Astronomy proved as useful to the Polynesian culture as it did any other, with stars useful as navigational beacons as they shined at night. Astute navigators would gain an understanding of how ...

The answer lies in the deeply-rooted traditions of Polynesian culture. The people of the Pacific are intimately tied to the ocean. They sailed the sea hundreds of years before Europeans ...

Only after many years of learning how to voyage long distances, and to survive on the high islands and atolls they found in the sea, did the ocean-oriented Polynesian culture take on its classic form.

"Sharing Aloha" is an emotional, surprising film full of the magic that working at the Polynesian Cultural Center adds to the lives of the BYU-Hawaii students it helps obtain an education they ...

(Source: Bob Linsdell via Wikimedia Commons) LOS ANGELES (CN) — The jury tasked with deciding whether Walt Disney's 2016 blockbuster movie "Moana" infringed the work of an animator who created a story ...