How real is the rascism ?

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Midnight Rambler,
The Maka'ainana were the "serf" class in Hawaii, under the ahupua'a system they were the labor class who farmed, fished, fought and built things, all under the direction of the kahunas who were the advisors to the ali'i. This system was in effect when Cook came, although after he united the Hawaiian Islands, King Kamehameha weakened the relationship between maka'ainana and the ali'i and the close ties to ahupua'a suffered. There was a lower class of "untouchables" who were the kauwa, they were prisoners of war, convicted criminals, and often were used for human sacrifice. It has been theorized by some anthropologists that they included the last remnants of the original populations of the islands.

Somewhere I saw a copy of a census from the early 20th century where over 300 people identified themselves as menehune, it might have been in the Bishop museum archives.

Carol