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Native Hawaiians (also known as Indigenous Hawaiians, Kānaka Maoli, Aboriginal Hawaiians, or simply Hawaiians; Hawaiian: kānaka, kānaka ʻōiwi, Kānaka Maoli, and Hawaiʻi maoli) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands . Hawaii was settled at least 800 years ago by Polynesians who sailed from the Society Islands.
The origins of the word predate the 1778 arrival of Captain James Cook, as recorded in several chants stemming from that time. [4] [5] The term was generally given to people of European descent; however, as more distinct terms began to be applied to individual European cultures and other non-European nations, the word haole began to refer mostly to Americans, including American Blacks (who ...
An often overlooked aspect of this increased Asian immigration to Hawaii as cheap plantation laborers is the social, economic, and political effect of the shifting demographic on Native Hawaiians. Settler colonialism in Hawaii is a unique case compared to others historically because of the Asian ancestry (Polynesian) of the indigenous Hawaiians.
The very first large group of Korean immigrants arrived in the United States was in the year 1903 on January 13. The Korean Empire had issued its first English-language passports to these immigrants the previous year. [2] They travelled on the RMS Gaelic and landed in Hawaii. The passengers were a diverse group with various ages and backgrounds.
In Joseph Han's hilarious first novel, 'Nuclear Family,' the Cho family's lunch chain is under threat after a supernatural incident at the Korean DMZ.
Korean: Koreanic — 82 million <1 million 81 million Iranian Persian (excl. other Persian dialects) Indo-European: Iranian: 62 million 17 million 78 million Javanese: Austronesian: Malayo-Polynesian — — 68 million Italian: Indo-European: Romance: 64 million 3 million 67 million Gujarati: Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: 58 million 5 million 63 ...
The traditional Hawaiian religion is a polytheistic animistic religion. Its beliefs encompass the presence of spirits in objects such as the waves and the sky. The Hawaiian religion believes in four gods; Kāne, Kanaloa, Kū, and Lono. Kāne is the God of creation, Kanaloa is the God of the ocean, Ku is the God of war and male pursuits, and ...
Marcus Coloma (born 1978), television and film actor. Sasha Colby (born 1985), drag queen, beauty pageant winner, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Auliʻi Cravalho, actress and singer [ 1 ] Frank De Lima (born 1949), comedian and Catholic deacon. William De Los Santos (born 1965), author, poet, screenwriter, film director and film producer.