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Māhū, The Most Controversial Word In Hawaiian

Season 13 Episode 3 | 2m 10s

Kumu Patrick Makuakāne, Kumu Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, and Kaumakaiwa Kanakaʻole explains what māhū has been through history to present-day.

Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Extras
Indigenous women around the Pacific seek support in their birth choices.
Rava Ray, Tahitian photographer and artist, sought an ocean birth for her first child.
Kimi Werner, Native Hawaiian free diver and spearfisher, shares her first birth journey.
Ioana Turia, competitive paddler and free diver, shares her birth journey in Rarotonga.
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.
A Hawaiian finch sues the State of Hawai‘i to prevent its imminent extinction.