Come And Join Me For Some Fun Learning About Hawaii!
HAWAII'S CULTURE
Website Used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_Native_Hawaiians?scrlybrkr
In this paragraph you will learn about Hawaii's culture. The Native Hawaiian culture is more than 1,500 years old. It has it's own origins in the Polynesians who voyaged to and settled in Hawaii. These Native Hawaiians developed culinary, artistic, and religious culture and practices. Hooponopono is a culture practice of reconciliation and forgiveness, usually combined with prayers. Similar forgiveness practices were performed on islands throughout the South Pacific, including Samoa, Tahiti and New Zealand. It is used in spiritual, emotional, metal, and physical healing practices. Traditional Hawaiian philosophy does not consider the physical and non-physical aspects of the world to be separate, therefor, to heal one aspect, all must be healed.
The first people to arrive in Hawaii were the Polynesians. They traveled to Hawaii around 500 AD by canoe. They farmed the land and fished for food. The first recorded visit to Hawaii by a European was by British explorer Captain James Cook in 1778. At first, the local inhabitants treated Cook as if he was a god. They brought him and his crew many gifts. Cook named the islands the Sandwich Islands after the Earl of Sandwich. In a later visit to the islands, Cook's crew got into a fight with the local natives and Cook was killed. Each island was ruled by a different chief. In the late 1700s, one chief, Chief Kamehameha, began to rise to power. One by one he took over each of the islands. By 1810, he had taken control of all the islands and became the first Hawaiian king. In 1893, the Kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown and the Republic of Hawaii was established. A few years later, in 1898, Hawaii became a territory of the United States. Over the next several years the United States would built military bases on the islands including Pearl Harbor.
|
FUN FACTS ABOUT HAWAII
websites used http://www.50states.com/facts/hawaii.htm
|
|
|