Congratulations -- your baby now weighs more than a pound, and is stronger this week than he has ever been.
Located in an area of historical and cultural significance to the KÄnaka Maoli, the indigenous people of Hawaiâi, the MÄnoa campus in particular offers a resource-rich and exciting environment for Pacific Islands studies. Faculty on this campus alone offer over one hundred courses emphasizing the Pacific Islands region.ocated in an area of historical and cultural significance to the KÄnaka Maoli, the indigenous people of Hawaiâi, the MÄnoa campus in particular offers a resource-rich and exciting environment for Pacific Islands studies. Faculty on this campus alone offer over one hundred courses emphasizing the Pacific Islands region.
Annexation of Hawaii, 1898 America's annexation of Hawaii in 1898 extended U.S. territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power. For most of the 1800s, leaders in Washington were concerned that Hawaii might become part of a European nation's empire.