Is any of Hawaii or tropical islands reserved for Natives?

Or is it basically all inhabited and altered by rich, white people? I was watching a fictional film about a girl who inherits a tropical island. She's half Polynesian, and her mother's family has ownership of the island. She's the end of the line. She has the choice to keep it as is - basically only Natives are there, and they live simply, preserving nature. Or she can sell it to a resort company. It looks so beautiful - only Native islanders and no hotels or Burger King's. I've never left the mainland U.S., and really wouldn't want to because I think some things are better left alone. From what I've seen, Hawaii and other islands have been built up so much by rich people who want to buy paradise that it isn't paradise anymore. There was a big big mess over building a Wal-mart over an old Native Hawaiian burial ground - ultimately, the Wal-mart was built. Not to be racist, but Hawaii isn't meant for old white people - people in hot climates require darker skin to protect them from the elements.



Anyway, I wonder if any of Hawaii or tropical islands has been preserved? And how much of it? Do poorer Native people just get pushed out? I love this movie, but wonder how realistic it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj-IshYei…Is any of Hawaii or tropical islands reserved for Natives?
Niihau is a privately owned island with an area of 69.5 square miles southeast of Kauai. The island has approximately 160 permanent inhabitants nearly all of whom are Native Hawaiians who live in the island's main settlement of Puuwai. The islands owners strive to preserve the Hawaiian culture and traditions by restricting the population to native Hawaiians and residents to speak in the Hawaiian Language. As a result, Niihau is the only Hawaiian island where Hawaiian is spoken as a primary language. It is open to very limited tours and safaris.

Kamehameha Schools, located throughout the islands also do much to preserve Hawaiian culture, traditions, and Language.

http://www.ksbe.edu/



Kahoolawe is a desert island of Maui, and it is uninhabated because it has been used for years for gunnery and bombing exercises. In 1993, Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawai?i sponsored Title X of the Fiscal Year 1994 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, directing that the United States convey Kaho?olawe and its surrounding waters to the State of Hawaii. Currently it is under environmental restoration and the military is in the process of removing all unexploded ordnance. The goal is to establish a “meaningful safe use of the island for appropriate cultural, historical, archaeological, and educational purposes, as determined by the State of Hawaii.”



I’ve visited Hawaii many times, and it is still paradise. Like any other state there are major cities and urbanized areas, but there are quaint towns rural areas as well. It is not the big built up mess that you are imagining. On Oahu there are a large number of Asians particularly Japanese but there are Hawaiians, Caucasians, and African Americans as well, and this has been the case for many years. On Maui, there are a large number of Caucasians as well, but also Hawaiians and African Americans. Molokai has the highest percent of and is the least developed. Hawaii is a state with a great amount of diversity geographically, biologically which gives the state much of its appeal. Diversity is a good thing, and Hawaii is meant for anyone who appreciates it. I hope someday you will travel to Hawaii and experience all the wonders that the Aloha state has to offer.
Niihau is the only one reserved for native Hawaiians.

Molokai is accessible to anybody.



Niihau has no air service, other than a chartered helicopter.

Molokai has regular air service throughout the day, seven days a week



Niihau allows limited day tours to a small number of people, but residency is limited to native Hawaiians.Is any of Hawaii or tropical islands reserved for Natives?
i lived in Hawaii for 11 years and i got to know of 2 islands that are hard to get on to and they are for the native Hawaiians. the Islands are Kahoolawe and Niihau. If you asked anyone on the streets about they could tell you more. I have never been there but my friends go and they said it was really hard to get there if you weren't Hawaiian.
I believe that French Polynesia is one of the only places where ownership of land is restricted to indigenous people.
Only Ni'ihau.
Ni'ihau
i dont think so. sorry. * _ *
Well, there is Niihau, which is privately owned (by a family of European descent). Access is tightly controlled. Those who are given permission to live there are committed to perpetuating the use of the Hawaiian language for daily communication and maintaining as traditional a lifestyle as possible. The island does run out of freshwater from time to time, and the residents have to evacuate to Kauai for a time.



There is also Molokai, where 75% of the school children have some Native Hawaiian ancestry, and another 19% are Filipino. They have had more success in chasing off mass tourism and rampant development. Many residents have enough Native Hawaiian ancestry (50% or more) to qualify for a Hawaiian Home Lands kuleana. I have linked a short film made on Molokai below.
hawaii is part of the US and anyone from the US is free to live in a state they want, so no, there is no part that is "reserved" for "natives". I just returned from 2 weeks on Oahu and although no one can deny that it is very built up and commercialized, it is still a beautiful place, as are all the islands. I prefer to enjoy what is left of the beauty and ignore, to the best of my ability, the huge hotels, the traffic, the Walmarts, etc.