This video made me homesick! Thanks for posting it x

Is to fast

Mechikung is something you say to one who is leaving. Kurael or something like it is what you say when you are leaving

Ukaeb is the best food. Areca catechu is the betelnut we chew. Ngdiak bai mei em kiei?

Excellent photography and video. Listening to the old government version of the story with black and white photos of how important the island was shows how much of the sacrifice was wasted. The island end up not being essential to the war and could have been bypassed. Hind sight, but still very sad to see the waste of life and damage. My dad was in the Army and fought in New Guinea and the Philippines and went to Japan just after the surrender. They went to disarm and as a show of force but the Japanese were very cooperative and friendly as soon as the Emperor ordered them to. He traveled around both Nagasaki and later Hiroshima before coming home in ‘46. Five months later he turned 21 and had to start the rest of his life. We’ve had it pretty easy.

We called Air Marshall Island Air Wiwijet. You won’t get the joke if you don’t know the language.

Arno IS an outer island. 😊

هل يمكن شراء أرض هناك ارجو الإجابة على سؤالي

هل يمكن شراء أرض هناك للعيش

Aloha Tony Love your videos Big hugs Shelley

This is my dream too.

The first time we traveled to Ta'u Manua seeing those mountains it felt like I was traveling back in time. My ancestors my father were born there. It's a unique unbelievable feeling where time stops. My second trip on the Sili we went further to Ofu and I was intoxicated by the land the beaches the people and their stories.

Great read is The Devils Anvil by James Hallas! Puts you right there if this video isn’t enough. Proud my Dads final battle exploits are outlined herein and widely distributed throughout our family! My Dad loved his Marines as we all do and the freedom they gave us thru their sacrifices throughout the Pacific🙏🇺🇸

1:35:40 the face of the kanaka and all others worldwide who don't look kanaka. 1:20:32 Sovereignty of Hawaiians. reclaiming. clinton, a letter of apology. 1:22:00 sovereignty is government (Kate Trask). 1:23:20 recovery, rehabilitating the land rehabilitates the people. 1:24:04 many different paths to same goal, reclaiming sovereignty. Lahui kanaka.1:29:31 language is the bloodline. Golf course owners will dirt to keep that land. 1:33:34

Red Hill? Flint Michigan? Fracking?

1:03:10 paying only $1 a year for -- 23,000 acres. 1:06:03 the military use for target practice...cracked the water table? Water diverted to golf courts and resorts. Tourists trashing what´s left of upper mountain water source. 1:08:32 built around and on sacred sites and caves. Gated off caves.

so did the slow to restore from fires give developers opportunity to grab those neighborhoods.

36:45 i wonder how many heos were ground under golf courses and resorts. the littlest of things...a way 52:14 and then 52:34 dischord... genetrification, militarization, no trespass, go native, 55:02 a world flipped upside down. 55:26 1896 ban of ōlelo. 56:23 overthrown, a coup by usa. 57:28 destruction expressed. 59:14 How many no longer speak roots.

16:29 pidgin sounds like a language stew (every when every all). i watched other videos and learned there's the language council (colonizer) and then there's ōlelo hawaiian (roots heritage). -- 3 streams and then there's the more intact Ni'ihau where a less people retained more roots.

ōlelo hawaii..."language is the lifeline of any culture". I was learning another langusge years ago and dropped it. The more I learned of the language, the more I wasn't prepared for its culture. I will return to it, now that I understand I can be me while respecting the cultural bridge i believe is the gift of learning other languages.

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Awesome video, just came back from Fiji and American Samoa, my first South Pacific experience and I totally loved it! Views are breathtaking and the best part is the people! I've been on 5 continents so far and I can tell that Oceania people are the most friendly. I started rewatching your videos again, love the contest and editing. I have to say this... I feel like you are very underrated and under appreciated travel creator. With your brilliant contest you should be getting at least 300k views if not 3M views, not 3k. Don't worry, You are the best!!!

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Lovely.

High five bro!

Never!!!

This was excellent. Thank you for sharing a place many might never get to see. To those on this post whose fathers were involved on this somewhat forgotten brutal battle, I send my utmost respect and gratitude.

Nice video! Inspiring! 👍

Mahalo nui loa! This was well made & exposed. I can relate to everything here. It is true Hawaiians are not Americans. So to the tourist you come visit & when you pau! go home do not stay here because if you do you take away a house from a Kanaka Maoli. Now slowly everyone is finding out the truth what the USA did. It must be told.

damn man, that process sucks. They could 10x their GDP, if they just issued visas on arrivals. They'd make a fortune.

Okay,Perez contact me, will take care of your lodging if you are seriously❤ considering to visit American Samoa.

World's paradise Palau island I❤ Palau

Welcome!!!

I like palau from indonesia 🇮🇩🇮🇩

Came to subscribe from IG cause you've got some of the best videos on A.S ❤️🇦🇸 Do you think you'll ever do any videos in Savai'i or Upolu?

@donaldjtrump Make a change!!!!

They should see the taro on Pohnpei!!! Plants 7 to 10 feet tall, were it would take 5 or more people to harvest one plant with a root that weights 20lbs plus!!! Purple goodness!!!

Choohooo i went to the Manu'a flagday on Tau in 2011. Enjoy your time there brother🌺

Lol this was funny. Cant say you had a real Polynesian experience if we aint crackin jokes😂 love to my kanaka kinfolk🤙

This is an exceptional video. I have learned more in the first 20 minutes than all of the years I have spent there. Looking forward to watching the rest of it. Mahalo nui loa A. Perez.

Palauan living in Hawaii with my Hawaiian husband and kids. ❤ from HI and PW.

How good. There’s Tokelauan’s with the Perez last name. Safe travels bro 🇹🇰 ❤

Nicely done. Thank you! I worked with a Marine that went ashore at Tarawa. He was dark haired when he landed, when he left the island a week or so later his hair had gone white.