Mysteries of Hawaii - The True History of Ni'ihau
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- Much has been written and recorded about this “Forbidden” island whose land and people have been under the control of one family for 160 years. But the history of this place began long before 1864. Today, Mysteries of Hawaii shares with you, the history and the mystery of Ni‘ihau.
00:00 Intro
00:56 Ka Po‘e Kahiko - The People of Old
02:46 Nā Ali‘i ‘O Ni‘ihau - Rulers of Ni‘ihau
04:37 Nā Mahi‘ai - Cultivation
05:42 Moena Makaloa - Makaloa Mats
06:18 Lei Pūpū ‘O Ni‘ihau - Makaloa Protest Mat
08:12 Nā Wahi Pana - Ni‘ihau Lei Pūpū
09:30 Wahi Pana - Sacred Places
10:47 Ka Powa O Nā Luakupapa‘u - Burials and Grave Robbing
12:48 Ka Mahele Nui - The Great Mahele
14:40 Ka Mea Kū‘ai ‘Āina e Nā Sinclair - Land Purchase by the Sinclairs
18:31 Hihia ‘O Ni‘ihau I Ke Kaua Honua ‘Elua - Ni‘ihau Involvment in WWII
25:28 He Ka‘ao ‘O Ni‘ihau - A Ni‘ihau Legend
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Crucial for all of the Hawaii people young and old, to hear and listen to how Hawaii came about, as you will not hear about this in school history books, have to know your roots, makes you more appreciative and respectful of where you came from!
Very excited to hear these stories. When I first got out of college I worked as an editor for a Hawaiian documentary company that got permission and filmed on Ni'ihau. Sadly, I didn't go along for the shoot, but being able to see that footage and hear from the Ni'ihau people directly is something I'll never forget. The documentary, for those interested, is called "The Hawaiians: Reflecting Spirit"
Ni'ihau is such a fascinating place with such a deep history. Mahalo for sharing.
Wow! Your short story of Niihau is very educational. Mahalo🤙
Mahalo for sharing. Amazing stories. Keeping our polynesian stories alive through you sharing. Mahalo.
Aloha brother! Thanks so much for this awesome accounting of the incredible history of Ni’ihau. It is the most detailed sharing of the of the struggles and triumphs of the island that I have heard. Mahalo 🤙🏻
Watching you from Alabama.Sinclairs are a piece of work, Native Americans were sold out with liquor, beads, and some got guns.Even cheated the landowner and shortchanged them.WOW the Japanese pilot had a luau the contracted workers who were translators got some Karma.Interesting history.The more you know💫Love Uncles ghost stories and history lessons😘
Big Mahalo uncle for the story I always felt like there was more to the stories that my father would tell me. I cant wait to show him this 🤙🏽
Aloha Brother, thank you for all you do. God bless the journey and God bless you.
Keep up this content so interesting
Aloha and Mahalo!
Wow. Can this please be a movie?
Mahalo for sharing. There is a lot that have been left out and I just want to point out the most important one to the Ohana Ni’ihau out of everything that was mentioned in the video. And that is the Ohana Ni’ihau’s aloha For Ke’Akua or love of Ke’Akua (God.) is the number one thing that is most valuable to us. We worship no other Gods but one, Iehova. The next two are aloha Ohana (love for the Ohana) and lastly, aloha ‘āina (Love for the land.) I along with my Ohana Kelley of Ni’ihau are so fortunate and grateful for the Robinson Ohana for their continuous commitment, dedication, and support in the preservation and the perpetuation of the Ohana Ni’ihau culture, traditions, Language, and it’s way of life. Ni’ihau wouldn’t be Ni’ihau today had it not been for their tremendous outpouring effort, stewardship and aloha for the people and the island in wanting to maintain the islands heritage and its legacy. So we Mahalo Ke’Akua for the Robinson Ohana and continue to pray for them to mālama Ni’ihau for the Ohana Ni’ihau.
AAa
I’m liking this vid before I even watch it cuz I know it’s gonna be good
Mahalo Nui 🌸. Thank You So Much 😊. Love & Aloha
Your a Legend Sir!
Really fantastic info, the music was a bit distracting though due to it only being a single note. Looking forward to more videos!
Noted!
👀Always enjoy & learn about the history as well as the paranormal of Hawai’i from your videos,-LOPAKA!!!🤙⚡️
Mahalo for this video please do more! Maybe about each side of the islands and the most prominent stories.
Mahalo nui loa, what a great story
Awesome Video! Thank You for Sharing!
I went to college (UH Hilo) with a Ginger Pahulehua I hope she alive and well, she was so gracious to a young black kid from the East Coast
The Knudsen family were my relatives through marriage. The greed and arrogance of my family is legendary.
Jeff's cool
So you have the Kawanakoa Hawaiian family recently inheriting 11 billion dollars and they didn’t buy back Niihau and Lanai for Hawaiians to live free ... They could afford to buy the islands with 1/10 of their money but didn’t do it .
End of day it's the decision of Larry Ellison and the Robinson family to make a sale.
Why buy something you own? Haole can create FRADULENT BUSINESS? THE STATE OF HA WA I'I HAS BEEN HIJACKED & PERVERTED. GOVERNMENT / REALESTATE BUSINESS IS NULL SINCE OVERTHROW. 🫵😊
It’s stolen. Who would buy back something stolen from you?
if they did buy it back, u think we get to live the way our ancestors used to??
evict the military and make them pay back everything they destroyed, which is a lot
@@Travis66421the land could in the future be taken away from them
Great educational video. From Texas here. I hope it will be able to continue to exist.
Great presentation. Thank You!
Mahalo...nice presentation
Mahalo for this history lesson about Niihau
I am so psyched to find this channel. How did I not see this before? TH-cam fills up timeline with crap and GEMS like this channel slip by me. 🤙
Great - wonderful, very little known piece of history! Thank you very much for this video!
Nice history lesson! Mahalo.
Thank you for posting the video. I grew up on O'ahu and enjoyed the Hawaiiana classes that was taught in grade school.
Many thanks for sharing this history.
The sunset photo was taken either on October 27th or February 15th near my apartment in low income housing in Kekaha.🤙
The image was purchased from Shutterstock . com. The website lists the contributor as Robert Springs and gives the upload date as Jun 27, 2007. You can check it out here... www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/sun-setting-over-island-niihau-hawaii-3618785
we share the same word for mountain
i am from New Zealand , my tribe is Kai Tahu also called Ngai Tahu my gparents Kati Mamoe our dialect differs from others in nz
our cousins across the sea💕
❤❤❤ Ngamihi ehoa Ngati Mamoe kaitahu my wife is from Te Waipounamu I myself am Tuhoe from East coast Opotiki this info is amazing aye🙏
@@dixonbeejayone big family😊
Wow, that was informative, 😊mahalo (thank you)
Im from Aotearoa and your channel is buzzy
Awesome
Thanks for the stories. I never herd any stories from that island. I'm from Waimanalo. Thanks
Mahalo Hawaiian for sharing. Aloha from the 9th Island 🤙🤙
he's not hawaiian.
Thanks!
Bradduh I'm trying to understand and maybe lost in the content, why was it sold and sold to a foreigner? Right now across the water on Kaua'i you have foreigners buying the land of my roots. Turning them into their private bunker. Lana'i already gone. I fear the same for Kaua'i. Who is selling out?
They were tricked into selling unfortunately by people who knew so.
@@user-ek8zu2gv4t Land of my roots was once sacred. But now it is a playground of the rich foreigners. Most do not give a kukai about the history. But they use the greetings Aloha and mahalo and wear the culture and heritage around their necks as facades. But yet have no cae when it comes to exploitation and commercialisation. Shame on the ones who sold out
Hawaii Kings didn't gain much through taxing Niihau and instead chose to play foreigners' game of land sale and took the money instead... the result of trying to look and live like foreigners.
@@samuelaakeo8118 Well not just Niihau. Very sad a culture, heritage gone with the aina
Sad
Aloha From Kauai!
⭐️🐝🌻⭐️🐝🌻⭐️🐝🌻
1:48 Connected in a way I've seen very few other people in history be. Residual energy of Lemeria (?) helping to create that bond. I belive a large part of it rests below us (or the islands themselves may even be the remaing land.) It's just a theory of course.
Mu civilization ...
James “Kimo” Robinson was my 5X grandfather best friend (Robert William Holt) and my 4x grandmother step father…
Kia ora ehoa ngamihi🙏 E Maori ahau he ngai- tuhoe te waka o (Mataatua) My Tribe is Tuhoe and my Canoe Waka is Mataatua
Some of my children attended Ke Kula Niihau o Kauai in Kekaha in and around 2002 or so. They could speak hawaiian but did struggle with the Niihau dialect.
My husband is a urban search and rescue team captain for the fire department and knows Mr. Robinson personally so he has been there many times and they don't have running water or 🔌 at all they speak only Hawaiian from what my husband says my husband bought a house for his brother and his family many years ago on Kauai so 😮😮
they've been my friends for 45 years
Much of the Big Island doesn't have running water, that is why they have cisterns. Unless you live near Kona or Hilo you're on your own.
How do they get basic supplies?
Barges from Kauai bring supplies regularly. People who live on the island have family and commute to Kauai often.
It’s not some closed off place where the residents never have contact with the outside world.
Only a couple dozen people live there now. The ohana will return to visit but most now live on Kauai’s west side. They go back to be counted as residents but most do not live there.
Was the first settlers language different from the modern Hawaiians who slaughtered them?
there's a barge that goes from Pakala, Kauai to Niihau brah. Some of my classmates at Kekaha School were from Niihau and they didn't look like they were controlled by the Robinsons. What U talking bout?
Kawananakoa looks mostly white in this generation.
All the Ali’i look white… when British men came to Hawaii with money they wanted to marry Ali’i wahine… like my ancestors. That’s where the first Hapa Haoles on the islands came from. The first Hapa Haoles in Hawaii were descended from Ali’i
We're the people who were sacrificed happy to do so? Was it an honor to be chosen? We're they enemies?
Many sacrifices were taken from the "kauwā," they were considered the lowest class of people consisting of servants, slaves, and outcasts. They could never move above their class and they could never marry anyone from a higher class either. As far as being happy or honored to be chosen, stories tell of kauwā running from the mū, the body catchers, whose job it was to find the sacrifices. So they probably didn't feel to pleased about it. Other sacrifices were kapu breakers, prisoners of war, and enemies of the ali'i.
@@MysteriesofHawaii Thank you for responding. "Outcast" could mean someone not perfect..mentally deficient or physically impaired? Either way, I would still run from the mu. The idea of human sacrifice feels like some residual influence from a Mayan culture.
lol
maika’i loa mea
Jeff r and I hung out there..alot..aloha
The robinsons own them when disasters happens the fire department can go on there but have to leave immediately after because only true Hawaiians can go on the island my husband has been on there many times they don't have even electricity on the island
The robinsons own the island now they have
owned it for years
You cannot buy something that’s NOT FOR SALE! Who sold it to begin with?
No , actually the Hawaiian Monarchy at the time sold Niihau for 10k dollars . You can blame Kamehameha IV for that .
It would of been good to get hear of the dialect
Haku haku from the land of the Chumash the owners of the land from Los Angeles in the south to Paso Robles in the North. These stories are of the utmost importance for our children especially, the haole' have ruined our indigenous world as much as they can but we are recovering. Tani he'(thank you)
Imagine being born on an island, comes a family and have the authority to buy and island.
Don't the inhabitants have the right to their island?
I agree that the haoles are indeed vampires.
However , is it the holes fault that the kingdom of Hawaii was in the stone age up until the 17th century or so which made them easy prey for the Americans. If it wasnt the USA , it would have been China, or Russia .
Robinsons are my friends
Like in palestine
good. I ha heard for years about the hawaiian man that was shot but killed the shooter. I think it is also interesting that K1;came fom the almost most young island. TY
Looks like some of these images are from the Bishop Museum.
ASE HEKA AMEN RA AHO MOORE NATION GRAND RISING KARMA ❤❤❤❤❤
This is where all the drugs come before being put on small boats and sent to the other islands 😮
The original 'Native' Hawai'ians did not own the Land, the Land Owned the People, same as on the Mainland and most indigenous cultures. The concept of 'Land Ownership' was introduced by the 'Western Civilizations' but was very quickly embraced by the Hawai'ians where the privileged upper caste were granted titles to large amounts of 'Free Land'. They understood the value of a quick profit for easy-money and 'sold' their land to more intelligent and industrious people that turned the land into vast fortunes for many generations. Meanwhile, the greedy and short-sighted Hawai'ians quickly ran out of land and spent their money unwisely. And now they claim their land was stolen and want it back... The USA did NOT steal their land, they sold away their country. By allowing Missionaries to bring diseases and religion to their paradise, they lost everything. By choosing to not fight for their Kingdom, it was taken like a ripe fruit by a monkey.
Great story telling, but the background music is 😜
This is Hawaiian history.
@@Pickiekittieskoonz yes, I realize that, but the oral tradition of sharing history is called “talking story.” It was not my intention to diminish their history by referring to it in such a way.
OHA, CNHA, Alulike all not interested in condemnation via SOH. Leave it be
They are vampires
That’s what I call a real Hawaiian.
AMERICANIZM IZ SATANIZM
Dont forget the part about tahiti and samoa finding hawaii. There was no indigenous people when they found Hawaii.
Ah yes, the ol" "we're all immigrants" narrative used to rationalize ethnic cleansing and genocide. Keep up the good work!
Which would then allow them to become indigenous, right?
there were also no indigenous samoans before the austronesians arrived
Humuhumu nukuunuku apua’a
I really hate this world. Otherwus i would be inthe land of my ancestors.
With fiat money it is easy for clandestine entities to gain control. God Forbid, Jesus come and establish Your Kingdom. Amen
Humuhumunukunukuapua’a is the name of a fish. What does that have to do with what you’re talking about?
@@DoubleMrE what yo no talk fish?Then no use sayin
@@cajuntimes Yeah brah, I only talk bird (pidgin). 😊🤙🏽✌️
The ROBINSONS had their thing together. What happenned to the rest of you?!
the colonizers were fakahz das why
WTF??
Be careful what You say..Most living things on this planet don’t want Hawaiians to succeed.
maybe if the queen and the hawaiins had showed some guts and fought they would have be worthy of succeeding.
@@JJ-gm4ck so if upper Europe countries like the Scottish,Russians,Germans etc. had GUTS! Then they would of stand up to their tyrants instead of fleeing to Great Britain,being an eye sore to the Queen and then being put on the mayflower and send overseas. That’s da kinda guts Your talking about?? Just ask the Indians on their land to the blacks in Africa if they had guts too?
Social media made every gutless lying backstabbing wanna be’s a key board hero!
Easy to talk about guts when one wasn’t there!
I wouldn't say that most living things don't want Hawaiians to succeed, but yes it's true, many haoles came from many places and told plenty lies to the Hawaiian people. They took the land from the Hawaiians , they bastardized the culture for the benefit of the tourist industry, they rerouted the streams on Kauai so they could irrigate the surface industry. The west side of Kauai is like a desert today because of this . Waimea town, Hanapepe, Eleele, were all lush and tropical 200 years ago, but George Norton Wilcox came to Kauai and literally changed the climate so that his crops would flourish, and they did!
Kaahumanu pilgrimage in 1800's? Isn't this how the island's became Ha Wa i'i? Ka i'i? Al i'i?
Ha wa i'i pono i ke Al i'i? 🫵😊
Malama malama
The robinsons own them when disasters happens the fire department can go on there but have to leave immediately after because only true Hawaiians can go on the island my husband has been on there many times they don't have even electricity on the island
The robinsons own the island now
I lived there.. a haole boy
The robinsons own them when disasters happens the fire department can go on there but have to leave immediately after because only true Hawaiians can go on the island my husband has been on there many times they don't have even electricity on the island
The robinsons own the island now they have owned it for years
The robinsons own them when disasters happens the fire department can go on there but have to leave immediately after because only true Hawaiians can go on the island my husband has been on there many times they don't have even electricity on the island
The robinsons own the island now they have
owned it for years