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After the war the ranch was returned to the Morgan family, the owners who were descendants of Dr. Judd. [3] The entire ahupuaʻa (traditional land division of ancient Hawaii) was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Oahu as the Kualoa Ahupuaʻa Historical District, site 74000718 on October 16, 1974. [4] [5]
The Alien Land Ownership Act of 1850 allowed foreigners to hold title to Hawaiian land. [7] Many Native Hawaiians were disenfranchised by legislation that made property ownership a qualification for voting, [8] [9] and most of the property owners were either Hawaiian nobility/gentry or non-Hawaiian sugar plantation owners. [10]
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]
“People love Hawaii, but they just don’t know Hawaii,” Evan Mokuahi Hayes, a Native Hawaiian who owns Hoomau Oahu Tours, which seeks to give visitors deeper and more history-driven tours of ...
Māʻili has among the highest percentage of Native Hawaiians in Hawai’i, with 48.8% of the population in 2009. [11] Māʻili and its waterfront park, Māʻili Beach Park, is a popular destination for surfing, snorkeling, swimming, boogieboarding, and bodyboarding. [8]
An often overlooked aspect of this increased Asian immigration to Hawaii as cheap plantation laborers is the social, economic, and political effect of the shifting demographic on Native Hawaiians. Settler colonialism in Hawaii is a unique case compared to others historically because of the Asian ancestry (Polynesian) of the indigenous Hawaiians.
In the 2020 US census, Clark County, Nevada (which includes the city of Las Vegas) was the US county home to the most Native Hawaiians outside of Hawaii. [7] Nearly 22,000 people of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander descent lived in Clark County in 2021, an increase of 40 percent from 2011. [8]
The estimated population of Native Hawaiians when Cook arrived was 800,000. With the arrival of whaling ships and missionaries in the early 19th century, the Native Hawaiians were exposed to diseases for which they had no immunity and began dying in large numbers. The official 1878 census showed only 44,088 individuals who claimed Hawaiian ...