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Loimata, The Sweetest Tears

Season 11 Episode 1103 | 56m 45s

Featuring the redemptive tale of waka builder and captain Lilo Ema Siope’s final years, "Loimata, The Sweetest Tears" is a chronicle of journeys – journeys of migration, spirituality, voyaging, healing and coming home. Confronting intergenerational trauma head on, the Siope family returns to their homeland of Sâmoa.

Aired: 04/30/22 | Expires: 04/30/26
Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts. Distributed nationally by American Public Television
Extras
Indigenous women around the Pacific seek support in their birth choices.
Ioana Turia, competitive paddler and free diver, shares her birth journey in Rarotonga.
Rava Ray, Tahitian photographer and artist, sought an ocean birth for her first child.
Kimi Werner, Native Hawaiian free diver and spearfisher, shares her first birth journey.
Native Hawaiian mother-daughter activists stand to protect their sacred Mauna Kea.
Two sisters, Kapulei Flores and Hāwane Rios, share a responsibility to protect Mauna Kea.
Thousands of Native Hawaiians and protectors of Mauna Kea gather in protest.
New theater production by Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakāne reclaims and celebrates māhū people.
What does it mean to be māhū? Kumu Patrick Makuakāne shares why it's the name of his show.
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