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Hawaiians (Topical Term)

Preferred form: Hawaiians
Used for/see from:
  • Indigenous peoples Hawaii
  • Indigenous peoples United States
  • Kānaka Maoli
  • Kānaka ʻŌiwi
  • Native Hawaiians
  • ʻŌiwi
  • Owyhees
See also:

Washington Post, Aug. 24, 2000: p. A12 ("Acknowledging 'less than honorable' actions by the United States against Native Hawaiians more than a century ago, the federal government recommended yesterday that indigenous islanders be given the same sovereign status as most American Indians")

Silva, N.K. Aloha betrayed, 2004: p. 12 (kanaka, "person"; maoli "real, true, original, indigenous"; Kanaka by itself also means "Hawaiian"; Kanaka denotes the singular or the category, kānaka is plural; Kanaka Maoli was used officially as early as 1852) p. 13 (ʻŌiwi is interchangeable with Kanaka and Kanaka Maoli)

Wikipedia, Oct. 27, 2007 (Native Hawaiians, in Hawaiian, kānaka; ʻŌiwi or Kānaka Maoli)

Northwest Hawaiʻi times, Aug. 2007 (kamaʻaina profile (Owyhee; written name that Captain James Cook used for the natives of the Sandwich Islands and it is the name that was used for the Hawaiian fur trappers))

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