Living Off the Land in Hawaii | Explorer
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- Correspondent J.J. Kelley travels to Hawaii to meet with a group of people who are living off the land like their ancestors.
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Some Hawaiian citizens believe the extra work involved in "living off the land" makes one appreciate food more. What are your thoughts on this type of consumption?
They should be able to simply be Human...
Aren't you meant to be helping preserve wild life and not promoting and gloryfiying hunting. The native modern population could never sustain this type of life style. Seems like you are constantly promoting hunting lately? Maybe you promote traditionanl tribal kenyans and get some to hunt the 1st african panther that's been seen in a century. Maybe EDUCATE yourselves on the call to nature falancy. Humans arent natural anymore ffs! Ignorant BS from Nat Geo makes me sick
Thanks again Natgeo for this extremely interesting doc with incredible footage and fascinating hunters.
@@Raging__Savage did you watch the video ? sounds like the message was not heard
Chee! 🤙
Right on Kimi! Love it when she said: "The first thing an animal is taught is how to find food and water. I don't get how having this knowledge and skills makes us primitive, yet not knowing any of it somehow makes us civilized". Thank you Kimi
I really go locked on that sentence, it's gold.
I know right.. it is Gold! Whatever she says.. it's just👌😘
It is primitive because such people are still stuck in the lower slab of Maslow pyramid, once we remove the concern of food then people can think about higher level functions and not about finding food.
I'd like to know how many times she dove down 90 ft to get that fish?
@@DaLakewoodian
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As a hawaiian myself . I do believe in this type of living. It make you appreciate what you have and teaches you gratitude... mahalos to our elders for taking the time to teach us these things . Give a child a fish feed him for a day teach him to fish feed him for a lifetime....
This is awesome! I agree with you as well because some people do take life for granted.
Yes, when you have to grow your own food, or, hunt for your own food, you have reverence for the food.
Alohaaaaaaaa ❤
I'm vegetarian and I totally support this. I think it's the right way to think. It's amazing.
Glad I’m not the only vegetarian who understands and supports “subsistence living” I dream of having a homestead one day
@John no, if everyone/every family hunted and grew crops for THEMSELVES then our community would be thriving
John you sound stupid😂
@John That makes no sense at all
As a vegan, I agree. we eat meat nowadays out of convenience, not survival. but these people do it to survive. I can respect that.
I'm amazed for how long she can dive down there with 1 breath
she took a breath half way down.
@@UncleT0ny lol
@@UncleT0ny please tell me u are joking
@@danieljohnson4994 yes, stupid comments get stupid replies
Imagine the DT opportunities.... :D
*"We're not just killing for fun. For us to survive something has to die"* If that's not a line in a movie then it should be!!
Every animal I kill I thank them for giving me and my family life. As we locals say "Mahalo Ke Akua" Thank you our Akua. He or she gives us nourishment and life. As Pele protects us, Ke Akua o ke Kai nourishes our body with fresh fish.
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@@rajshreekhara6553 Even if you're vegetarian things must die to feed you
@@808Cummins thats beautiful 🙏🏿🤙🏿
rap game bob barker that almost sounds like it’s from Avatar
More documentaries on living off the land please🌎🌏🌍
Just letting you know this episode was some what not wrong cause they have 5 star restaurants all over the island and especially around the more famoso location full of tourist.
Of course most people would agree.
Come over to Ukraine and see it yourself ;)
A bit more in depth though please. This video was like "Fish for your food" for first graders. You can learn more reading Jack London's Call of the Wild, which I recommend to EVERYONE.
People can live off the land. It’s the government that doesn’t allow people to do so.
Much respect to Justin for thanking the animal for its sacrifice.
@Mr Bruh I remember hearing this about native American culture, I thought it was so beautiful that they showed such respect and gratefulness, not only in their ritual but with using every single part of the animal that they could.
show respect and love by not killing them!!
@@rajshreekhara6553 ah yes, let's not kill an invasive species on the brink of destroying the entire food chain, causing millions of animals from various species to slowly starve to death, and go extinct.
@@Riverside1432 Both animals featured in the video, especially the lionfish.
Yeah people demonize hunting all the time but its an incredibly spiritual and humane way to get food
I had the pleasure of living there for 3 years because of the military. I became friends with the locals and let me tell you Hawaii is one of the greatest places to live on this 🌎.
Nature is a blessing
Agreed! except only thing like any tropical climate are the mosquitos :( They were bad when i was in Maui
What military branch were you in
FELISHA+ I'VE BEEN TO ALL 4 ISLANDS....COST OF LIVING IS SKY HIGH BUT IT IS BEAUTIFUL
10:54 As it should be. Most people forget that in order for something to survive, something else must give its life. Gratitude is the most important concept here, yet the one most forgotten.
Hey Rick, I've been vegan for 20+ years. When I eat an apple that has fallen on the ground, is the apple giving it's life? By the way I lived in Hawaii for 13 years and know many spear fisherman, this isn't an attack on omnivores, I'm just correcting your misinformation. The idea that something must give it's life for something else to survive is non sense.
Rick Bailey i dont have a problem with hunting and living off the land as these people do although it makes me a but sad ngl but factory farming is terrible and unhealthy
This is very much Native American tradition. Some tribes have gatherings to pray for the animals they are going to kill that season. It is a beautiful thing.
Andrew Hall A plant is just as alive as anything else. When you eat that apple you’re killing what could have been another tree. Plants aren’t here to be our food, they’re here to survive just as the pig was.
Rick, very well said!
Our planet is more fragile than we think and we're the biggest threat to it. We must learn to live in harmony with nature and pay our respects as we take a life for nourishment to survive. This mini-documentary is excellent and I feel like a lot more people need to watch it.
"Connecting over conquering"
We humans often forget that we are a part of the nature.
Speak for yourself lol
part of nature which is destroying nature.
@Athens Greece Not sure when I said you didn't have a right to live but go off lol
@Athens Greece Agriculture, logging, and mining are among the biggest drivers of deforestation. Do you eat crops, use wood, or own anything made of metal?
Species are going extinct because of climate change, which is a result of burning fossil fuels for power and transportation. Do you use electricity or travel in a vehicle that burns petroleum?
3:45 .. what an amazing camouflage.
I have a Hawaiian friend and her family lives off the land there. I think it's a beautiful thing, they hunt their own fish and share within their communities. Bravo.
It must be scary though going in the water.🦈
I just admire the way Kimi and Justin think about survival. My favorite was, Kim's Garden and how important Justin thought it was to pay respect to the animal!!!
Meanwhile people who have been hunting and gathering sustainably for generations are seeing their lands taken over for mining, agrobusiness, and tourism...look at the Amazon, the Congo, the Kalahari, the forests of Indonesia and the Philippines...
@@dallasoostenbrink5848 Libertarianism is quite comfortable with capitalism.
happens in America also, i live in Wisconsin, i seen good homes and farms lost for highways, factories, and parking lots,, my city removed 30 families from their middle class homes to make a parking lot for a hospital
Gregory Everson that’s heartbreaking
The only reason they lived the way they did was becaise they didnt possess the tech to do otherwise...as soon as they could they changed...Look at the Amazon....Its not Americans destroying it, its the citizens of the countries where its happening. Native American people burned forests to hunt, dammed rivers, farmed as largenof plots as they could and happily accepted improvements in technology...Do you think pyramids built by thousands of people in areas was good for the environment??? No, it destroyed the area around it for years, congregating people in cities causes waste issue, that in the past caused major declines in populations of both people and animals. Everu civilization in history had cities with massive negative enviromental impacts..These problems plague all of humanity and always has..Many scientists claim that prehistoric people are largely responsible for the mega-mammals extinctions do to over-hunting..How is that sustainable??
and Hawaiians!
I moved a month ago to the Big Island of Hawaii. Learning this way of life, helping support one another, and coexisting with nature and the land has been the biggest eye opening experience for me. I plan to keep learning the ways of the Hawaiin culture, and living the rest of my life in such a way. Awesome insight video to the survival of the Hawaiin Islands Natgeo
what a world it would be if we could all live like this.
Islander girl here... how much I really wanted to be like her. Glad that I’m practicing some fishing skills,😭 and wanting to go spear fishing.🤙🏽
Liné Kasiano she thic tho
$napchat ?
Living on an island must be a dream!
Natgeo has some good cameramen/woman
@3 Subscribers Without Any Videos!!!!! Actually its camerahumans
3 Subscribers Without Any Videos!!!!! Better than being a dumb ugly Trump supporter
@3 Subscribers Without Any Videos!!!!! I think leftists just usually want to hear women included as well as men but who knows
Its a mans job no woman
MegaSkilla I’m a DemSoc and I’ve literally never heard that.
Im glad my dad taught me how to free dive and catch fish 🐟 in the deep!!!! Born and raised in Oahu Hawaii 😎🤙🏼 Much props to this woman!!!!!
Guy29 ツ Boy wish I were you
Wow eating natural food and fresh from the ocean and awesome. And having a good community and neighborhood are blessings. God bless everyone 😘
Connecting over conquering. I like that.
civilization's goals in a nutshell
@@SeazBreeze "civilization" has never connected it has always tried to conquer
Connect to the earth fruits and veggies only who am I tho
@Timothy Goff I was sure somebody would say something like this.
The words is for america. Lol
She has a point...
COVID19 has affected much of food supplies...
Nearly died when Kimmi took a deep breath and went underwater..what a relief once she came back up and took that breath 😭
She can hold her breath +/--4mins...
@@harrymiram6621 The divers who can only hold a breath a min. won't find any fish close in. Oahu's fish population is almost gone.
Kid: Hey mom we ran out of food!
Mom: Ok, I'll go to the ocean be right back. YIT
I used to live on Molokai one of the most remote islands there and this is about as accurate as you can get, learned how to hunt and fish from a very young age. Now I live in California where everything is a mile away. What a luxury we have
A very beautiful island...friendly warm people...feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to visit
The fact you can hold your breath that long and to hunt underwater at the same time is awesome
Kimi is 100% right. Self reliance is a great skill to have. Especially on an island.
this woman is a very skillful hunter... love to watch... great spearfishing.. credits to Natgeo and all in this video... keep it up
Kimi is everything I look for in a woman, I love her
Amen
my thoughts exactly . She's a slice of perfection. her outlook on what life needs to be., her natural beauty, I'd be trying to give her a ring and a baby bump....
Shes a catch.
Wait till those Hawaiian genetics kick she will be more woman than u expect
That's my baby mama so chill out though
I don't know much about spear fishing.... but I can grow a mean garden, both veggie and floral.... root crops too.
That ! Was one of the most inspirational things , I have ever ! seen ! More power to you all !
The level of their lifestyle is Aquaman.
That's nothing compare to the bajao people
@@lebronirving8367 That's nothing compared to Canadians in winter.
Wow a piece of video even more benign and PG than this one.
Meanwhile, this is an everyday thing that everyone does in the pacific islands 🇫🇯🇨🇰🇼🇸🇹🇴
Even in Baja California
And Alaska in a way
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Yup
@IMxYOURxDADDY 😂😂😂
This was worth the watch. Authentic Emotion. So from the spirit.
This girl is my hero. She rocks.
How awesome that life would be😍
@Hawaa Sarwary I imagine it would be for sure but a very rewarding and beautiful one
its chill living, but no all easy...wooohooo
i’m honestly inspired..
@010steveo Better than sitting behind a computer for 9 hours a day, no?
@010steveo Sure you'd love to make that money but by human nature we always crave what we dont have, so when you get thay money, you'll want more. Happiness lays within, not on external factors.
Wow, she is amazing.
This 14 minute video is the life I dream & fantasize about everyday. This is my goal in life to someday move to Hawaii & live off the land. It actually makes me feel very emotional just thinking about it. 🥺 I just need to save more money & have the balls to make this my reality.
Study Hawaii . It’s not a fantasy land.
It's impressive when someone can free dive like that to fish.
Hawaii is such a beautiful place
COST OF LIVING IS SUPER HIGH, WHICH MAKES IT UGLY
Absolutely incredible story. Really enjoyed this Nat Geo special, well done J.J. Kelley...well done!
Welcome to our world. Nothing beats the classics people. We eat fresh food straight from the garden, fresh caught fish from the river and plenty suppies of wild animals like boars from the mountais. I'm very proud of my culture and how we were taught to live. My granma is 86 years old and she's still strong and healthy.
"Connecting over conquering" we should here that straight out of the womb
People from Dubai wouldn’t survive - wouldn’t even be able to get water from their kitchen fridge without a housemaid
They will survive for awhile with their vast storage underground bunkers that could last eternity. Then they emerge as "Molocks". Is that how it is spelled?
That's one sad state MIRAAS! It made one man's/woman's arms & legs pretty much useless while demanding theirs needs to arrive through their helpers!
So, I guess, that's how helpless they are!
Dubai is not an island idiot, maybe you should read a map before talking about surviving
@@ayshakou7350
😂😂😂😂
@@ayshakou7350 i think you didnt get the joke 😂😂😂
I almost drowned watching this
Indira Espinal 😂
😂🤣😂🤣😅😅
makes me wanna go back to Hawaii and live there forever, what a beautiful life...
I think the point is to live off the land where you already are in a sustainable way. Not gentrify and colonize more places.
Small space - small land mass - if people keep coming , our lifestyle. Resources and access to resources more than likely will be threatened. Maybe wanna reconsider coming here to live. Come visit and experience her beauty but not necessarily live here. This message goes for all outsiders.
I’m in love with her instantly.
There are too many people on O’ahu now... if everyone were to try to live off the land right now there would be nothing left. The infrastructure itself is breaking down due to the masses of humans living in what was once only a footpath.
Leilani do you live in o'ahu?
I moved away recently but was raised on the north shore and my family still lives there.
thats what i was thinking. with the amount of people on the islands. all starting to go fish and hunt for everyone its not sustainable. sure you can live of the land. grow your own food. but the way they made this video is as if hunting and fishing can feed everybody and be a solution for the huge import thats going on
True. People don't realize how small most islands are in reality.
Not really, humans adapt.
That woman has the best life imaginable ☺️🍍
Ryan May not true I live in Hawaii and I disagree
@@radiantembral3014 or Hawaii isn't for everyone lol there's no "right way to live" just have to enjoy yourself
@@radiantembral3014 Exactly. That's why people can't be telling others they're living the wrong way. It's different for everyone and not everyone finds it unfortunately
Really great video! Wonderful message, and it was very well made overall.
This deeply wounds me and is so beautiful to see, all at the same time. How far we’ve strayed..
If we did this more we wouldnt have so much pollution nor have the need for money...well for the most part. Maybe we should bring back the barter system
completely agree!
Then there would be overfishing and the extinction of certain species
@@itsmjcn i mean either way its still gonna happen.
@@itsmjcn that's happening way more with fishing boats though. 1 boat can catch thousands of fish in a minute but 1000 people would probably take 2 days to catch 1000 fish.
That's a beautiful way of living. Mad props to them!
Absolutely awesome, this just shows that we don't need money for anything, all we need is each other and access to resources, if we all shared this way of thinking for everything we do the world would be a far more better place.
Well said however with the huge influx of outsiders, resources and access to resources are threatened as people occupy land.
Natgeo makes the most organic form of documentaries.
This could be amazing as a 360 video
The dream life. I am already in love with Kimi and her lifestyle
I'm captivated she is a lioness a very beautiful one and a badass how awesome is she👍🤜🤛🇺🇸🦅
She is amazing people like her are the kind of people that make it
Shes gaining strength & self sustaining person
*You have no boss. No 8 to 5 life cycle. Healthy life. Free best quality fresh food. Beautiful changing unlimited environment. And we have.. corporate life = modern slavery.*
And your daily minim requirement of Radioactive Cesium 137.
I agree ( only for two days) then I wanna go back to "civilization"
Well start your own business.
Peaceful slavery
even walden went back after a couple years. and even then, you cannot just pillage the game year round
I'm living of the land.
*goes spearfishing in the sea
The land is everywhere and everything
Pretty sure thats just a figure of speech..
Which school you went to?
@@kayonilieman3806 the University of the Pacific Ocean. I majored in wreck diving. Made away with a half mil. I pay it back to the Island community as a portion of investments.
@@andytaylor1588 I was not talking to you
I love Hawai'i and Hawai'ian people
That’s absolutely awesome!!!
Very beautiful. You know in some parts of the Philippines especially from where I live, bartering is common. Just harvesting and hunting. No money involved.
I cannot wait to live this life, in this beautiful state.
Exceptionally fascinating.... Thank you NG for sharing this on CZcams.
Connecting over conquering.
There's so much to learn from these people.
Every country in the World should do this to cut down on massive container-ships and freight brought in by thousands of planes everyday, and only import goods they need or don't have. It would help the environment so much.
there'd also be overkill of local species to the point of extinction
Strangely enough, the fisher-woman in the video is also playing a part in "over-fishing" of the Earth's oceans. The pig hunter is in balance as Hawaii has a massive wild boar problem.
Now that's an actual strong independent woman. I'm in love with Kimmy!😍
4:59 “and it’s evidence that I can take care of myself” I felt that one chief on G.O.D.
This is awesome, not primitive to me, but self reliance. One could live anywhere and in many types of different situations. Love it.
Really great video! Good job NG, I'd love to see more hunting//fishing nature videos.
This reminds me of the movie "Avatar"
3 years later, Kimi & Justin mission and lifestyle are so true.
I visited the big island a few weeks ago and got the chance to visit and see things similar to this first hand. It was an amazing experience and I made some new friends! Can't wait to go back again, love all the fresh food. The freshly smoked fish and boar was some of the best I've ever tasted. It's a peaceful and happy place to be. If you haven't been off the beaten track in your adventures you have no idea what you're missing!
Very inspiring! Much love from Florida
-- *can I join the party?*
-- "I suppose"........ Like wtf 😂
why wtf??
Dude didn't bring anything with him...
Awesome! My friends and I make fishing and dive videos here in Hawaii and the satisfaction of catching, cleaning and cooking fish to feed your friends and family is a humbling experience.
Mahalo Nat Geo for showing our lifestyle!
eh i watch u guys
Those meaningful lines should be in movies. Just wow.
Honestly, Hawaii is the best place to visit! Especially during summer! They have fantastic foods, incredible nightlife, beautiful scenery, and very friendly neighbourhood too. I still remembered hula dancing, love it! Miss the place so much. I'll be back! Wait for me! Don't go party without me! Thanks NG.
...us Havvaiian kine say that the mainland is a nice place to visit, but we could never live there...
@Sinjinbin 64 - What basically happened was, u spent big bucks for plane tickets, flew a couple thousand miles, got played n hustled by the tourist industry...and never even seen or experienced Hawai'i.
best place to visit? the most expensive tourist destination on the planet? lol
Sinjinbin 64 yes, please don’t come to Hawai’i unless you are willing to pay a lot
Haha you never went to real Hawaii with the Hawaiians
Also Hawaii doesn't have harsh winters .. it's close to the equator
OMG my girl!! I “met” her for the first time in the Fishpeople documentary, and thought she was this coolest mermaid huntress. Thanks for sharing this cool story!
Great selection of hunters with meaningful and useful perspectives.
Wow, Kimi - A beautiful spirit with lots of positive ambition for change! May your infectious positivity perpetuate and spread like wildfire :-)
Imagine a currency collapse. Most people would be screwed. Many don’t have weapons to defend themselves, or have the knowledge of how to survive.
Most amazing way of thinking and living. Thats my goal to live like these...
I thought the design on her suit was just fashion, but it’s actually a camouflage. Looks awesome!
Excellent. That's the way we all should live. Depending more on the Earth. Planting. Hunting. I guarantee we would consume way less than what we consume today and people would be way healthier!
Exactly
Possibly 😎 LMFAO
Great stories . . from real people.
Really beautiful outlook she presented. Finally I feel people are connecting back to the roots to care for nature and look out for each other in a sustainable way. Keep it up Hawaii.
5:51, in some region in Indonesia this kind of culture still alive until now...
''connecting over conquering''
Beautiful island 😍
You people from Mainland visiting the island. Respect the Culture and the Nature!
I don’t think hunting and gathering your own food makes you primitive, I think it makes you more civilized.
Amen brother wise words
Love this Video, Love Hawai’i :)
Girl: When I go into the water,
I become the ocean..
Me: I think you mean it literally because your suit is camouflage
Keep the documentaries like this coming! Love the hunting, the respect, the facts, and the truth in this video. This is by far my favorite video Nastional Geographic has made yet. Thank you NG
I think it's important that everyone start learning and practicing survival skills, because sooner or later something is going to happen, and if you don't know how to survive off the land, then you probably won't survive