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A Kamaʻāina by Grace Hudson. Kamaʻāina (Hawaiian: kamaʻāina, lit. 'child or person of the land' [1]) is a word describing Hawaii residents regardless of their racial background who were born in Hawaii, as opposed to kanaka which means a person of Native Hawaiian ancestry.
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.
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 ...
Zach Lee, a dentist from Aiea, won the kamaaina men's award with a personal record 2 :48. He said the heat didn't bother him. "I think the wind was more noticeable than the heat, " he said.
May 26—Organizers of the Honolulu Marathon say they expect to hold the 26.2-mile event in person this year following last year's cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 Honolulu ...
Aloha ʻāina has been a practice of Kanaka Maoli survivance that helped to develop the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. It is also part of the Hawaiian consciousness that is a symbol of cultural identity that helps to unite Hawaiians. [ 16 ]
Kanaka workers on a sugar cane plantation in Queensland, late 19th century. Loyalty Islanders employed as sailors on the New Caledonian coast. Kanakas were workers (a mix of voluntary and involuntary) from various Pacific Islands employed in British colonies, such as British Columbia (Canada), Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, and Queensland (Australia) in the 19th and early ...
The word Kanak (originally spelled Canaque in French) is derived from kanaka maoli, a Hawaiian phrase meaning 'ordinary person' which was at one time applied indiscriminately by European colonisers, traders and missionaries in Oceania to any non-European Pacific islander. [8]