Hawaii's Culture

Hawaii has a large mixture of cultures. The people of Hawaii can trace their lineage back to almost every area or cultural region in the world. Many citizens have a mixed ancestry of Japanese, Hawaiian, Chinese, Spanish, German, Korean, Puerto Rican, Filipino, Portuguese, Indian, Samoan, Vietnamese, and Anglo-Saxon.

Learn More about the Hawiian Culture.

• Find Out Your Hawaiian Name
• Hawaiian Cultural Preservation Association - established to help perpetuate and preserve the wonderfully unique culture of Hawaii, embracing many dimensions of Hawaiian culture: dance, art, music, language, and literature.
• Hawaiian Lu'au - with pictures, sound, video. Themes: hula, chants, falsetto singing, slack key guitar, lei-making and food.
• Hawaiian Music and Culture in the Greater Boston and New England Area - information on Hawaii-related concerts, events, hula workshops and classes, clubs, entertainers, and businesses.
• Hawaiian Music and Culture in the New York City Metro Area - information on Hawaii-related concerts, events, hula workshops and classes, clubs, entertainers, and businesses.
• Maui Nui: Hawaiian Culture Online - links to numerous sites on topic areas including music, language, voyaging, and sovereignty.
• Na Manu O Kaiona - authentic native Hawaiian dance instruction and performance.
• No Ka 'Oi Hawaiian Connections
• O Da Kine Christmas Tree - all about Christmas in Hawaii.
• People, Culture and Language of Hawai'i
• alt.culture.hawaii
• alt.music.hawaiian

Learn More about the Language.

• Hawaiian Language - informative site for those wishing to learn the Hawaiian language: beginner lessons, Hawaiian culture, music, chant, proverbs, language links and general Hawai`i info.
• Hawaiian Language: Traditional and Pidgin
• Hawaiian Dictionary Online - Hawaiian-English and English-Hawaiian words.

Learn More about the Food.

• Electric Kitchen, The - a collection of Hawaiian recipes from the Hawaiian Electric Company's television program.
• Usenet - alt.recipes.hawaii

Sovereignty Issues.

• `Onipa`a - examines Hawaiian sovereignty, current affairs, history, geography, language, and more.
• Anti-Hawaiian Sovereignty - asserts that the movement has racist goals.
• Hawai'i - Independent & Sovereign Nation-State - information regarding the legal foundation for the restoration of Hawaiian independence.
• Hawaiian Sovereignty Elections Council - archives of this Council created to facilitate a process to determine whether a sovereign Hawaiian government will be created and what form it might take.
• Institute for the Advancement of Hawaiian Affairs - Hawaiian sovereignty and self-determination, including indigenous rights, human rights, decolonization, cultural development, health, and sacred times and places are discussed.
• Ka Lahui Hawai'i: The Sovereign Nation of Hawai'i - a native initiative for Hawaiian self-governance, formed by and for native Hawaiians, without the interference of State or Federal agencies.
• Kingdom of Hawai'i - concerning reinstatement and recognition of the Kingdom of Hawai'i.
• Re-Building a Nation - questions and answers about sovereignty, including the various models of sovereignty.
• Roles of Non-Hawaiians in the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement - Masters thesis by Anthony Castanha examining roles of, and impacts on, non-Hawaiians in four models of Hawaiian self-government, based on interviews with fifteen sovereignty leaders.