Talk:Ancient Hawaiian population
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[edit]This article summarizes the story of Hawaii's population history largely from the perspective one of the participants in an academic debate, namely Dye 1994. It thereby tends to accept as conclusive his arguments from somewhat fragmentary archaeological sources. The article frequently fails to attribute this point of view.
Just as important, there is a range of more recent research coming to conclusions somewhere between Dye's low estimate and Stannard's high estimates. This material should be cited and incorporated. Notably, David Swanson comes to a point estimate of 683,000 Native Hawaiians in 1778. His work is described here:
- Swanson, David (2016-06-02). THE NUMBER OF NATIVE HAWAIIANS AND PART-HAWAIIANS IN HAWAIʻI, 1778 TO 1900: DEMOGRAPHIC ESTIMATES BY AGE, WITH DISCUSSION.
- NW, 1615 L. St; Suite 800Washington; Inquiries, DC 20036USA202-419-4300. "After 200 years, Native Hawaiians make a comeback". Pew Research Center. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
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A possibly complete review of populations estimates is offered in this work by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' Research Division. It shows that European observers in the 1770s and 1780s estimated between 200,000 and 400,000 Native Hawaiians (another estimated 100,000 on Hawai'i island alone). The work is sufficiently careful and exhaustive as to be a good basis for this article overall.--Carwil (talk) 03:08, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
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[edit] This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 January 2022 and 4 May 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Thelivelymoon (article contribs).