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In Tahiti, Rava Ray was Determined to Have an Outdoor Birth

Season 13 Episode 5 | 2m 44s

Meet Rava Ray, a Tahitian photographer and artist, who sought a natural birth in the ocean for her first child. Determined with this birth plan, she and her midwife found a way to make it work.

Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts. Distributed nationally by American Public Television
Extras
Indigenous women around the Pacific seek support in their birth choices.
Ioana Turia, competitive paddler and free diver, shares her birth journey in Rarotonga.
Kimi Werner, Native Hawaiian free diver and spearfisher, shares her first birth journey.
Native Hawaiian mother-daughter activists stand to protect their sacred Mauna Kea.
Two sisters, Kapulei Flores and Hāwane Rios, share a responsibility to protect Mauna Kea.
Thousands of Native Hawaiians and protectors of Mauna Kea gather in protest.
New theater production by Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakāne reclaims and celebrates māhū people.
Kumu Patrick Makuakāne designed his show to be inclusive in dance, song, and costume.
What does it mean to be māhū? Kumu Patrick Makuakāne shares why it's the name of his show.
A Hawaiian finch sues the State of Hawai‘i to prevent its imminent extinction.