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Kanaka - First Nation

Hawaiian and First Nations families from Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest
  • 184 members

About us

We have found several unique DNA types in our group. We have matched two brothers. We have proven parentage for a woman whose father is deceased, but her Uncles were alive. Family Tree DNA was able to use her DNA and her Uncles DNA to positively identify that the brother of her Uncles was in fact her father. We have established that the ancestral mother of the administrator was Coast Salish and establish the quantum of this woman based on documentation and fact that she was an aboriginal and Hawaiian woman not French as she had claimed.
We have discovered that a relationship between cousins was in fact a "half Cousin" relationship, which meant we have a missing wife. We have identified genetic material which qualifies a member to provide legal evidence that he has rights to join his mothers Canadian band if he chooses a legal challenge. Additionally for those who do not carry either the Polynesian or A Haplogroup we will be able to find living relatives who again have been lost to divisive politics and we will be able to identify some of descendants who currently reside on the Reserves and Territorial lands of today's' First Nations people. We have proven to the office of Hawaiian affairs that this is no fairy tale, but a solid intact piece of the Hawaiian history of migration over the last 200 years of Hawaiian history. These Hawaiians based on our hard work, and the incontestability of DNA will provide further documentation of their presence in the Pacific Northwest and their contributions will not be forgotten.