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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 ...
Large subcategories of Polynesian Americans include Native Hawaiians and Samoan Americans. In addition there are smaller communities of Tongan Americans, French Polynesian Americans, and Māori Americans. There is a notable Native Hawaiian presence in Las Vegas. The city is sometimes called the "Ninth Island" in reference to the eight islands ...
In 2011, a governor appointed committee began to gather and verify names of Native Hawaiians for the purpose of voting on a Native Hawaiian nation. [12] In June 2014, the US Department of the Interior announced plans to hold hearings to establish the possibility of federal recognition of Native Hawaiians as an Indian tribe. [13] [14]
Hawaii: Hawaii resident Islander, [21] Kamaʻāina. The Associated Press Stylebook restricts use of "Hawaiian" to people of Native Hawaiian descent. [22] Hawaiian: Kamaʻāina Idaho: Idahoan Illinois: Illinoisan Illinoisian, Illinoian, Flatlander, [23] Sucker, Sand-hiller, Egyptian [24] Indiana: Hoosier
The first native workers from the Hawaiian Islands (called the "Sandwich Islands" at the time) arrived on the Tonquin in 1811 to clear the site and help build Fort Astoria, as undertaken by the Pacific Fur Company. Nearly 12 Kanakas or a third of the workforce wintered over among "Astorians".
Though many Americans think of a vacation in a tropical paradise when imagining Hawaii, how the 50th state came to be a part of the U.S. is actually a much darker story, generations in the making.
Nearly 22,000 people of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander descent lived in Clark County in 2021, an increase of 40 percent from 2011. [8] Las Vegas is sometimes called "the Ninth Island" in reference to the eight islands of Hawaii. [7] [8] [9] Casino owner and entrepreneur Sam Boyd is credited for first fostering the Las Vegas–Hawaii ...
The Native Hawaiian population was reduced to 20% of the total due to disease, inter-marriage and migration. [19] The diseases spread from outside Hawaii such as smallpox, cholera, influenza, and gonorrhea. Unlike Europeans, Hawaiians had no history with these diseases and their immune systems were unprepared to fight them. [20]