KANAKA MAOLI ARE HAWAIAN NATIVES

THE KANAKA MAOLI MEANS INDIGENOUS POLYNESIAN PEOPLE OR THEIR DESCENDANTS. THE HISTORY OF NATIVE HAWAIIANS IS CLASSIFIED INTO FOR MAJOR PERIODS:1) ANCIENT HAWAII, 2) KINGDOM OF HAWAII 3) TERRITORY OF HAWAII 4)STATEHOOD.

THE EARLY SETTLEMENT IS STILL UNSETTLED. SOME BELIEVE THE FIRST POLYNESIANS ARRIVED HERE IN THE THIRD CENTURY FROM MARQUESAS AND WERE FOLLOWED BY THE TAHIATIAN SETTLERS IN 1300, WHO CONQUERED THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS. THERE IS ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE THAT CONFIRMING SETTLEMENT NO LATER THAN 800 A.D.

SOME WRITERS BELIEVE THAT THERE WERE OTHER SETTLERS. IN HAWAII, PEOPLE WHO WERE FORCED INTO REMOTE VALLEYS BY NEWER ARRIVALS. THEY CLAIM THAT THE LITTLE PEOPLE WHO BUILT THE HEIAU PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF ANCIENT PEOPLE WHO SETTLED.

BY THE TIME CAPTAIN COOK ARRIVED THERE MAY HAVE BEEN 250,00 TO 800,00 PEOPLE. THERE IS DEBATE OVER SUCH ESTIMATES. THEY WERE WIPED OUT BY DISEASES. THEY HAD NO RESISTANCE TO INFLUENZA OR OTHER DISEASES. BY 1900 ONLY 40,000 PEOPLE EXISTED.

THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE WAS ONCE THE PRIMARY LANGUAGE OF THE HAWAIIAN PEOPLE. TODAY MOST PEOPLE ALL SPEAK ENGLISH SINCE OVER A CENTURY THEY THEY HAVE BEEN PART OF THE U.S. BY 1896 THEY REQUIRED ENGLISH TO BE THE ONLY LANGUAGE IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS. SOME NATIVE HAWAIIANS SPEAK CREOLE. ENGLISH REFERRED TO PIDGIN ENGLISH IN THE 1900'S WHEN A VARIETY OF ETHNIC GROUPS WERE HERE.

SINCE 1978 THE LANGUAGE HAS IMMERSED IN VARIOUS SCHOOLS AGAIN. IN 2002 THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII HAS AN MA PROGRAM IN HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE. IN THE THE ISLAND IN THE ISLAND OF NIIHAU THEY STILL SPEAK HAWAIIAN.

CHILDREN ARE PUBLICALLY EDUCATED . SINCE 1994 AN EDUCATOR HAD SPECIAL PUBLIC HAWIAN LANGUAGE IMMERSION SCHOOLS. THEY ARE NOT ONLY FOR HAWAIAN. THE CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT ABOUT THEIR HISTORY AND ANCESTRY.

NATIVE CULTURE HAS SEEN A REVIVAL IN RECENT YEARS AS DECISIONS ARE MADE. SOME SUBJECTS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ARE: ANCIENT ART; LIFESTYLE, GEOLOGY, HULA AND HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE.

NATIVE AMERICAN PROJECT ARTS IN 1974 GAVE THEMFEDERAL ASSISTANCE FOR NATIVE AMERICAN. IN 1993 CLINTON PASSED A RESOLUTION TO APPOLOGIZE TO NATIVE HAWAII FOR OVERTHROW OF THE KINGDOM OF THE KINGDOM OF HAWAII. SEVERAL CULTURAL PRESERVATION SOCITIES HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED. BISHOP MUSEUM WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1889 AND DESIGNATED HAWAII'S STATE NATURAL AND CULTURAL HISTORICAL MUSEUM. IT HAS THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF ARTIFACTS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL TOOLS.

IT HAS A POLYNESIAN SOCIETY TO REINVENT THE DOUBLE HULLED CANOES. THEIR ANCIENT ART OF HULA DANCING IS EXPRESSED IN MANY PLACES IT TELLS STORIES AND FEELINGS FROM VARIOUS VARIOUS PHASES OF LIFE.

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