Since Hawaii is a state in America?

Question

does that mean that the religion of the Kahuna is also a Native american religion?

would the native religion of Hawaii be considered a native american religion since hawaii is part of america?

Answer 1

ah. youre misunderstanding the word "native"

native = part of or originally part of. so no, it isnt a native american religion.

Answer 2

Yes and no. The term "Native American" refers to the people, who most believe crossed the Bering straight sometime most likely during an ice age. This people were hunters and religion reflected that. Hawaii was settled by sailors coming from the lower part of Asia. There religion also reflects this. Mostly respecting the ocean and volcanic forces. More of the eastern feel than were Native Americans respected the land and the animals. It may not be the same as the native Americans but it is apart of early American religion, along with the Mayas and the Aztecs. And just to add there have been people on Hawaii since the European culture learned to sail. History tells us that the first explores to come to Hawaii we met by a native people with their own religion. This is supported by the fact that their were people on Easter island when it was first discovered. True fifty years later they had destroyed themselves and wasted resources on building those heads are where sold in to slavery by European explores.

Answer 3

Since Hawaii has only been a state for 50 years, I don't think it is considered a native american religion. I also think there is a difference between native american and native hawaiian.

Answer 4

Hawaiians are considered pacific islanders and or Polynesians, native american refers to what most people would call the "indians", the ones who were on north america first and then the white man came and took the land from them.

Answer 5

I have never heard of Hawaiians being referred to as "Native Americans" like the Souix or Chippewa. I have heard them referred to as either Hawaiians or indigenous people.

I would think that the religion of Kahuna is a Hawaiian religion, indigenous religion, or simply a religion.

Interesting question, though!

Answer 6

America has no native religion. All of the religion in America was brought over from other countries.

Answer 7

Since the arrival of haole to the islands, Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) history is complex. The missionaries arrived in 1820 and systematically dismantled pre-contact religious practices. However, many of these traditions survived and are practiced in private by Native Hawaiians. Similar to the colonization of Mexico, pre-contact traditions were incorporated into Christianity. Visit any Hawaiian church and you will see traces of the past.

Hawaii, before European contact
Polynesians first came to Hawaii in double-hulled canoes from the Marquesas Islands around A.D. 700, or possibly earlier. Agricultural chiefdoms emerged as the population grew from a few hundred to approximately 400,000 by the time Captain Cook arrived at the end of the 18th century.

Religion touched nearly every aspect of Hawaiian life, including birth, marriage, death, house construction, fishing, agriculture and war. Hawaiians participated in ritualized worship in their homes, agricultural temples and grand temples dedicated to the gods of war. A multilevel hierarchy of classes emerged within Hawaii’s religion-dominated chiefdoms, with professional priests and chiefs at the top.

At some point before contact with Europe, ancient Hawaiian society shifted away from chiefdoms where rulers and peasants were thought to be of the same blood line and land was held in families. In the “archaic states” that emerged next, class lines were drawn more clearly, and the king and high-ranked chiefs controlled the land. Rulers described themselves as descendants of gods, agriculture intensified, forced labor emerged and rulers implemented a tax system linked to temple rituals.

Hawaiian temples to the gods of agriculture and war — monumental platforms and terraces made of boulders composed of cooled lava — provide tangible archaeological evidence for this transition from chiefdoms to archaic states, according to study author Patrick Kirch from the University of California at Berkeley.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6792150/

Check out this historical timeline for further perspective: http://www.hawaii-nation.org/chrono1.html
March 31, 1820 First American Calvanist Missionaries arrive

And for a contemporary view:

Makahiki allowed for Hawaii inmates on mainland
By Mary Adamski
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Hawaiian inmates at an Oklahoma prison practiced last night for their Sunday Makahiki celebration, an event their supporters hail as a victory for religious freedom.

About 100 men will mark the ancient Hawaiian tradition, ending the season of peace and honoring Lono, the god of agriculture, peace and fertility. Chanting, hula, a cleansing ritual written for the men by kumu John Keola Lake, and an awa-drinking ceremony are on the agenda, as well as a feast with laulau, fish and poi.
http://starbulletin.com/2005/02/08/news/story3.html

A DIFFICULT TIME TO BE A KANAKA MAOLI IN HAWAII
Honolulu Advertiser, January 2001
CHARLES K. MAXWELL Sr.
The word for this series is well chosen, however Ka Huliau (time of change) is not only happening now. Our ancestors in a chant called "Au a ia" predicted it. It spoke about foreigners arriving on these shores, and how our culture and land would be seized and our race would be scattered all over this world. When Capt. James Cook arrived in 1778, the prophecy came true. Having studied the history of Hawaii and being involved in the Hawaiian movement for the last 31 years, this is a difficult time to be a Kanaka Maoli. The reason being that Spiritually and Culturally, we are the only group of people in the world that connect to these islands as children of the gods, Papa the Earth mother and Wakea, the Sky father. Our parents taught us at a very young age that because you have the "Koko"(blood), the blood flowing in your veins, this land would always be yours. That the land (mountains and oceans) cannot be mistreated or degraded that you always must "malama" take care of the land. As you grow up you find that not everyone respects the land as you were taught. They dig huge holes in it, bomb it, pour all kinds of chemicals on it, put concrete and asphalt to build hotels and condos, disregard the warnings of the Kupuna (elders). The life giving water from the mountains is polluted and we have to drink bottled water. Our lo¹i (taro patches), which produce our staple food, is endangered because the water is being used for other crops, which are foreign. Many of our natural foods from the ocean are extinct because of the runoffs from the land and the heavy recreational use of the near shore waters. Our people are at the top of the social ills in Hawaii and the Nation by being the poorest in health, the most in prison, the highest in drug abuse, homeless, education and the list goes on. There are "wana-be-hawaiians", who under the guise of the United State Constitution want to create fear and discontent among our people by attacking what is due us from the Illegal overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani. Our Queen represented a legacy of indigenous rulers who ruled the dominion and domain of these islands for the last thousand years. As present day Hawaiians our legacy to this islands must be recognized by at least the United States of America. The United Nations can recognize us, but will they defend our right to this land and insist that America "give back" what was taken. Not really. It will take the efforts of, non-Hawaiians all over the world who have been helping us over these many years to truly make Hawaii and its Indigenous people a place where "Aloha can be truly shared by all."
http://www.moolelo.com/difficult-time.html

Answer 8

Of course. Whatever.