Kaka'olelo: Traditions of Oratory and Speech Making Hawaiian Monarchy The goddess Pele makes an

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Kaka'olelo: Traditions of Oratory and Speech Making Hawaiian Monarchy The goddess Pele makes anIn 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