A traditional double-hulled canoe has returned to Hawaii after concluding a three-year epic journey around the globe, the first trip of its kind by such a boat. The Hokule’a vessel and its crew ...

KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii's American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin with lye. Many people believed Polynesian voyagers ...

SUQUAMISH — Indigenous cultures connected Thursday afternoon outside the House of Awakened Culture when Hōkūleʻa, a Polynesian canoe from Hawaii, arrived at the shoreline in Suquamish. After being ...

There are no e-mails to check, no online charts to reference, no modern-day distractions – only the stars, sea, wind and Mother Nature to guide the crew. The Polynesian canoe Hōkūleʻa has been making ...

A send-off for the voyaging canoe Hokule‘a before it is shipped to Alaska to embark on a four-year circumnavigation of the Pacific is planned for Saturday. The Polynesian Voyaging Society and its crew ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Polynesian voyaging canoe will set sail from Hawaii in March and head into the South Pacific, aiming to reach tiny Palmyra Atoll near Kiribati using only an ancient seafaring ...

Hawaiian Canoe, 2005, Katherine Fogden, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian For thousands of years, Native Hawaiians have traveled the Pacific in traditional voyaging canoes like the ...