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Most Pacific Islander Americans are of Native Hawaiian, Samoan, and Chamorro origin. The fact that Hawaii is a US state (meaning that almost the entire native Hawaiian population lives in the US), as well as the migration and high birth rate of the Pacific Islanders have favored the permanence and increase of this population in the US ...
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]
In 2000, "Asian" and "Pacific Islander" became two separate racial categories. [56] According to the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program (PEP), a "Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander" is, A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific islands.
In 1898 the United States enacted the Newlands Resolution, annexing the Hawaiian islands. [17] In 1959, following a referendum in which over 93% of Hawaiian residents voted in favor of statehood, Hawaii became the 50th state. At its height the Hawaiian population an estimated 683,000 Native Hawaiians lived in the islands. [18]
New research shows that Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders between the ages of 20 and 49 have the highest death rates from any type of cancer among all racial groups of that age bracket.
In the U.S., Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiians make up 0.4% of the undergraduate population. Pacific Islander students lack resources, scholarship opportunities
It might surprise Seattle residents to learn that nearly two in five of the city’s Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) residents have been the victim of a racially ...
Hawaii was the first territory to send a Pacific Islander to the House of Representatives (in 1900) and was also the first state to send a Pacific Islander to the U.S. Senate (in 1990). Since 1957, 41 Asian Americans have been elected as U.S. Representatives and 9 as U.S. Senators.