some demographers believe that by the year 2025, the last full-blooded native hawaiian will die off, leaving a culturally distinct, but racially mixed population. the total number of persons who have identified as native hawaiian in 2008 was more than the estimated hawaiian population when the us annexed the islands in 1898. native hawaiians are receiving ancestral land reparations. throughout hawaii, they are working to preserve and assert adaptation of native hawaiian customs and the hawaiian language. they have cultural schools solely for legally native hawaiian students. (see also, "hawaiian renaissance" and "hawaiian sovereignty movement").