This is so cool.

I'm in Hawaii doing an interview for a new documentary
in production.

The film, "Native of Owhyhee" by Stoneman Productions
is scheduled for screening in late fall/winter 2006.

Here's a summary ...

"Native of Owhyhee"

"This outstanding video documentary honors the last
Hawai'ians & their heritage. It is high time that the
world gets to know the culture in the middle of the
Pacific - beyond the usual touristic or commercialized
approach. Who are the Hawaiians? What happened in the
era of the greatest changes when the first
missionaries arrived? What was life in Hawaii like
when the native peoples lived in one of the most
outstanding spiritual settings of the world? (yes:
"peoples", because there were several different groups
of Hawaiians before the white people came!) And what
is life in Hawaii like today?" http://huna-ohana.com

... and NOW

... a little taste of ...

"Hawaii's DARK SECRET!!!"

I got the message BELOW from the lady coordinating my
interview for the documentary.

I like these people already!

They have DEFINITELY done their homework ... so this
will NOT be one of those typical sappy, PC, "poor
oppressed victims" kinda shows.

I don't think I could have written this better myself!

Nice.

--Vince

Rev. James Vinson Wingo, DD

--- Original Message ---

> Dear Vince,
> I have never heard of this, however, be careful
> hereabouts when people want you to buy into
> the "grievance industry" and make you feel bad about
> what the "haole" have done and are doing to
> the "indigenous" culture ... Our research on this
> docu has brought us to see the depths and the
> heights of "island spirit".
>
> A lot of sham culture around, people who are simply
> angry, looking for identity and are not really
> representing what is left of the Hawaiian
> communities. I have not met one full Hawaiian who
> shares what the a-drop-of-Hawaiian-blood activist
> are saying.
>
> The sovereignty struggles are brutal, racist and
> extremely far fetched in many aspects.
>
> We all love Hawaiian culture, but MANY people who
> claim to represent it, only represent their personal
> attempts to be "better" than other people.
>
> Many people are extremely naive in representing of
> what they think is "Hawaiian". It takes years and
> many years of reading, thousands and thousands of
> pages of a huge diversity of authors to get an idea
> of what has been going on and what is going on.
>
> I hope you know that Lili'uokalani didn't compose
> the famous song "Aloha 'oe" when she was
> imprisoned after the "overthrow" ... as millions of
> people are lead to believe. It's a lovesong, written
> 15 years before this.
>
> And the legend that it's "bad luck" to take lava
> rocks home was invented by rangers in the
> 40s of the last century ...
>
> These are a good example how historical info is bent
> and twisted to fit the intentions of people who want
> to "go back to the old ways" - not even knowing what
> those were.
>
> Hawaiians descend from so many ancestral groups,
> that today's Hawaiians aren't necessarily
> "indigenous" ...
>
> Their tenure in Hawaii is actually shorter than the
> one of the Anglo-Saxons in England ... and do those
> people call themselves "indigenous"?
>
> There is an immense lack of info out there and
> another immense bunch of false info. I have
> heard "cultural practitionners" literally lie to
> tourists ... it's sad.
>
> In shall meet some kupuna in Hilo on Saturday, have
> met some a week ago, teaching folks of all skin
> colors ... unlike the "Hawaiians" who claim that
> only Hawaiians can understand and should learn
> "Hawaiian" traditions ... ignoring, that the people
> of old didn't even know themselves as "Hawaiians"
> but simply as ka po'e, the people or na kanaka,
> human beings, each in very separate circumstances on
> their ahupua'a, the landdivisions on their
> islands ...
>
> I have seen Hawaiians who couldn't care less about
> the traditions of their ancients, and people from
> all over the world cherishing what they know of
> Hawaiian traditions ... and above all, our film
> wants to give "faces" to abstract terms and honor
> the unique, individual person.
>
> We are dealing daily with the question which aspects
> of all those things to put into the film ...
> and we are networking to find the people to address
> those things. I will certainly answer all of your
> questions and can give you info an referrals if you
> need some.
>
> You will like Bishop Museum ... but don't forget the
> exhibition at the Academy of the Arts in
> Honolulu where the original collection of gifts that
> Cook took home from the Pacific is exhibited, for
> the first time ever ...
>
> Aloha nui!
> Jo

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