HULA, WASN'T IT?
Tannya: AMAZING.
John: SO AMAZING WE WANT TO
GO BACK TO MIKEY WITH MORE.
HE'S JUST ABOUT READY AT THE
POLYNESIAN CULTURAL CENTER.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT POI.
FOOD.
Tannya: YOUR KULEANA.
IT'S A WEEK LONG CELEBRATION
THERE FOR THE MOANIKEALA.
THERE'S FIEWSK AND FOOD.
John: HERE'S MIKEY.
READY TO POUND SOME POI?
HERE WE ARE GO.
MIKEY.
Mikey: HI, GUYS.
TODAY I'M WITH LONO LOGAN.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE
MOANIKEALA HULA FESTIVAL.
IT'S CELEBRATING HULA ABOUT
EVERYTHING ABOUT THE HAWAIIAN
CULTURE.
YOU'RE GOING TO BE POUNDING SOME
POI.
COULD YOU YOU TELL EVERYBODY WHAT
THEY'VE CAN EXPECT?
I'M GOING TO BE POUNDING POI
BUT SHARINGS THE HISTORY OF
KALO.
HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO
HAWAIIANS.
A LITTLE BIT OF THE DIFFERENT
VARIETIES.
WE HAVE ABOUT 30 VARIETIES HERE.
DIFFERENT ONES.
AND THEN ACTUALLY POI POUNDING.
Mikey: TELLING EVERYBODY
POUNDING.
ABOUT YOUR GRANDMA.
THAT'S WHAT I HEARD.
MY GRANDPARENTS WERE THE
FIRST -- PART OF THE FIRST
GENERATION TO HELP START PCC,
POLYNESIAN CULTURAL CENTER.
MY GRANDPARENTS WERE THE FIRST
HAWAIIAN MANAGERS I GUESS YOU
CAN SEE, LUNAS.
THE ORIGINAL VILLAGERS AT THE
MISSION HOME AREA.
MY GRANDMA BABY-IS THE-SAT ME.
TAKING CARE OF THE KALO AND
POUNDING THE POI.
PREPARING IT TO THE TOURISTS.
I WAS EXPOSED TO THAT.
EARLIEST MEMORY HER TEACHING ME
IS ABOUT THREE YEARS OLD.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WAS DOING.
COME HERE.
BUSTED.
[LAUGHTER]
AND SHE WAS ALREADY POUNDING,
YEAH.
AND SHE PUT ME ON THE BOARD AND
CAME BEHIND ME.
PUT MY HANDS ON THE STONE AND
PUT HER HANDS ON MINE.
JUST LIKE THAT.
AND THEN THAT'S -- I -- TO FAST
FORWARD 40 YEARS, TEN YEARS AGO
I STARTED.
Mikey: I LOVE IT.
IF YOU GREW UP IN HAWAII, YOU
KNOW POI IS A HUGE STAPLE OF
BEING A KEIKI.
FOR EVERYBODY COMING TO THE
FESTIVAL WHO DON'T KNOW ANYTHING
ABOUT POI BUT ARE WANTING TO
LEARN, WHY IS POI SO SACRED TO
THE HAWAIIAN CULTURE?
IT STARTS FROM THE BEGINNING
OF TIME.
IT'S A PART OF HOW WE COME
ABOUT.
YOU HAVE SKY FATHER, EARTH
MOTHER.
THEY HAVE A UNION, THEY GREAT
UNION.
THEY HAVE A DAUGHTER.
SHE HAS A CHILD.
THEY BURY HIM FROM THE GROUND.
FROM THAT GROUND BECOME THE KALO
PLANT.
SO FROM THERE, THE KALO WAS
CREATED BEFORE US.
AND SHE HAS ANOTHER BABY.
AND THAT BABY IS THE FIRST
HAWAIIAN KANAKA.
FIRST MALE.
FROM THERE, WE STEM FROM.
SO FOR HAWAIIANS, KALO IS OUR
ANCESTOR.
LIKE YOUR GRANDPARENTS, THE PAY
YOU TAKE CARE OF THEM IS
INVESTIGATION.
SPECIAL.
IT'S A PART OF WHO WE ARE.
IT'S CHERISHED AND LOOKED AT IT
THAT WAY.
Mikey: PERFECT.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING
ME.
WE ARE AT POLYNESIAN CULTURAL
CENTER.
IT IS THE 29TH ANNUAL MOANIKEALA
HULA FESS.
YOU CAN GET YOUR INFORMATION AT
POLYNESIAN.com.
I'M GOING TO LEARN HOW TO POND