Kaka'olelo: Traditions of Oratory and Speech Making local issues Throughout their journey

Throughout their journey

He has taught courses in map librarianship and geographic information at the University of Hawaii and Northern Virginia Community College

—The San Francisco Chronicle

even for a clearly-talented writer

Kaka'olelo: Traditions of Oratory and Speech Making local issues Throughout their journeyIn one of his last published papers, Te Rangi Hiroa (Sir Peter Buck), the only Polynesian director of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, asked what happened to Hawaiian oratory and speech making. Oratory is renowned throughout the Pacific, especially in Polynesia. But who were, and are, the great Hawaiian orators? What are the most memorable of the traditional speeches, and why are they remembered and recited today? Malcolm Nea Chun takes up this Maori