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= Culture of the Native Hawaiians =

Native Hawaiians Origin and History *
Main Article: Native Hawaiians

Native Hawaiians are originate from Polynesia. Polynesians voyage to Hawaii around 400 A.D. Polynesia is made of multiple islands that includes Hawaii, New Zealand, Samoa, and plenty others, it is all over the Pacific Ocean. Even though Hawaii is part of the United States, it is still consider part Polynesia because the Native Hawaiians are part of the Polynesia people.

Native Hawaiians Religion
Main Article:Hawaiian religion

Kane is the God of creation, Kanaloa is the God of the ocean, Ku is the God of war and male pursuits, and Lono is the God of peace, rain, and fertility. These gods took many forms of things like creatures, trees, water, and sometimes human form.* There are plenty of other gods and goddess, but these Gods were the big four. Today now there is many western influences of different religions like Christianity or Catholics since Hawaii is now more diverse.

Native Hawaiians Today *
Today Hawaii so is diverse since they join the United States and it had became a state, there are not as many pure-blooded native Hawaiians left. Ever since Captain James Cook had discovered Hawaii many Native Hawaiians have died due to all the new diseases expose to them. Captain James Cook Hawaii has so many races now, that Full-Blooded Natives Hawaiians are basically extinct. Many Native Hawaiians are homeless or really poor. In 2016, there are studies from the Department of Housing and Urban Development saying 42% of Hawaii is homeless and most of the homeless are Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. Hawaii's culture may have faded a little, but the culture is still living and beautiful place to see. Natives still there culture practices Hula and Luau celebrations, but it is more for tourist and showing off the Hawaiians culture for economic gains. On average about 220,000 tourist go to Hawaii a day according to the studies in 2016. Westernization has influence Hawaii to be more of a place for economic gains instead of the beautiful culture it was. Still to this day many Native Hawaiians are trying to fight back for their land and stop the injustices that are happening there in Hawaii.