Kava is a drink made from the dried roots of a Pacific island shrub pounded into a gritty powder. Evidence suggests it first appeared in Vanuatu some 3,000 years ago, and today is used both ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes hosted the state's diverse Polynesian communities in a kava ceremony in the middle of the Capitol rotunda. The Friday afternoon event was meant to ...

Pasifika cultural leaders in New Zealand have performed the ancient Tu’i Tonga kava ceremony to honour tangata whenua. Read this story in te reo Māori and English here. / Pānuitia tēnei i te reo Māori ...

The first time I had kava, I was sitting behind a pizza booth at a music festival with a group of (very kind) strangers. Polynesians have ceremonially consumed the root juice for 3,000 years for its ...

Drinking kava is a social pastime, although it also serves a role in traditional customs related to tribal society. Having made several trips to Fiji, I have always enjoyed experiencing kava drinking ...

Locals also planned to raise the issue of climate change with the monarch, who is on his first visit to Samoa as king King Charles III has taken part in a traditional kava-drinking ceremony before a ...

Description: Executive producer Eric B. Shumway; director of photography Eric Young; narration, Kelela Finau Talakai Lombard; Tongan nose flute, Semisi Fakatava; writer, Eric B. Shumway, Glenn ...