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Wikipedia: Native Hawaiians (in Hawaiian, kānaka ʻōiwi, kānaka maoli or Hawaiʻi maoli) refers to the indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands or their descendants. Native Hawaiians trace their ancestry back to prehistoric Marquesan, Tahitian, Samoan settlers of Hawaii (possibly as early as AD 400), before the arrival of British explorer Captain James Cook in 1778. According to the U.S. Census Bureau report for 2000, there are 401,162 people who identified themselves as being "native Hawaiian" alone or in any combination.
![[Old Hawaiian woman, photographed by Christian Hedemann (1883)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Hedemann_Old_Hawaiian_woman_1883_s.jpg "Old Hawaiian woman, photographed by Christian Hedemann (1883)")
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![[A picture of Native Hawaiians]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Liliuokalani_140x190.jpg "A picture of Native Hawaiians")
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![[Daniel Akaka official Senate photo.]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Daniel_Akaka_official_photo_140x190.jpg "Daniel Akaka official Senate photo.")
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![[James Aiona, Lt]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/James_Aiona%2C_Lt._Governor_of_Hawaii%2Cspeaks_to_survivors_140x190.jpg "James Aiona, Lt")
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![[A picture of Native Hawaiians]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Kamehameha_I_140x190.jpg "A picture of Native Hawaiians")
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