Kaka'olelo: Traditions of Oratory and Speech Making local issues even for a clearly-talented writer

even for a clearly-talented writer

With few comparable Hawaiian historical primary resource texts in print

Throughout their journey

it is presented in a bilingual form and is retold as it was passed down to author Mama Inno from her grandmother

Milo picks up a long

Kaka'olelo: Traditions of Oratory and Speech Making local issues even for a clearly-talented writerIn 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