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  2. Category:Female models from Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Female models from Hawaii" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Judi Andersen; B.

  3. A Look at the Legacy of Nake'u Awai, the Godfather of ... - AOL

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    At 85, Native Hawaiian fashion designer Nake‘u Awai still insists on the reason he got into the business: “My intention was to design clothes for local people.” ... “All of the models were ...

  4. Women in Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    Women in Hawai'i reside in the Hawaiian Island and are citizens of the United States. [1] Immigrants and Native Hawaiians make up the population of women in Hawai'i. Native Hawaiian women descended from Polynesians. [2] Immigrants women came from many countries that created a cultural exchange in the island. [2]

  5. Grass skirt - Wikipedia

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    Grass skirts were introduced to Hawaii by immigrants from the Gilbert Islands around the 1870s to 1880s [3] although their origins are attributed to Samoa as well. [4] [5] According to DeSoto Brown, a historian at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, it is likely Hawaiian dancers began wearing them during their performances on the vaudeville circuit of the United States mainland.

  6. List of Native Hawaiians - Wikipedia

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    Kelly Hu (born 1968), actress, former fashion model and beauty pageant queen; Maren Jensen (born 1956), former model and actress; known for starring in the 1970s television series Battlestar Galactica; Herb Kawainui Kāne (1928-2011), artist, historian, author, architect, and a principal figure in the Hawaiian Renaissance; Kaliko Kauahi ...

  7. Native Hawaiians - Wikipedia

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    In the 2010 U.S. census, people with Native Hawaiian ancestry were reported to be residents in all 50 of the U.S. states, as well as Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. [1] 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]

  8. Culture of the Native Hawaiians - Wikipedia

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    By 1900 the native population had dropped below 100,000. [18] The Native Hawaiian population was reduced to 20% of the total due to disease, inter-marriage and migration. [19] The diseases spread from outside Hawaii such as smallpox, cholera, influenza, and gonorrhea. Unlike Europeans, Hawaiians had no history with these diseases and their ...

  9. Native Hawaiian women and girls experience sex trafficking ...

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    Native Hawaiian women and girls experience disproportionate levels of violence, inequities that have long been insufficiently addressed, new research shows. In particular, sexual exploitation ...