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Many businesses in Hawaii offer a "Kamaʻāina rate", an often sizable discount given to local residents. These rates are offered primarily at restaurants, hotels, and tourist attractions. [ 3 ] Merchants generally offer these " Kamaʻāina discounts" to anyone with a local ID, such as a Hawaii driver's license or local military ID.
Within the U.S. in 2010, 540,013 residents reported Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander ancestry alone, of which 135,422 lived in Hawaii. [1] In the United States overall, 1.2 million people identified as Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, either alone or in combination with one or more other races. [1]
The Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) community is the fastest-growing racial group in the country. [1] The AAPI community grew 46 percent from 2000 to 2010 and will more than double to over 47 million by 2060. [2]
Despite opposition from many native Hawaiians, Hawaii was annexed by the United States in 1898. Though Dole had sent a delegation to Washington D.C. four years earlier seeking annexation, a ...
In 2011, a governor appointed committee began to gather and verify names of Native Hawaiians for the purpose of voting on a Native Hawaiian nation. [12] In June 2014, the US Department of the Interior announced plans to hold hearings to establish the possibility of federal recognition of Native Hawaiians as an Indian tribe. [13] [14]
The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009 S1011/HR2314 was a bill before the 111th Congress.It is commonly known as the Akaka Bill after Senator Daniel Akaka of Hawaii, who proposed various forms of this bill after 2000.
Beginning in 1978, Hawaii held statewide elections for the trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), an agency charged with disbursing particular funds and benefits to those who may be classified as "Native Hawaiians" ("any descendant of not less than one-half part of the races inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands previous to 1778"), or those who may be classified simply as "Hawaiian" ("any ...
Since the 1830s, another group of Native Hawaiians arrived on California's shores, [5] [4] where they were traders and formed communities. So, they made up 10% of the population of Yerba Buena, now San Francisco, in 1847. During the California gold rush, many other Native Hawaiians migrated to California to work as miners. [4]