

[@kuobano]

this was at Misko Beach, Pohnpei.

[@fancynika5306]

This is in Chuuk! Smh

[@vmorwalker833]

ngang chuck

[@JustFun-tn4bh]

2021✌️

[@kuobano]

It wasn't an assumption. The stick dance group is made up of a bunch of kids from a small town called Lewi in Nett, Pohnpei. The man who taught these guys is from Kuttu, Chuuk. The video is from 1999.

[@MwLiera]

FYI, this was not in PNI and I hope those kids from Nett who u say are performing the stick dance have Fanapi roots in Chuuk!!! If not, that's cultural appropriation and I have a huge problem with that!!! I know for a fact that some micros make it a habit to perform dances from islands other than their own and try to pass it off as their own #FAIL! How about performing your own and not ripping off other ppls culture? As a Micronesian who was raised in Polynesia, I cringe when I see Micronesians butchering Polynesian dances at public events 🙄 . Have some pride in your own culture and do your own dances, pls!!! 👎

[@33bravo14]

No ! These guys are from KUTTU brought to the lagoon islands of chuuk for the arrival of papa Mau , this is in chuuk before the building of the hotel resort

[@33bravo14]

These men are not kids as u can see, some of them are kids, but most of them are men ! These are my uncles and cousins !! Brought from The Mortlock isalnd of Kuttu to perform for the arrival of papa Mau on the hokulea

[@shikamaru8031]

Love Luv, Are you talking about the stick dance? They didn’t steal it from another culture..it’s called tokia

[@santospaul8103]

@@MwLiera let’s not say cultural appropriation because if you go far back you will see that we are all one people. There are clans in Chuuk that originated from Pohnpei and there are clans in Pohnpei that originated from Chuuk. Chuuk and Pohnpei are apart of the same country 🇫🇲 so the sharing of culture nowadays isn’t something that should be looked down upon when they’re all siblings

[@85darson]

Pohnpeians do stick dance to

[@zurieljoker8999]

Those pohnpeians might have fanapi blood which is chuuk mortluck islands, stick dance or tokia is from the outter islands because long ago they always had war between each islands so this is their war dance.

[@santospaul8103]

@@zurieljoker8999 I don’t doubt what you’re saying but Pohnpeian stick dances aren’t always necessarily a result of Chuukese influence. Every island in Micronesia has stick dances from Guam to Kiribati. I think it just shows how we are all one people and have more in common then our differences🤷🏽‍♂️