[Texan5]

Thanks-what little I’ve read of their origins and other Polynesians don’t indicate a pure ethnic group, either-it talks about people from Australia, Aryans from what is now India, and parts of Asia-all getting into boats and island hopping for centuries-very interesting people, but not ethnically pure, like Obama is wishing-some anthropologists say DNA tests show only 50% of Hawaiians who call themselves natives really are.

[goldbux]

Some of the Maori indigenous to French Polynesia developed excellent navigation skills, using the constellations as a primitive GPS system, & paddled their canoes all the way to Hawaii. That's another racial component to native Hawaiians.

The privately owned island of Niihau in the Hawaiian chain is home to these natives, & is closed to outsiders.

Most native-born Hawaiians who don't claim racial "purity" are proud of their unusual mixed genetic histories.