Hawaiians

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
הוואים
Name (Latin)
Hawaiians
Name (Arabic)
الهاوائيون الأصليون
Other forms of name
Indigenous peoples Hawaii
Indigenous peoples United States
Kānaka Maoli
Kānaka ʻŌiwi
Native Hawaiians
ʻŌiwi
Owyhees
See Also From tracing topical name
Ethnology Hawaii
Polynesians
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q1283606
Library of congress: sh 85059379
Sources of Information
  • Washington Post, Aug. 24, 2000:p. A12 ("Acknowledging 'less than honorable' actions by the United States against Native Hawaiians more than a century ago, the federal government recommended yesterday that indigenous islanders be given the same sovereign status as most American Indians")
  • Silva, N.K. Aloha betrayed, 2004:p. 12 (kanaka, "person"; maoli "real, true, original, indigenous"; Kanaka by itself also means "Hawaiian"; Kanaka denotes the singular or the category, kānaka is plural; Kanaka Maoli was used officially as early as 1852) p. 13 (ʻŌiwi is interchangeable with Kanaka and Kanaka Maoli)
  • Wikipedia, Oct. 27, 2007(Native Hawaiians, in Hawaiian, kānaka; ʻŌiwi or Kānaka Maoli)
  • Northwest Hawaiʻi times, Aug. 2007(kamaʻaina profile (Owyhee; written name that Captain James Cook used for the natives of the Sandwich Islands and it is the name that was used for the Hawaiian fur trappers))