Migration to Hawaii
Chronology:

More than 2000 years ago First settlers arrive in Ka Pae'ina from the Marquesas Islands

750 A.D. Probable migration from Tahiti

ca. 1200 Stopped excursions and settled

1778 The first foreigners, Captain James Cook and his crew, came to Ka Pae'ina; the Kanaka Maoli have a hierarchical society

1789 The first U.S. sea merchants arrived for mid-ocean provisions

1810 Kamehameha I, the first King of Hawai'i established a government of the Hawaiian Islands

1820-1850 New England Calvinist missionaries arrived

1823 Skilled Chinese workers arrive to help set up sugar mills

1840 U.S. missionary-drafted constitution for a Euro-American monarchial government

1841 Kanaka Maoli kingdom became first nation in the world with a tuition-free public school system, resulting in the highest known literacy rate

1848-1850 Missionary-urged land laws replaced communal native land use with private ownership of land

1850 Kanaka Maoli kingdom became first nation to establish a board of health to inspect newly arriving ships for contagious infections

1852 Second group of Chinese arrive

1853 Smallpox epidemic among the Hawaiian population

1854 Kanaka Maoli kingdom became first nation to require smallpox vaccination

1868 First small group of Japanese arrive

1878 First Portuguese arrive from Madeira

1881 A group of German Caucasians arrive

1884-1886 Five shiploads of Portuguese arrive

1885 Main Japanese immigration begins

1887 "Bayonet" treaty

1893 U.S. armed invasion seized government and lands of the Kanaka Maoli kingdom in violation of treaties and international law, holocaust of more than 90% of the indigenous Hawaiians, proclaimed Hawai'i a protectorate of the U.S., called for the restoration of the Hawaiian monarchy; Provisional Government refused and pursued annexation.

1894 Annexation denied; Provisional Government declared itself to be the Republic of Hawai'i.  Sanford Ballard Dole elected president of the Republic of Hawai'i

1895 Republic of Hawai'i forced queen to abdicate her throne

1898 Through the Newlands Resolution, from the Spanish-American War, the Republic of Hawai'i ceded to the U.S., and annexed Hawai'i as part of the U.S.

1900 Okinawan immigration begins
 Chinese Exclusion Act

1903 Korean immigration begins

1906 Immigration of Filipinos begins

1907 Presidential executive order banning further immigration

1908 Life expectancy at birth of Kanaka Maoli continued to be shortest

1910-1930 Piha Kanaka Maoli had highest overall age-adjusted mortality rate

1910-1980 Foremost fatal ailments are TB, pneumonia-influenza, gastrointestinal disorders, and heart disease

1920-1930 Sharp rise in Caucasian immigration - members of the U.S. armed forces

1921-1925 Korean brides arrive
 

1924 Oriental Exclusion Act closes door on free entry of laborers to the United States
  English Standard school established

1934 Tydings-McDuffie Act Restricts annual immigration of Filipinos to quota of 50

1924-1936 Continued Japanese immigration (about 100 per year)

1940 Heart disease becomes dominant

1941-1945 World War II

1945 Governor of Hawaii reopens immigration, citing labor shortage

 Second wave of Filipino immigration - workers, wives, and children

1946 Unionization of plantation workers

1953 Workers offered opportunity to purchase plantation homes

1959 Hawai'i becomes the Fiftieth State

1960 Economic boom

1965 President Lyndon Johnson signs new immigration bill, increasing quota to 20,000 (not including spouses and children of U.S. citizens)

 Third wave of Filipino immigration

1969 War brides arrive (wives of American servicemen in Korea)

1970 Second Chinese immigration, from Taiwan and Hong Kong

1975 Vietnamese refugees arrive

1978 Laotian and Cambodian refugees arrive

1983 Public attention brought to Kanaka Maoli health

1985 E Ola Mau Native Hawaiian Health Needs Study Report published

1988, 1992 U.S. Native Hawaiian Health Care Acts

Adapted from People and Cultures of Hawaii - A Psychocultural Profile; John F. McDermott; Wen-Shing Tseng; Thomas W. Maretzki, 1980 and Asian American and Pacific Islander Journal of Health,The Health Status of Kanaka Maoli (Indigenous Hawaiians), Autumn 1993, Vol.1, No. 2.

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