NATIVE HAWAIIANS

NATIVE HAWAIIANS CALL THEMSELVES MAOLI. THEY TRACE BACK THEIR ANCESTRY BACK TO THE POLYNESIAN SETTLERS OF HAWAII. THEIR HISTORY IN GENERAL IS TRACED BACK INTO FOUR MAJOR PERIODS - ANCIENT HAWAII, MONARDS, TERRITORIAL, AND STATEHOOD.



THEIR STILL IS NO CONSESUS ABOUT THE EARLY PERIOD. SOME THINK POLYNESIANS ARRIVED HER IN THE THIRD CENTURY FROM MARQUESUS AND FOLLOWED BY THE TAHITIAN SETTLERS IN 1300 A.D. WHO CONQUERED THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS. SOME BELIEVE THERE WAS A SINGLE PERIOD OF SETTLEMENT. ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE THE FIRST HAWAIIANS WERE HERE NO LATER THAN 800 A.D. AND POSSIBLY AS EARLY AS 500 A.D. THERE WAS CONTINUED CONTACT BETWEEN ALL HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AND THEY HAVE ABUNDANT ORAL TRADITIONS.



LONG DISTANCE VOYAGING BETWEEN BECAME LESS FREQUENT, AFTER ABOUT AD 1200. AND IT WAS NOT IN HAWAIIAN ORAL TRADITIONS BY THE TIME OF EUROPEAN CONTACT. KING KAKAUA WROTE A BOOK CLAIMING THAT PA'AO WAS FROM WHO BROUGHT THE CHIEF OF SAMOA TO RULE THE ISLAND OF HAWAII. HIS DESCENDANTS WERE ONE OF HIGHEST RANKED RANKED DESCENDANTS WERE ONE OF HIGHEST RANKED DESCENDANTS WERE ONE OF THE HIGHEST RANKED FAMILIES. IN SAMAO -KING KAMEHAMEHA WAS A DESCENDANT OF PILI.



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