A Samoan structure on Oahu's Eastern Shore could be removed, but some want it to stay
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2022
- Saute Sapolu built the fale hut and surrounding materials to teach future generation of the Samoan history, but the state may force him to leave. For the news you need to know, visit www.KITV.com.
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They should take down the tents in Waikiki instead.
All the homeless camp as well
Nahh they not gonna do shet
Right all rubbish they making and Harding
HE'S NOT HARMING ANY ONE LEAVE UNCLE ALONE, IF HE'S NOT IN THE WAY IF HE'S NOT CAUSING ISSUES OF ANY KINE LET HIM BE #IMPROUDTOBEPOLYNESIAN #POLYNESIANPRIDE
Let it be. This is what everyone needs to see and learn.
But if you didn't pay for a permit or ask permission... F that!
It's educational art it's not harmful in any manner
I'd say let him be ,he's not bother anyone but because its Hawaii cry sadly it will be removed in due time ..being Hawaiian and tahitian..God bless uce 🤙🙏
Unko we love you! Das why we Hawaiians want our land back, THIS IS POLYNESIA✊🏾
This is Hawaii.
It doesn’t look like dirty.
This guy is also a legendary football player from way bacc look him up🇼🇸🇦🇸
Nhp 🔴👌
This guy was an all star and a beast when he moved out of Samoa and played football along with his cousin Jesse sapolu ,
Take it down? I think we need more around Oahu to remind us of the past. Awesome job Uncle. Cheers to you!
I was wondering why this was a story, then I seen the beach is in Hawaii Kai haha
That's exactly what I said. It's only an issue because it's in Hawaii Kai.
it cost nothing to built, leave it on alone.
Can someone tell me if this structure is still here now today in October? 2022?🖖🏻☮️
No they took it down, but the man still there..
I believe he’s homeless, would drive by to range every week when it was still open, but he still puts things up but nothing like how it is in the video.
He shows how the homeless people once lived. Before all these shopping malls and whatever. Plus close to Costco. Cheap food.
Just like your father the devil John 8:44. The creator gave us everything food ,clothing and shelter, we didn't need devils like you here.
He is pretty cool art.
It's unique and beautiful! Leave it and him alone, please!
Looks better than the rail and cost tax payers $0.
Would the state give the guy a permit then leave him alone?
The state gotta approve his build especially making sure its not hawaiian if its hawaiian they gotta take it down quickly.
It looks pretty harmless. When I was a little kid we lived on Portlock Road and the Samoan folks used to come around and trim our coconut trees and harvest the plumeria flowers from our trees - those trees were huge and productive. One of the Samoan guys showed my little sister the game of mumbledy-peg and he never missed. They always seemed so happy! Good times ....
I wish I knew happy Samoans😳
Nice bro!
Beautiful ART OF NATURE. NO NEED PERMITS, IT'S NATURE!!!
He should have the same rights as any other squatter that takes over land deginated as being for public use.
It’s nice looks clean too then what city and county can do
They original man
It's so beautiful, don't have it taken away leave it alone
We Kaai
leave him alone
This is a living museum. It is priceless in keeping cultural artifacts alive. Museums in CA are paying First Nations crafts people tens of thousands of dollars for traditional baskets woven of native grasses, so carry on, my man. 😊
It's a beautiful thing💞
Try drive to Waianae where you will see nothing but plastic structures .. the state doesn’t really care about the beaches they come out once a month for 4 hrs , 22 vehicles and clear the same people on front of sack and save they Evan miss the ones that have taken over a bus stop 100 yards away .. at least this man not peeing there ….
Why do like
Ok state. how about they focus on the bail reform bill. ugh!
Leave him alone please, he's just trying to share his culture to the people of Hawaii. No harm done.
What if black gangs and Mexican cartels want to share their culture with u it needs to be fair.😂
Easy fix:
1) The state should provide the appropriate permission.
2) Then the state should HIRE Sopolu to maintain the site.
Win-Win:
- The community gets a cultural attraction
- The government officials’ time will be freed up so they can work on actual issues that would benefit their constituents.
😃
I agree with your ideas 100%. Hawaii govt should take all the steps to approve and set Sopolu's project up for sustainability. Make it official with well defined and mutually agreeable process and goals so no side has any thing to ever complain about. Tourists and locals alike want to see real Polynesian life culture and not just only fancy shows. It's like inviting us into your Hale. After government setup, anyone else wanting to establish an educational-cultural exhibit will then have an official process to get approval before they set up on government (city, state, county) land. Mahalo Uncle!
Maunalua could use some diversity
They’re just jealous that they don’t have the skills to make that so they go and take it down😂
Give him a job at PCC. He has work experience picking up/ teaching haole girls about his culture ...😉
Brother of jesse sapolu?
cousin haha
What a fantastic thing this man is doing. More of this please!
I give my permission. It is beautiful & I hope that I can see it one day. From Oakland CA 2022
Haoles No can Give permission.
Yes, leave this man alone 🤙
Why he just doing
OMG leave that little elderly man alone.
Oh, he’s not frail, he’s Samoan.
Nothing state legally owns. There's more actual issues that dlnr doesn't actually do anything only enforcing what they willing to do. Harass the people than anything else
One now - then more will follow and when there’s ten - and they are taking up all the space and taking over the restrooms - then its going to be a problem.
Rent them out as beach cabanas. Many tourists would love to experience them.
Make a CZcams video on how to make one please.
Hawaii is, fortunately, big on preserving its history and crafts, hellz even in the 70s in high school we had a class where we learned some crafts like that. You can find things on youtube and online in general ... just look around ... there are so many useful plants...
A Samoan fale differs slightly from Hawaiian hale. But to see an example of a Polynesian fale, search YT for Ray Mears' World Of Survival S01E04 in Samoa where they built a simple fale made from the wild hibiscus tree, tied together by the afa (sennit) and floored with coral rocks.
The man and his fale are beautiful and should stay. Like the sister says, it's a reminder of what that place used to be. When my dad was a kid that whole area was COUNTRY, and in half a century look what happened! The farmers were evicted and Hawai'i's largest loko i'a was destroyed. People need to know their history.
This one hits close to home because I was a little kid in that area and I remember not only the old Portlock Pier but the clean, thriving bay it was with all kinds of seashells, fish, crabs, sea life of every king, lobsters that would leave their moulted shells on the rocks, etc. It was beautiful. What killed it was, short-term, when they demolished the old pier they damaged the reef like 90%. But that would have been OK except, all the new housing developments put silt, that's continually being put into the bay, fertilizers, pesticides, yadda yadda, into the bay and the last time I was there, sheeze almost 20 years ago as I type, the only shells I found around the area where this guy's fale is, were long-dead ones no signs of live shells. It's very sad!
@@alexcarter8807 mahalo for sharing! It makes me sad knowing how much we've lost 😔
Yeah let’s take down a piece off culture down and leave the drug tents up! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 great job!
Take it down
@@ClarkKent-tg6ls stick to doing drugs loser! Your life is useless
Let him be. Concentrate on all the homeless drug addicts.
Please leave the man’s hard work alone. Yes! He may have not asked for permission but to this Haw’n, it’s a beautiful piece of art...
It's harmless, and looks neat. Would people prefer the guy stay at home watching Fox TV all day? I'll be back in a couple of years and I'll look for him, bring him some Hawaiian Sun.
Government LEAVE this man alone!STOP HARRASSING humanity
You guys not putting KE AKUA FIRST in abiding the natural law of KE AKUA
This is sooooo beautiful, humanity, sustainable living, for the future generations
Let him be. it looks really nice. it is only bothering the Rich people. It looks good to me. He is making hawaii look like the old HAWAII.
Leave the Uce alone, many other pressing priorities await
Ask permission?!!
All the homeless should be doing this! It would be great for the tourists to see an take pictures? Not a eye sowers of tents. Maybe it will be way to solve homelessness? Hawaiian Stile new tourist attraction!!
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Not ALL educational learning is gleaned from established, structured "educators." Procure the necessary permits so that Sapolu & fale are able to continue teaching government entities & other students. It not so much what you learn, it's also about how much you retain! IMO... Government entities could learn much from Sapolu....
Nice!
Better to apologize than ask for permission and be denied. State should invest in him and have teach Polynesian ways to the rest of us living on their land.
❤️😔
They should have left it alone
But it's ok to have homeless tents and trash all over.
Right!? SMH
GREAT IDEA FOR HOUSE OAHU'S HOMELESS,FREE TOO!FALE'S FOR EVERYBODY!
His Toyota needs an oil change.
It’s beautiful. Leave him alone.
Just leave it wth 🤦♀️ it’s culture
Not our culture lol
Leave him alone ! As a Hawaiian I support him and all Polynesians . Your state along with America never even follow your own LAWS to turn Hawaii into a suppose 50th state and in 1893 you invaded our kingdom just like Russia supposedly invaded Ukraine ! I support our Samoan cousins !
I hope one day Hawaiians and other Pacific people in Hawaii will get together to form organizations that caters to the need of their community like the Filipinos do. This includes setting up clinics and educational paths for youths and running candidates for political office to promote legislation and policies that is beneficial for the community. One issue that I think will find general support among islanders is preservation of Hawaiian culture and language, and eventually relinquishing some state-owned lands that were alienated for the kanaka maoli.
@@alelokaoseumu mahalo ! So much I could say on each suggestion negative and positive. The history of the Hawaiians and our kingdom but if your interested in the accurate story read “HAWAII STORY” by Queen Liliuokalani, some of it is boring but the meat of who how and what actually took place is told by none other to who it happened to, down to her time imprisonments in her own palace , from her writings you will realize she was highly educated, her dealings with people so genuine , loving , and honest . How much she so worry for her people , and how heartbreaking it was for her to face those she trusted and how they turned against her .
Leave him alone. Anybody messes with him will receive bad mana.
Leave the guy alone
State go fix the cameras at the airport
Wrong island, wrong nation.
Nah..its not,when Samoa & Hawaii are actually family doh doh
What does the 12 pack of booze in back of “house” mean? 😂🤣👊
You cannot just make any shack on the beach. Gtfoh
Pretty cool. Now if was a homeless camp, would be taken down real fast. Just saying...
Maybe it is a homeless camp...just cooler.
The State mentality is, u build one, here comes the rest. Then u have a homeless encampment . 🤡
You people do know this will spark concern to some if his fale stays up when hawaiians do this its taken down quickly us kanaka's just trying to live on our own land which was illegally stolen for the one's that don't know the truth about this Aina you better start researching follow Dr Keanu sai or professor Chang from UH Manoa campus they'll explain everything about hawaii you people gotta start realizing who's country you really living in.
📢📢📢📢 when hawaiians put things up everybody up in arms why no support them like how everybody support unko right hea
Kamehameha the First was THE FIRST ONE TO STEAL ALL HAWAIIAN LANDS. He did it by MILITARY INVASION, deliberately MURDERING thousands of Hawaiian men, women, and children, who opposed him to the death. He MURDERED the Hawaiian King of Oahu and used the dead body as a HUMAN SACRIFICE to his GOD. Today, the Kamehameha Schools has assets of $14 BILLION, and OWNS THE MOST PRIVATE LAND in Hawaii, USA.
@@ufa621 didn't Samoans and Tongans and other Pacific communities march to Mauna Kea in support of the Hawaiian kupuna who were there? There is such a thing as being "too woke" for your own good. This old man is receiving attention because the news is publicizing it. And if Hawaiians want to build their traditional structures, supporting this man doesn't take away from that. It would actually strengthen their objective of having Polynesian structures accepted without the need for permit on lands that are not being utilized.
@@gregcarter8656 yes he did murder they also had the kapu system back then which was used up until 1819 then was later abolished but that's a different topic. what people fail to realize is the reality and truth of what happened from the illegal overthrow till today. now everyone is on the same page that hawaii became a state in 1959 but that's not the case America used a joint resolution to make it seem like it was a treaty to take over hawaii and that's what's been fed to everyone in hawaii but if you research what is a joint resolution its just a bill or an act now under the united states constitution you cannot use a joint resolution to take over a sovereign country only a treaty can ratify that but America used a joint resolution. ask anyone about the William McKinley high school statue if they have the knowledge they'll tell you its the joint resolution he's holding in his hand.
czcams.com/video/EIOh5KMqXfA/video.html
Truth is power
🙊🙈🙉 Sapolu got permission from IO. He doesn't need permission from "State of Haole!" 😉👍
Well, we did founded Hawaii before it was Hawaii, so technically, it's Samoan land.
Marquesans first, then Tahitians.
😂😂😂
Uce stoooop....soon the Tongans will say Samoa is Tonga.....😒
Nah uce our ancestor pili from savai’i sailed there and conquered the east Polynesians and then united the islands. Hence the name Hawai’i
@@alexcarter8807 Marquesans ARE Tahitian, just like Hawaiians ARE Tahitian. The Marquesas islands were inhabited by Tahitians in the same way that Hawai’i was.
Also, there’s zero evidence to even remotely suggest Hawai’i was inhabited prior to the Tahitians arrival, no artifacts, structures or graves. That theory is based on 2 things, a family on Kaua’i that claims their family was here prior to Tahitians and are from the Marquesas Islands & a racist journalist/author who notoriously went around the world trying to undermine native aboriginals and claim caucasians had a right to all lands on earth, who heard that families story and connected it to menehunes in an effort to claim Hawaiians had no aboriginal rights to Hawai’i because we supposedly weren’t here first.
So how come this guy doesn't get a job at the Polynesian cultural center? And why the f is the haoles say reported but not the locals?
Hawaiians get so much pushback if we want to do something like this, we have to beg, plead, give presentations to convince people to allow it and in the end it’s usually denied or taken down anyways… can we work on allowing Hawaiians to display our own culture here first?!?!
Also while taking pōhaku from the ocean to represent or display or promote his Samoan culture, he is violating the Hawaiian culture which has protocols for the removal & use of pōhaku… just saying.
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‘Ae, kāko’o wau i kēia !
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It's not mostly promoting his Samoan culture. But how we as Polynesian used to live, before all these houses and a ton of structural building we see nowadays. He uses his teachings of weaving that all Polynesian of olden time used that he acquired when he was a child back at his homeland. Polynesian are not as different from eachother. Besides he was using the natural resources around him and it brought no harm to the environment literally just rocks, dead coconut leaves and the coconut husk. Stop hating on it and accept it as a Polynesian structure. Who cares if a Samoan, Tonga, Hawaiian, Tahitian, Niue, Tokelau person built it. At least it's a Polynesian work of art. If your gonna have Aloha in your name on CZcams, use it wisely and accept your Polynesian attributes. Doesn't matter what Polynesian He/She will build or make Polynesia proud!
Agreed.
Stop voting for DEMOCRATS
Ufa kefe
Give me a coffee
Who u oofa kefe eh?? Kai pote
Kai
Hukai a
Be pono fake state!
GET RID OF DAT RUBBISH
What rubbish???
He's not entitled to build on state land that really belongs to the HAWAIIANS!!!! Go back to somoa and build, build, build there it's your land!!!!!
Shuddup haole
Yes I'm white and I approve this message
@@invincible_1014 nobody ask you haole,lol 😉😂
@Joyce K Sad… if a Hawaiian did that in Samoa on the beach, no one would tell them to go back to Hawaii! We look at other polys as family and under the same umbrella of origin. Don’t let that European mindset be divisive in your life and Community. He’s just showing ALL of our POLY ISLAND CULTURE
@@rosalindalay4499 who you talking to,lol