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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Activism among indigenous Hawai'ians increased and was evident in resistance to encroaching urbanisation and military occupation of the land.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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These are cultural beliefs and practices passed down through generations and they are still deeply imbedded in Hawaiians and their religious beliefs.
Ancient Hawaiians believed that when we live our lives connected to Spirit, fully tapped in to our own energetic source, we are Pono.
Hawaiians, disillusioned with their own gods, are receptive to the ideas of Christianity.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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The original Hawaiians were a brown-skinned people of large stature, highly skilled in fishing and farming, who adhered to an extremely rigid and strict system of laws that was set down by their chiefs and their priests.
Paintings and other illustrations of early Hawaiians prior to 1860 in addition to photographs of Hawaiian women taken between 1860 and 1960 provided evidence of design evolution.
Among the Hawaiians and other Polynesian tribes there still exists in daily use a system of consanguinity which is given in the Table, and may be pronounced the oldest known among mankind.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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It is true that ancient Hawaiians swam and surfed nude but that was because their kapa (clothing) did not hold up well in water.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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For many centuries the Hawaiians conducted careful research in order to learn what specific effects the properties of various plants had upon the human body.
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Keiko Miyisawa,
Receptionist
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Hawaiians and Japanese make fish cakes out of bonefish.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Even though most Hawaiians have converted to other religions, their respect and obligation to protect the beliefs and practices of the ancient ones continue.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Native Hawaiians were unable to obtain redress for the state s breaches of the trust until 1991, when the state waived its sovereign immunity and granted Native Hawaiians the right to seek monetary damages through jury trials.
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