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Kanalu Young, PhD.

• Aboriginal: The first people to be there.
  • Descend, geneology, prior to 1778 (Cook)
• Plants
  • Edemic: Developed & of here
  • native plants: grown here, these plants got here without the help of humans.  Got here from the W's.
    • Three W's
      • Waves
      • Wind
      • Wings
• Hawaiian Native:  Someone born in Hawaii
  • A native boy/girl of these islands.
• Native was as haole's thought of savages, heathens, non-catholic, non-religious
• 1842-1843
  • Already had sovereignty, trying to regain it.
  • first non-European to become a sovereign state/nation.
• native: You native are nature
• Social Darwinism
  • The darker you are, the lower you go in the "food chain" / "hiarchy" 
  • african genes are dominant
• 1978: OHA created (Office of Hawaiian Affairs)
• Kehau Kauanui: Blood Quantum paper
  • They first gave OHA a blood quantum  of 1/32 and federal goverment pushed it to 50% Hawaiian
• People don't like the word "Hawaiian" so they use words like "Kanaka", "Kanaka Maoli" and "'Oiwi"