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"Hawaiki Rising" by Sam Low is also an excellent read.

Important to note that the initial voyage of the Hōkūleʻa in 1976 was specifically done to disprove the whole Kon-Tiki expedition.

I did my MS thesis around this exact topic, a VR simulation of Native Hawaiian Wayfinding: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/pres_a_0030...

It should be available for download sometime this year, currently working on the HTC Vive, being ported to the Oculus platform.

Also actively participating with the Polynesian Voyaging Society here in Honolulu to prep for participation in a Tahiti sail later this year.

Indeed; various communities around the Pacific are working on continuing this tradition.