The War Drums of a Makua: The Season of Battle

In this episode, we trace the quiet violence of erasure—how names, lands, and ancestral memory are stripped from the record, yet pulse beneath the surface. Ea, the word for “earth” in many Pacific tongues, becomes the symbol of what’s been silenced and what refuses to disappear. Dee Epperson walks us through the layers: colonial cartography, linguistic suppression, and the ritual of remembering. With cadence as resistance and voice...

Episode 2: Defending Ea – Nationalism, Religion, and the Breathline of Ea
In this episode, we trace the ritual of war from Polynesian shores to Russian borders, exposing how nationalism and religion have become weapons of control. From Russia’s 33 invasions since 1917 to the rise of Evangelical nationalism in the U.S., we explore how sacred breathlines—Ea—are violated when power replaces purpose. We reflect on Polynesian warfar...

Ea: Breath of the Ancestors, Pulse of the Earth
In this episode, we explore Ea—the sacred breath, the wind, the unseen current that carries ancestral memory and ecological wisdom. DS guides us through Ea’s role in biocultural medicine, ritual healing, and microbiome regulation, weaving clinical insight with Polynesian lineage.
You’ll hear:
• How Ea functions as both diagnosis and remedy
• The connection between brea...

On Thursday, February 24th, Russia invaded a peaceful , independent  nation leaving untold civilians slaughtered in their wake.  March 15th, 1899, Germany, Britain, New Zealand and the US, invaded Samoa, a peaceful and independent nation who was woefully unprepared to defend its people and it's Parliamentary style of Government.  27,000 to 32,000 Samoan warriors died in 2 months.  Civilian casualties were untold.  I lost my gr...

170 Ancient Forts and Fortresses were destroyed by American and European military in order to make room for their own development...Forts and Fortresses showed a culture and civilization that had engineering and military skills.  Messages sent miles away by towers holding long-range vibrating drums to call the tribes to war against invaders...

The War Drums of a Makua is produced by Savage Music Studios and sponsored by South Pacifi...

The year is 1773...a group of Massachusetts colonists throw a shipment of tea into Boston Harbor...10 years later an independent nation stood victorious over it's oppressors.  American Indians and Indigenous Polynesians have never seen representation under the jurisdiction of it's rulers.  Required to pay taxes and obey laws that they can not have a voice in or a vote...These Polynesians are the Socially Dead.

The War Drum...

Polynesian culture is holistic, synergistic - one aspect will influence all others.  Our language interacts with war, governing, with the keeping of our history, relationships and with our faith and because of that, our Mana, which is the basis of our existance.

The War Drums of a Makua is produced by Savage Music Studios and sponsored by South Pacific Health at www.southpachealth.com and by LifeXtend Unlimited at lifextendunlimited...

There are over 1,800 Ali'i chief titles in Samoa alone, some that have been passed down through generations and they are not allowed to come to the US and keep those designations,  something that Hawaii and American Samoa have fought over for decades!  This is part of our culture, our heritage, our Mana...our religion.  The US finds the same issues with Native American Indian Tribes on reservations....

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My birth was written up in JAMA in 1960.  They say I was a Miracle.  My Grandmother,  a Pule saw my birth as a sign.  She told me I was sent from her father, Opapo, the great healer, to save our people.  I started my training when I was a toddler and have been fighting ever since...

The War Drums of a Makua is produced by Savage Music Studios and sponsored by South Pacific Health at www.southpachealth.com and by LifeXtend Unlimited ...