Staples's work is emotional without being sentimental

and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators

specifically

From rapping about land and water rights from Flint to Standing Rock

As he so eloquently yet simply expresses

Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle'a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance horses Staples's work is emotional withoutAttuned to a world of natural signsthe stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swellsPolynesian explorers navigated for thousands of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against prevailing winds and currents aboard powerful double canoes to settle the vast Pacific Ocean. And they did this when Greek mariners still hugged the coast of an inland sea, and Europe was populated by stone age farmers. Yet by the turn of the twentieth century, this