From the http://www.VideoSource.com Global Village Travel Guide and DVD, "Islands of the South Pacific". Stock footage available from http://videoso More

From the http://www.VideoSource.com Global Village Travel Guide and DVD, "Islands of the South Pacific". Stock footage available from http://videosource.com/search.html Transcript: The influence of the missionaries nearly destroyed the beautiful traditions of music and dance in the islands, but this has begun to change, and a strong effort to recover and reconstruct these aesthetic and uplifting cultural elements is well under way..... The cultural development of Tonga and nearby Samoa took place during the same migration period, and their histories are interwoven. In fact, a Tongan creation myth tells of the God hero Maui who pulled Tonga out of the sea with a big fish hook he got from the Samoans. Less

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