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Pacific Mother Preview

Season 13 Episode 5 | 30s

As freediving couple Sachiko Fukumoto and William Trubridge navigated maternity systems for the birth of their first child, it awoke in them a fierce realisation about the lack of choice many parents face. Now Sachiko connects with other mothers around the Pacific, from Hawai’i, Tahiti, the Cook Islands, and Aotearoa who face similar battles and have been cut off from Indigenous birth practices.

Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Extras
Ioana Turia, competitive paddler and free diver, shares her birth journey in Rarotonga.
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.
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.
Native Hawaiian mother-daughter activists stand to protect their sacred Mauna Kea.
What does it mean to be māhū? Kumu Patrick Makuakāne shares why it's the name of his show.
Kumu Patrick Makuakāne designed his show to be inclusive in dance, song, and costume.
New theater production by Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakāne reclaims and celebrates māhū people.
A Hawaiian finch sues the State of Hawai‘i to prevent its imminent extinction.