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The earliest Chinese arrived in the Hawaiian Islands in 1778, the same year as English explorer James Cook. [1] Today, some Chinese born on the islands can claim to be seventh generation. Although the Chinese are only the fifth most populous ethnic group in Hawaii, it is estimated that a third of Hawaii's entire population has some Chinese ...
Within two years of the first arrival of Korean immigrants, the number of Koreans who had migrated to Hawaii had grown to more than 7,000. [3] Between 1901 and 1905, 7,226 immigrants, including 6,048 men, 637 women, and 541 children, came on 65 trips to Hawaii.
In Hawaii the day is called "Malasada Day" and it dates back to the time of the 19th-century sugarcane plantations. [13] Another popular Portuguese tradition in Hawaii is the Holy Spirit Festival (Festa do Espírito Santo), which, since 1901, is celebrated each May with a parade and feast.
Colonial epidemic disease in Hawaii has greatly threatened the Native Hawaiian population since its introduction to the islands over a hundred years ago. Beginning with the first colonizers led by Captain James Cook that arrived in the islands in 1778, [1] all the way up until today, foreign disease has been present in Native Hawaiians.
Though many Americans think of a vacation in a tropical paradise when imagining Hawaii, ... to early 19th Century — the arrival of James ... rights to Native Hawaiians and foreigners.
Puerto Rican migration to Hawaii began when Puerto Rico's sugar industry was devastated by two hurricanes in 1899. The devastation caused a worldwide shortage in sugar and a huge demand for the product from Hawaii. Consequently, Hawaiian sugarcane plantation owners began to recruit the jobless, but experienced, laborers from Puerto Rico. In ...
Hawaiian historians, such as Reginald Yzendoorn and Richard W. Rogers, defended the possibility of the first European discovery of the Hawaiian Islands by Spain, especially by the Spanish sailor Juan Gaetano, since several 16th-century documents and maps detailed islands in the same geographical position that received the name: "La Mesa" in the case of Hawaii, "La Desgraciada" to refer to Maui ...
Once in Hawaii, it was easy for the Japanese to continue on to Japanese settlements on the west coast if they so desired. In the decade of 1901 to 1910, 129,000 Japanese immigrated to the continental United States or Hawaii; nearly all were males and on five-year work contracts and 117,000 more came in the decades from 1911 to 1930.