Kanakas

When the schooner departed, he called the kanakas down to the beach and challenged them to throw him in a wrestling bout, promising a case of tobacco to the one who succeeded. ❋ Jack London (1896)

The Hawaiians have often been referred to as kanakas, which on the mainland has developed into more or less of a slang word to designate the people of the Hawaiian race. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)

So Ka’ahumanu harnessed ten of the strongest kanakas, that is, Hawaiian men, and they pulled the carriage. ❋ Robin Jones Gunn (2010)

So soundly did the kanakas sleep through that long hot day that they did not see the cutter run out through the passage and head south, close-hauled on the southeast trade. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The upper ledge of the two, by their own traditions, was the highest the best of the kanakas had ever dared since their traditions began. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As for us kanakas, our heads were hot and light and rattly as dry gourds with the whisky and the rum. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some of the haole sailors grumbled; but they were few in the land in those days and the kanakas many. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As long as the kanakas of Huahoa survive he will remain tradition — ­Get ready, ❋ Unknown (2010)

You know many things of the old days better than we old kanakas. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Three kanakas he threw, but was promptly thrown by a fourth, who, instead of receiving the tobacco, got a bullet through his lungs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The kanakas and wahines of the drinking were gone. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The humble New Englanders who came out in the third decade of the nineteenth century, came for the lofty purpose of teaching the kanakas the true religion, the worship of the one only genuine and undeniable God. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She was still asleep when the bunch of kanakas, hunting wild goats from the next valley, found us. ❋ Unknown (2010)

No kanakas lay asleep in the sand, nor stole home from their love-making; and no canoes were abroad after the early fish most catchable then inside the reef at the change of the tide. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Anapuni and I were only commoners, as were all of us kanakas and wahines who were at the drinking with the common sailors and whaleship men from before the mast. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He's [kanaka maoli]. ([native] [man]) ❋ Kanitha (2007)

[Eh] [bra] [das] 1 kanaka right their ❋ Kelvin Henderson (2007)

wassup [kanak] bra get waves i heard for real [kanaka] shoots we go.or hey look that kanaka just gave him a kanakattack [false crack] medivac ❋ Cecillio Martinez (2007)

She not [sole] [brah], she [kanaka]. ❋ Monkibutt (2009)

[KEAKA] is a real Kanaka [da] best [kine]! ❋ Elizadu (2017)

[Jeffa] ([Heffer]) gave Tony a special Tae-Bo kanaka and Tony lost [35] pounds. ❋ Poiboy (2005)

Person 1: " Hey, look at that, it's [a banana]!" Person 2: " Indeed it is, or a [kanaka], they are the same thing" Person 1: " [I knew that], because they are synonymous." ❋ TheFalconPuncher (2014)

[KEAKA] is a real Kanaka [da] best [kine]! ❋ Elizadu (2017)

He [kanaka maoli] [au]. (I am a [native] person) I am a kanaka maoli. ❋ Danumba1 (2018)

"[PRAISE] THE [KANAKAS]!! OR YOU SHALL GET CONSTANTLY EATEN BY VARPISAURI FOR ALL OF [ETERNITY]" ❋ 69Kana69 (2018)