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Practically all native Hawaiians are fluent in the English language as a result of both the emphasis the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi put on learning English, as well as over a century of being an integral part of the United States of America. Some native Hawaiians, as well as non-native Hawaiians have learned the native Hawaiian language as a second language. As with their neighbors and peers of other races, native Hawaiians also often speak Hawaiian Pidgin developed during Hawaiʻi's plantation era in the l ...

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In Hawaiian it is called 'Ohe Hano Ihu' (bamboo flute of the nose). It is played with the nose over a slanted, sharp-edged hole that splits the air stream into two fluctuating streams, which sets the air inside the flute into a vibrating state; this is the same principle that sounds other types of flutes. The tube of bamboo is cut with one closed end node wall, and with one open (distal) end of the tube, which, in playing position, is pointed away from the player. The holes for the fingers in the side of the internodal length of the tube all ...

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While Kamehameha IV succeeded in developing the Hawaiian gothic style, Kamehameha V fathered Hawaiian renaissance architecture. Commissioned in 1850, the last king of the House of Kamehameha originally planned Aliiolani Hale to be his royal palace inspired by the sleek beauty of historic Italian structures. In the middle of its construction, the building was changed to become the kingdom's judicial center. Renaissance comes from the Italian word for rebirth. Hawaiian renaissance was therefore a rebirth of traditional Roman architectural prin ...

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At the same time that the monarchy and various corporations developed downtown Honolulu with their renditions of Hawaiian renaissance styles, residential homes were being built in the outskirts of the city and elsewhere in the state. The style became known as Hawaiian plantation architecture featuring low profile wood frames, vertical plank siding and large porticos. Roofs were the most distinguishable parts of Hawaiian plantation structures as they were wide-hipped or bellcast and had eaves that were deep bracketed. When viewed against the ...

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At the time of Captain Cook's arrival, native Hawaiians numbered over 800,000. Over the span of the first century after first contact, native Hawaiians declined in population by 80%, dying from diseases introduced to the islands. Native Hawaiians did not have immunity to influenza, measles, and whooping cough, among others. The census of 1900 identified only 40,000 native Hawaiians. The census of 2000 identified 400,000 native Hawaiians, demonstrating a trend of dramat ...

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The first experiment of gothic architecture in Hawaii was undertaken by the Hawaii Catholic Church. Discontent with the earliest designs of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in 1910, Bishop Libert H. Boeynaems began an ambitious project to transform the Hawaiian mission cathedral into a unique cathedral in what was to be called Hawaiian gothic architecture. The first phase of Boeynaemes' project was the construction of an elaborate porch over the cathedral entrance. By the time it was completed, he had exhausted his financing. Such an elabo ...

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Daniel Akaka (D) Hawaii (Hawaiian/Hawaiian English: Hawaiʻi, with the ʻokina; also, historically, the Sandwich Islands) is the archipelago of the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Admitted on August 21, 1959, Hawaii constitutes the 50th state of the United States and is situated 2500 miles from the mainland. It is the southernmost part of that country. As of the 2000 U.S. Census it had a population of 1,211,537 people. Honolu ...

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The chain of islands or archipelago formed as the Pacific plate moves slowly northwestward over a hotspot in the earth's crust. Hence the islands in the northwest of the archipelago are older and typically smaller (have been eroding far longer). Because of the composition of the magma in the hotspot, the composition of Hawaiian volcanoes is basaltic. The majority of eruptions in Hawai‘i are Hawaiian-type eruptions because basaltic magma is relativ ...

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Aliʻiolani Hale is a building located in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii, currently used as the home of the Hawaii State Supreme Court. It is the former seat of government of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the Republic of Hawaii. Located in the building's courtyard is the famed gold-leaf statue of Kamehameha the Great. Aliiolani Hale - Establishment and monarchy period. Ali'iolani Hale was originally designed in a Renaissance revival style as the royal palace for King Kamehameha V. ...

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Traditional Hawaiian architecture experienced its first revolution with the arrival of Congregational missionary Hiram Bingham. Presbyterian religious families followed suit and settled in the major port towns of Honolulu and Lahaina. Upon their arrival, they erected the first frame houses in Hawaii, employing a style derived from the simple Congregational meeting-houses and farmhouse vernacular buildings of New England. They were simple homes with high-pitched roofs and overlapping weatherboards called clapboards. The simplicity and unassum ...

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Pidgin also has distinct grammatical forms not found in SAE, but some of which are shared with other dialectal forms of English or may derive from other linguistic influences. Forms used for SAE "to be": Generally, forms of English "to be" (i.e. the copula) are omitted when referring to inherent qualities of an object or person, forming in essence a stative verb form. Additionally, inverted sentence order may be used for emphasis. (Many East Asian languages use stative verbs instead of the copula-adjective construction of ...

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Hawaiian Pidgin, Hawaiian Pidgin - History, Hawaiian Pidgin - Perceptions, Hawaiian Pidgin - Pronunciation, Hawaiian Pidgin - Grammatical Features, Hawaiian Pidgin - Literature and performing arts, Hawaiian Pidgin - Miscellaneous

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Native Hawaiians are completely integrated into American society and culture, and like all other children in Hawaiʻi, they are publicly educated by the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, the largest and most centralized of the United States educational system. Hawaiʻi is the only state without local community control of schools. Under the administration of Governor Benjamin J. Cayetano (D-HI) from 1994 to 2002, the state's educational system establi ...

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Pidgin English originated as a form of communication used between native and non-native English speakers in Hawai'i. It supplanted the pidgin Hawaiian used on the plantations and elsewhere in Hawai'i. It has been influenced by many languages, including Portuguese, Hawaiian, and Cantonese, one of the Chinese languages. As people of other nationalities were brought in to work in the plantations, such as Japanese, Filipinos, and Koreans, Pidgin English acquired words from these languages. Japanese loanwords in Hawaii lists some of those words originally from Japanese. It has also been influenced to a lesser degree by Spanish spoken by M ...

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Today, most people raised in Hawai‘i can speak and understand Pidgin to some extent. At the same time, many people who know Pidgin can code-switch between standard American English and Pidgin depending on the situation. Knowledge of Pidgin is considered by many to be an important part of being considered "local," regardless of racial and socioeconomic background. For example, the Hawaii-born CEO of one of the largest banks in the state said of the Mainland-born CEO of a competing bank, "Anytime he wants to d ...

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Another important outgrowth of the 1978 Hawaiʻi State Constitutional Convention was the establishment of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, more popularly known as OHA. Delegates that included future Hawaiʻi political stars Benjamin J. Cayetano, John D. Waihee III and Jeremy Harris were compelled to create measures that would right alleged injustices imposed on native Hawaiians since the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. OHA was established as a trust, ...

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Native Hawaiian culture saw a revival in recent years as an outgrowth of decisions made at the 1978 Hawaiʻi State Constitutional Convention, held exactly 200 years after the arrival of Captain Cook. At the convention, the Hawaiʻi state government committed itself to a progressive study and preservation of native Hawaiian culture, history and language. A comprehensive Hawaiian culture curriculum was introduced into the State of Hawaiʻi's public el ...

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Native Hawaiians - Native American Programs Act. In 1974, the Native American Programs Act was amended to include native Hawaiians as a category of indigenous people of the United States. This paved the way for native Hawaiians to become eligible for some, but not all, federal assistance programs originally meant for Native Americans. In order to become eligible for al ...

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In recent years, writers from Hawai‘i have written poems, short stories, and other works in Pidgin. This list included well-known Hawai'i authors such as Lois-Ann Yamanaka and Lee Tonouchi. A Pidgin translation of the New Testament (called Da Jesus Book) has also been created. Several theater companies in Hawai'i produce plays written and performed in Pidgin. The most notable of these companies is Kumu Kahua Theater. ...

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