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As with other Hawaii locals, Kānaka Maoli typically speak Hawaiian Creole English (referred to locally as Pidgin) in daily life. Pidgin is a creole that developed during the plantation era in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, mixing words and diction from the various ethnic groups living in Hawaii then. [24]
History of Hawaii by ethnic group (2 C) A. African Americans in Hawaii (1 C) Asian-American culture in Hawaii (9 C, 5 P) E. European American culture in Hawaii (3 C ...
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]
Soon, other ethnic groups started to arrive, including Portuguese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Spaniards, Russians, and Norwegians. The result was the multiculturalism of Hawaii and a wedge for ...
The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is a group of nine small, ... Map of the largest racial/ethnic group by area; red indicates Native Hawaiian, blue indicates non ...
Samuel Wilder King (1886–1959), politician, Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii's at-large district from 1935 to 1943; 11th Territorial Governor of Hawaii from 1953 to 1957 Joseph Nawahi (1842–1896), politician, Native Hawaiian nationalist leader, legislator, lawyer, newspaper publisher, and painter
The Hawaiian diaspora or Native Hawaiian diaspora (Hawaiian: Kānaka maoli i nā ʻāina ʻē) are people of full or partial Hawaiian descent living outside of Hawaii. The vast majority of them live in the contiguous United States , [ 1 ] though smaller communities are present elsewhere.
Although the Chinese are only the fifth most populous ethnic group in Hawaii, it is estimated that a third of Hawaii's entire population has some Chinese ancestry. This is due to historically high rates of intermarriage among the early immigrant Chinese men with native Hawaiian women and immigrant women of other ethnicities, such as Portuguese .