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burgermeister 6 points 4 months ago.

Hope they don’t. The ha’a, while having some limited basis in Hawaiian tradition, is largely a modern reinvention that was created because the University of Hawai’i’s football team was taking flak for appropriating the haka from the Māori, including the potential for legal action against them by the All Blacks, whose haka is performed with explicit permission from Māori tribes.

mikebcarguy 6 points 4 months ago.

Hahaha… thank you! That’s what I get for trusting Google AI… “Is there anything similar to Maori hakas in Hawaiian culture?”
Should’ve learned my lesson (Mom said Tesla’s making a tablet for $99 called the “Pi Tablet” and Google AI showed two sources saying yes — two YT videos on the same channel).
[Fugging Love the clip from NZ parliament when a haka broke out to disrupt a vote on a bill that went against tribal rights (I hope I got that right).]
In any case, anything that shows Hawaiian history to The People will be a good thing (shame it won’t include Naval fuel poisoning their groundwater or how we’ve made them homeless).