Kea Rutherford President Fiery Canoe Foundation Kea Rutherford is Columbia University Freshman from Scarsdale, New York. Her mother's side of the family is from Tabiang and Tabwewa on Rabi and Banaba. She is currently a high school senior at Edgemont Junior Senior High School. Her efforts to aid the Banaban community began in the summer of 2021 when she created a fundly page to aid the Banabans in Fiji during COVID-19. From there, she was inspired to create a project to aid Banabans everywhere i

"Vikings of the Sunrise" In 1976, this voyaging canoe, Taratai, named after the village where it was constructed in the nation of Kiribati, sailed 1,500 miles (2,400 km) across the Pacific from Kiribati to Fiji. It sailed to prove in pre-European times, islanders had the technology and the seafaring ability to purposefully navigate the seas. (For all intents and purposes, we had been sailing with intention for thousands of years before Europeans believed the Earth was round.) This film fills us