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|poptime= alone: 164,918, any combination: 527,077 as of the 2010 census.〔(U.S. 2000 Census )〕〔(US Census Bureau. American FactFinder )〕 |regions = |languages = English, Hawaiian, and Pidgin |religions = Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Mormonism,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hawaii's Mormons: 'Chosen People, Promised Land' - Civil Beat )〕 Hawaiian religion }} Native Hawaiians (Hawaiian: ''kānaka ʻōiwi'', ''kānaka maoli'', and ''Hawaiʻi maoli'') are the indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands or their descendants. Native Hawaiians trace their ancestry back to the original Polynesian settlers of Hawaii. 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, but they are not considered Native Americans.〔 140,652 people identified themselves as being "Native Hawaiian" alone.〔 The majority of Native Hawaiians reside in State of Hawaiʻi and the American Southwest. Two-thirds live in the State of Hawaii while the other one-third is scattered among other states, with a high concentration in California. The history of Native Hawaiians, like the history of Hawaii, is commonly classified into four major periods: * the pre-unification period (before c. 1800) * the unified monarchy and republic period (c. 1800 to 1898) * the US territorial period (1898 to 1959) * the US statehood period (1959 to present) ==Origins== One hypothesis is that the first Polynesians arrived in Hawaii in the 3rd century from the Marquesas and were followed by Tahitians in AD 1300, who conquered the original inhabitants. Another is that a single, extended period of settlement populated the islands. Evidence for a Tahitian conquest of the islands include the legends of Hawaiiloa and the navigator-priest Paao, who is said to have made a voyage between Hawaii and the island of "Kahiki" (Tahiti) and introduced many customs. Early historians, Fornander and Beckwith, subscribed to this Tahitian invasion theory, but later historians, such as Kirch, do not mention it. King Kalakaua claims that Paao was from the South Pacific. Some writers claim that other settlers in Hawaii were forced back into remote valleys by newer arrivals. They claim that stories about the Menehune, little people who built heiau and fishponds, prove the existence of ancient peoples who settled the islands before the Hawaiians.〔The best survey of these stories, all collected in the latter part of the 19th century, is found in Beckwith's ''Hawaiian mythology'', pp. 321-336.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Native Hawaiians」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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