Sentences with phrase «journeying in canoes»
Māori were the first to arrive in New Zealand, journeying in canoes from Hawaiki about 1,000 years ago.
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People who could successfully store lots of energy in their adipose tissue were more likely to survive a famine or a long journey in a canoe to settle a new island or continent.
He has also competed in the MR340, a 340 mile paddle boat race on the Missouri River from Kansas City to St. Charles, completing this race 3 times: two tandem journeys in a canoe and one solo journey in a kayak.
Can you imagine making that same journey in a canoe?
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We are gearing up for 8 days in Southern California and then our annual canoe journey.
I journeyed through its remotest jungles in a dugout canoe, or followed a native guide, hacking my way through the dim, tangled rainforest.
When writing the Brooke Kinley series, A.S. Bond draws on her own travel experiences, including leading an award - winning canoe expedition in Labrador, later the subject of «Lost Lands, Forgotten Stories; A Woman's Journey to the Heart of Labrador», published by HarperCollins in North America and Eye Books in the UK (written under the name Alexandra Pratt).
He then charmed his way up the mighty Whanganui River immersing himself in Māori culture and paddling his heart out with the crew of a traditional waka (canoe) called «The Queen» with 11 other paddlers — a journey that made for a spectacular arrival in the riverside city.
The Fiji Museum in Suva, Viti Levu, takes you on a journey through the nation's history and cultural development, featuring centuries - old clothing, traditional canoes and harrowing stories of British explorers coming face to face with cannibalism.
Luhui is Co-founder of the Chumash Maritime Association in Santa Barbara in 1997 and participated in the building of the first Chumash community owned tomol (traditional canoe) which made its journey across the Santa Barbara Channel from the mainland to Limuw (Santa Cruz Island), September 9, 2001 — the first time in over 150 years.
Accompanying the paintings and sculptures in the exhibition is an ongoing screening of The Displaced, an 11 minute film documenting a performance by Attukwei and his performance collective, GoLokal, in which Attukwei embarks on a symbolic journey in remembrance of his ancestral migration from Bukom to Labadi aboard a canoe in the ocean.
Outside of law, Estella has led outdoor groups with Hooksum Outdoor School, participated in several canoe tribal journeys, participates in a Hesquiaht language group, and practices cedar weaving, all of which helps keep her culturally grounded and connected to the lands and waters that sustain us all.
He set off on a four - month journey to Victoria, traveling by mail steamer and, for part of the route, by canoe to arrive in the colony in early summer 1851.