
In Football We Trust: The Kava Tradition
Clip: Season 17 Episode 8 | 1m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
In Football We Trust premieres on PBS’s Independent Lens on Monday, January 25, 2016.
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary In Football We Trust, high school football players, both Polynesian and non, gather together to make and drink Kava root juice — which has a calming effect but isn't illegal — and play the ukulele. Fihi explains, "Kava is our way of holding onto our tradition but at the same time inviting the new."
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In Football We Trust: The Kava Tradition
Clip: Season 17 Episode 8 | 1m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary In Football We Trust, high school football players, both Polynesian and non, gather together to make and drink Kava root juice — which has a calming effect but isn't illegal — and play the ukulele. Fihi explains, "Kava is our way of holding onto our tradition but at the same time inviting the new."
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