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Native Hawaiians
Sign in to saveAlso known as Hawaiian people, Hawaiians, Native Hawaiʻians, Kānaka Maoli, Kānaka ʻŌiwi, ʻŌiwi, Owyhees, Kanaka Maoli
ethnic group of Polynesian origin
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Within Vinony's link graph, Native Hawaiians is referenced by 17,786 other articles, and connects out to Hawaii, Guam and Niue.
It sits within the topics Ethnic groups in the United States, Indigenous peoples in the United States and Indigenous peoples of Polynesia.
Its subject is documented across 39 Wikipedia language editions.
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- United states
- 640,442
- Canada
- 3,300
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnolinguistic group
- Named after
- Hawaii
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Hawaiian Schoolchildren by Henry Wetherbee Henshaw modified.jpg
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- Commons category
- Native Hawaiians
- topic's main category
- Category:Native Hawaiian people
- indigenous to
- Hawaii
- ancestral home
- Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Hawaiʻi was settled at least 800 years ago by Polynesians who sailed from the Society Islands. The settlers gradually became detached from their homeland and developed a distinct Hawai'ian culture and identity in their new home. They created new religious and cultural structures, in response to their new circumstances and to pass knowledge from one generation to the next. Hence, the Hawaiian religion focuses on ways to live and relate to the land and instills a sense of community. Though a unique civilization, they have retained synergy with other Polynesian peoples across the Pacific. The Hawaiian language, for example, shares many similarities with other Polynesian languages.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Native Hawaiians” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.