Many question the History of the Native Hawaiian People known as KANAKA MAOLI…Where did they come from? Who were they? Was there a system, a government? How did they live? When did the Culture of Ancient Hawai’i Die? All great questions and we will do our best to get to the bottom of them here on this podcast about Ancient Hawaii.

 

If no one knows this, there is a  “POLYNESIAN TRIANGLE”  which has the 7 MAIN POLYNESIAN CULTURES:

* Māori (Aotearoa / New Zealand)

* Rapa Nui (now known as Easter Island) (Territory of Chile)

* Marquesas (French Polynesia)

* Sāmoa (Independent Protectorate Of The United States)

* American Samoa (Territory of The United States)

* Tahiti (French Polynesia)

* Tonga (Independent / Partially supported by defense cooperation agreements with Australia, United States, China, United Kingdom, India and New Zealand.)

* Cook Islands (Self Government In Free Association With New Zealand)

* FIJI is NOT part of the POLYNESIAN TRIANGLE as many may think as most are Melanesian, not Polynesian.

It is believed that the first people to inhabit HAWAII were Polynesians from the Marqesas Islands…A race small and short in stature as well as peaceful, to them they had been called MAKA ‘AINANA, which is the accepted word today in Hawaii for a commoner, or a “person who tended the land.”…to those outside Hawaii these first HAWAIIANS had been called “MANAHUNE”…Not MENEHUNE…Manahune stood for small in power or spirit…MANA stands for spiritual power or energy. Later it became MENE. The TAHITIANS are the second group of Polynesians to inhabit the Hawaiian Islands…but the Tahitians had been a WARRIOR RACE and at one time just as Tahitians invaded Hawaii and the Manahune race…Tahiti was also invaded, but by RAIATEA…and go figure the Raiateans had called the Tahitians Manahune…but Tahitians had NOT been small in stature which makes you question if MANAHUNE actually means “small in spiritual energy” or as many believe today as meaning “‘low social status”. You see…there is meaning behind everything and the word MANA or MENE-HUNE has been passed down from one Polynesian race to another. It’s not that these people didn’t exist or had been myths…the fact is that they existed, they build Fish Ponds and Heiaus thousands of years ago in Hawaii and once you understand this and the way ancient Hawaii was it all begins to make sense.

Once the Tahitians had been taken over by the Raiateans, them mixed bloodlines…So who are the ones who truly invaded Hawaii? It seems to be Raiatean/Tahitians…So even once the Tahitians came to Hawaii they as well had not been pure…they carried with them Raiatea and Tahiti culture…Both being Warrior Races the “Hawaiians, AKA Maka ‘ainana or MANAHUNE, who had been a peaceful race, didn’t stand a chance and so started to be taken over and enslaved by the Tahitian Warrior Race.

So what did the Tahitian Warrior Caste sytem bring to Hawaii? Lets break it down…