America Unearthed: Ancient Tiny People of Hawaii (S2, E6) | Full Episode

Thank You for respecting our Culture and our Land!! Aloha

Scott cares enough to bring to the light, those who lived from the past. So respectful!

I am konkow Maidu, California Native. We have stories from our tribe that speak of of the little people. While growing up & going to the Bear Dance close to Susanville, CA. Many Paiutes would also tell stories of them. In 1999 while I moved to Elko, NV. I heard stories from Shoshone natives telling stories from the little people as well. The Celtic also had stories of little people.

Glad he actually asked some kanaka

Iama go get a drink honey, never comes back 😂😂

Bro wrote this off as a “business trip”.😂

I know the Menehunes exist. I know,...I swear it. Also I know the Night Marchers exist. I used to live on Molokai and had events with them. No,I didnt talk to them,but I did see the Night Marchers on the beach in Halawa Valley. Carrying torches in the night to one end of the beach,as if gathering for something or someone. And both these encounters were before I even knew about them.

When I lived in the Alaskan Bush among the Yupik Eskimo , I heard about the Tundra People. Small people that can shape shift and were tricksters. I saw little barefoot tracks on a sandbar in October when I was moose hunting.

The Hawaiian word, Menehune, comes from the Tahitian word, manahune, which means slave or low class person. It doesn't mean the people were small in physical stature as we tend to think of Ireland's mythical leprechauns, but of small social value as would be common in a caste system. Slaves in the U.S. in the 1700s weren't small physically, but the Tahitians would still have considered them manahune. On the island of Kaua'i was an elevated stone aqueduct that ran for over a mile to bring water from the river to a location where taro was grown. George Vancouver walked on it and described it in one of his journals. It was torn down by white settlers and the large carefully crafted rocks were used in the foundation and walls of a Christian church that still exists. There is a location on Kaua'i that has something called the Menehune Ditch, and is all that remains of the original aqueduct. Hawaiians and Polynesians in general weren't stone masons, nor did they ever construct elevated aqueducts. They stacked rocks, but didn't work and shape rocks for use in a structure. The method of shaping and fitting of interlocking stone was used in Peru and Chile, and spectacular examples can be found in the ancient city of Quito. Something that might pique your interest is that the same method of shaping and interlocking rocks on a massive scale was used on an island in the Pacific that became known as Rapa Nui. You may know it as Easter Island.

So Glad I grew up as a Kama'aina in Hawai'i. So much culture, heritage and Family

There are many different human species. Different species, different evolution growth.

FYI ..Menehune are actually the short statured Micronesian people that were here before the Polynesians.

I didnt find a thing, but I got a great vacation from it.....thanks......

Love how these things start. Like a very good scary movie

So Dad said he'd take us to Hawaii if we helped him do a show. Sheesh!

The whole intro was so cringe... I just couldn't get through it. 7 minutes of my life I won't be getting back....

Hawaii here, haven't heard of Menehunes in forever!

The people who inhabited the island PRIOR to the Tahitians might have been 5 feet tall and the Tahitians that came over were over 7 feet tall. Doesn't it make sense that the Tahitian conquerors would think of, and refer to the original inhabitants, as "the little people" even if they weren't so "little" after all?

Kamehameha was the ancestor to the last monarch of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani

If it were a status thing how could they choose when begin work....and if you watch us we not only quit but abandon the whole project