New OceanStates blogpost!

As indigenous communities to our Moana, our deep knowledge of the ocean has come from hundreds of years of interacting with and observing our environment. Our knowledge about the ocean and environment is ancestral knowledge, passed down from generation to generation through our tupuna (ancestors). But how often do outsiders, and even Ma’ohi populations, hear and know about our deep, ancestral and everyday relationships with the ocean from our own perspectives?

In the latest OceanStates blogpost, Vehia Wheeler introduces the Ma'ohi Nui project, a collaboration with the Island Lives, Ocean States project aiming to uplift voices, knowledge and perspectives on the ocean among indigenous populations in Mā‘ohi Nui (French Polynesia). Read more of Vehia's post on the OceanStates Blog.