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Why reconnect with ancestral knowledge

Cultivate your mana

Knowing where you come from, what your ancestors accomplished, and how they were able to do it can help you tap into your mana as a source of empowerment, vitality, and purpose.

Gain new understanding

Over many generations, our ancestors cultivated functional and unique ways of understanding and engaging with the world. These ways of understanding can clear confusion that comes from the constraints of many modern paradigms.

Deepen your sense of belonging

Moanan/Pasifika wisdom, for thousands of years, has appreciated and nurtured the intricate web of connections that binds us temporally, ecologically, functionally, and spiritually. In today's world, this sense of belonging is vital.

Guiding Principles for the Learning Process

Like the culture itself, this website is a living resource.

We rely on and are deeply grateful for community feedback and insights from various Moanan/Pasifika scholars, artists, elders, and activists. This website will continue to grow and evolve based on that dialogue.

This learning process takes patience and never ends.

There is no singular destination to be reached in this process. It will be different at different times for different people. You can take a break from the material and come back here whenever you need to.

The goal is gaining access to our ancestors' ways of seeing and being.

Our ancestors speak to us through giving us new ways of orienting to and engaging with our world. When we learn, it is not just knowledge of facts and rules-based norms, but new ways of understanding.

We are responsible for negotiating between the past and the future.

We must learn from the past and live with responsibility for the future. Within and without, we must tend to the tensions and symmetries between the different cords whose intersection is us.

The work extends to our hands.

We must put what wisdom is gained into action in our own lives for the betterment of our families and communities.

Mālō e lava mai

Welcome to the Fale

Why reconnect with ancestral knowledge

Cultivate your mana

Gain new understanding

Deepen your sense of belonging

Deepen your sense of belonging

Guiding Principles for the Learning Process

Like the culture itself, this website is a living resource.

This learning process takes patience and never ends.

The goal is gaining access to our ancestors' ways of seeing and being.

We are responsible for negotiating between the past and the future.

The work extends to our hands.

How to Use this Site

Mālō e lava mai

Welcome to the Fale

Why reconnect with ancestral knowledge

Cultivate your mana

Gain new understanding

Deepen your sense of belonging

Deepen your sense of belonging

Guiding Principles for the Learning Process

Like the culture itself, this website is a living resource.

This learning process takes patience and never ends.

The goal is gaining access to our ancestors' ways of seeing and being.

We are responsible for negotiating between the past and the future.

The work extends to our hands.

How to Use this Site

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