I'm a critical thinker. Something not taught in today's classrooms. I don't believe anything that someone for the AP writes when right in front of my face is a picture that says something different.
And, most importantly, no where in this article does it mention Ben Finney, a Caucasian man that started the whole effort with his Masters Thesis at UH, then a UH Anthropologist,  found Mau in Micronesia, and formed the Polynesian Sailing Society that organized and funded the first voyage!
It seems that there is a trend to always write any white person's involvement out of history here, especially when it is a good thing.