The Ruthless Koa Warriors Who Guarded Ancient Hawaii's Monarchy | Ancient Black Ops | Timeline

Kamehameha didn't stand out because of his "darting eyes" he stood out because he was over 7 foot tall and massively strong. The Naha stone resides today in front of Hilo library. Don't think you're moving it either - it is huge!

This documentary is outdated in regards to its understanding and portrayal of the "koa" warriors. First off, the word "koa" by itself can mean brave, not just warrior. In fact, the word "pūʻali" was used more to describe the soldiery, whereas "koa" was just a way to describe anyone brave, hence "pūʻali koa" (brave soldiers) and "pūkaua koa" (brave war leader). The truth is we don't know how the tree got its name, but the word "koa" is a cognate for "toa", which exists in other Polynesian languages like Samoan and Maori. The word "pūʻali" means to gird, as a loincloth. The "malo" which is the Hawaiian loincloth, was girded before combat and battle, hence the term "pūʻali" to describe its soldiers. In modern days, the term "pūʻali" is used for any kind of soldiery, such as "pūʻali koa" for "Army" as opposed to "pūʻali lewa" for "Air Force." This is an okay attempt at trying to convey the Hawaiian story to a foreign audience, but it misses the mark on accuracy.

Shark tooth paddle ripping through your turkey purse seems like a pretty nasty way to go.

This is my first time seeing an account that fully explained the context of this incident based on psychological and cultural motivations. It feels so much more real and humanizing to explain it based on the koa warriors' mentality rather than the usual patronizing take of polynesian natives not having any sense of object value or personal property.

Nice to review the earliest days of Captain Cooks’ arrival and subsequent death on the big island, Hawaii. The Polynesian people along the western Pacific Rims’ islands, all the way down to New Zealand and the Pacific South Sea Islands, for millennia were the largest population of citizens in these areas. Polynesians! They are truly a remarkable people built extremely large and strong, so of course they would have a great warrior class, but they also had their “incredible seafaring skills”that allowed them to travel thousands of miles to islands like the Hawaiian Islands. A beautiful, proud, artistic, premier fishing people. I enjoyed this documentary very much. It shows how the British could be and often were overly pompous, dependent on their technology, and military skills. Also, a proud group of great seafaring people that definitely had one of the greatest Navy’s’ through out Middle Ages until the 20century where many of the First World Nations were creating high functioning Navy’s as well. 👍🥰

The warriors fighting each other shows how they resolve their issues. Only handmade weapons and no long range killings

It absolutely baffles me that people think of hawaii people as push overs and say they don’t face struggles, just because they live on a island paradise, that same island paradise bred one of the most ruthless warriors, and has had over 1,000’s and 1,000’s of bloody battles, I literally seen people in comments say hawaii has no ghettos, like dude lmfao

Why not one Hawaiian elder interviewed or gave correct history of Hawaii

It was a thrilled watching documentary about Koa warriors..in Hawaii islands...thank you 🙏(Timeline) channel for sharing

Now the locals can’t afford to live there

Don’t look like King Kamehameha people to me. Presentation is just as important as the information.

Thanks for posting. We have vacationed to the Big Island and appreciate that it seems less crowded and commercial than the other islands. A lot of the scenes look like they are from a place we visited & snorkled. The one with the wooden carvings looks like 'Two Step'. We went night manta ray observing in the bay.

Hawaiians were tough tough people the way they are today.

Many of the hand to hand combat techniques in this video are VERY reminiscent of Marine Corps line training in the mid nineties at least.

Ancestors of Max Holloway! The best is blessed!!

I so enjoyed that. Ive aways loved Hawall & their traditions. ❤

Also misses the fact that the ball bounced off of hala armor when the musket misfired.

Except Kamehameha was about 10 shades darker than the person portraying him and the modern “Hawaiians”.

So glad this showed up in my feed.

do note. Paiea actually flipped the Naha stone completely.