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  • The movement of ancestral Oceanic people, or kanaka maoli, across remote Oceania was one of the most remarkable feats of open-ocean voyaging and settlement in all of human history.

    Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve 2008

  • Taro is a culturally significant plant to the kanaka maoli, Hawaii's indigenous people.

    Standing Committee Report on Taro Just Issued 2007

  • The final population figure is given as the entirety of the first page of content, which dedicates the book "To the five thousand piha kanaka maoli [pure-blood Hawaiians] who remain"

    Hawaii Reporter 2010

  • Those first kanaka maoli (the Hawaiian name for native Hawaiians) brought their own plants with them.

    Iceland Review 2009

  • Will the kanaka maoli unite their efforts in determining a sovereignty status being sought after by various claimants to the keys of the (Hawaiian) kingdom?

    unknown title 2009

  • 1900 - ORGANIC ACT set up to protect Americans in Hawaii, and disregard the aboriginal Hawaiians/kanaka maoli:

    U.S. AIDING THE CORRUPTION MECCA: HAWAII 2010

  • 1900 - ORGANIC ACT set up to protect Americans in Hawaii, and disregard the aboriginal Hawaiians/kanaka maoli:

    Printing: U.S. AIDING THE CORRUPTION MECCA: HAWAII 2010

  • It's also got a Hawaiian connection: Merwin lives on Kauai, and maoli is the Hawaiian word for "native" or "natural" or "true."

    Wordle Bruce Schauble 2008

  • It's also got a Hawaiian connection: Merwin lives on Kauai, and maoli is the Hawaiian word for "native" or "natural" or "true."

    Archive 2008-06-01 Bruce Schauble 2008

  • It turns out, however, that if you look the word up in a Hawaiian-English Dictionary, you will find that “maoli” in its adjectival form means “native, indigenous, aborigine, genuine, true, real, actual.”

    Archive 2006-12-01 Bruce Schauble 2006

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