Thus was born “Moana,” named after the young male tribal it followed into manhood. More than 50 years later, Monica, his youngest daughter, went back to the same island and recorded sound for ...

Moana can do it all. She both dances gracefully in a traditional dance with her people and climbs to the top eaves of their hut to fix a leak. She also scales a terrifying rock face with Maui ...

To wit: Moana may be the daughter of a tribal chief on the South Pacific island of Matunui, and thus could be considered royalty be virtue of her parentage. But she is primarily a wayfinder ...

The film, out next Wednesday, tells the story of Moana (Auli'i Cravalho), the daughter of a Polynesian tribal chieftan, who meets a demigod called Maui (Dwayne Johnson). Dwayne Johnson's ...

Some players seemed pretty stressed at tribal. Turns out, he didn’t need it — the (first) vote was a tie, with four votes on Jacqui and four on Moana. That came minutes after Moana had ...

and a once-all-powerful tribal god (Dwayne Johnson) in search of a mystical island. Tony Award nominee Phillipa Soo lends her voice as Motunui, a villager from Moana's native island (via ...