As Allie says "a voyaging society founded largely by white men and financed by white philanthropists."  Caucasian anthropologist Ben Finney from California invented the concept of Hokule'a and was the founding first President of the Polynesian Voyaging Society (Finney had no Hawaiian blood and would not be eligible to join the Hawaiian tribe pushed by OHA).  American businessman Charles Bishop donated his own money to found the Bishop Museum, whose German/Chicago-style planetarium was where Nainoa Thompson went to study how the stars and constellations move across the sky (He did not pull up star-maps out of some sort of "racial memory").  Shame on Hawaiian activists for making Hokule'a a racial thing.