for subscribers of the tahitian invasion theory, the first settlers of hawaii came from the small set of islands called polynesia.
for subscribers of the tahitian invasion theory, the first settlers of hawaii came from the small set of islands called polynesia.
for subscribers of the tahitian invasion theory, which small set of islands did the first settlers of hawaii come from?
polynesia
some early scholars theorized that there was a first settlement of hawaii, by settlers from the marquesas islands, and a second, from tahiti. the tahitian settlers oppressed the "commoners", the "manahune" in the tahitian language, who fled to the mountains and were called menahune. proponents of this theory point to an 1820 census of kauai by kaumualii, the ruling "alii aimoku" of the island, which listed 65 people as "menehune".
menehune
evidence for a tahitian conquest of the islands include the legends of hawaiiloa and the navigator-priest paao, who is said to have made a voyage between hawaii and the island of "kahiki" (tahiti) and introduced many customs. early historians, such as fornander and beckwith, subscribed to this tahitian invasion theory, but later historians, such as kirch, do not mention it. king kalakaua claimed that pa'ao was from samoa.
native hawaiians