Haka Performed By Non-New Zealand Sports Teams - Kahuku "Red Raiders"

Kahuku "Red Raiders"

Kahuku High School "Red Raiders" football team may have been the first American sports team to regularly perform a haka. The town of Kahuku is located just north of La'ie,Hawaii, the home of Brigham Young University-Hawaii, which has many international students, including Polynesians from throughout the South Pacific, and both the student body and local community includes many Fijians, Hawaiians, Maoris, Samoans, Tahitians, and Tongans, among other ethnic groups. Today, a new haka is now performed, for and only Kahuku. It is called, "Kaipahua Kura", meaning 'Red Raider' in the Maori language. Written and choreographed by Seamus Fitzgerald, a Special Instructor at the Brigham Young University-Hawaii Campus and a Manager/Cultural Specialist in the Aotearoa or New Zealand section of the Polynesian Cultural Center in La'ie,Hawaii.