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King Kamehameha II. The history of Kānaka Maoli, like the history of Hawaii, is commonly broken into four major periods: . the pre-unification period (before c. 1800); the unified monarchy and republic period (c. 1800 to 1898)
The history of Hawaii is the story of human settlements in the Hawaiian Islands beginning with their discovery and settlement by Polynesian people between 940 and 1200 AD. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first recorded and sustained contact with Europeans occurred by chance when British explorer James Cook sighted the islands in January 1778 during his third ...
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]
Ancient Hawaiʻi is the period of Hawaiian history preceding the establishment in 1795 of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi by Kamehameha the Great. Traditionally, researchers estimated the first settlement of the Hawaiian islands as having occurred sporadically between 400 and 1100 CE by Polynesian long-distance navigators from the Samoan , Marquesas ...
The power of the steel-tipped pen: reconstructing native Hawaiian intellectual history. Foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Durham ; London: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-7313-1. Sumida, Stephen H. (2014). And the view from the shore: literary traditions of Hawaiʻi. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-99290-7.
Haleakalā is steeped in Native Hawaiian history and culture. “Native Hawaiians have lived on and mālama (cared for) the land for over 1,000 years,” according to the park, which notes that ...
In life, Abigail Kawānanakoa embodied the complexities of Hawaii: Many considered her a princess — a descendant of the royal family that once ruled the islands. Many have been watching where ...
Section 101, "Purpose", of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act explains the aims of the Hawaiian Homelands program as follows: (a) ... to enable native Hawaiians to return to their lands in order to fully support self-sufficiency for native Hawaiians and the self-determination of native Hawaiians in the administration of this Act, and the preservation of the values, traditions, and culture of ...