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The Pacific Ocean surrounds the Hawaiian archipelago. There are eight major and 124 minor islands, volcanic in origin, with a total land mass of 6,425 square miles (16,641 square kilometers). The eight major islands are Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai,...

Hawaiian can refer to: the Hawaiian Islands the Hawaiian language the Hawaiian People (Kānaka maoli) Residents of the state generally do not refer to themselves as Hawaiian unless they in fact have some Hawaiian blood (see above). They might instead...

On 17 January 1893, the monarchy of Hawai'i was deposed by a group who "represented the American and European sugar planters, descendents of missionaries and financiers" (US Public Law 103-150). With the aid of the United States minister, John L Stevens, and US...

Katie Tiger's love affair with Hawaiian shirts did not begin on the Big Island but on a narrow street in Boston's Chinatown. There, her husband spied some dramatic, tiger-strewn fabric in a store window and asked his wife, a skilled amateur seamstress, to whip...

In Hawaii, where blood and ancestry matter as in no other state, a legal challenge is posing this question: Who is sufficiently Hawaiian?In Hawaii, ancestry is more than just a matter of ethnic pride. Under a program created by Congress in 1921, Native Hawaiians with...

A private school system has reached a settlement with a white student who was denied admission because he isn't a Native Hawaiian, ending a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.The settlement between the unidentified student and the Kamehameha Schools system ends the four-year-old lawsuit....