Editing Haole (section)

====Kahiki====
According to Juri Mykkanen of the Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies in his book "Inventing Politics: A New Political Anthropology of the Hawaiian Kingdom", Hawaiians, in trying to understand and make sense of changing alii, projected an entire [[cosmology]] onto everything they did and then passed down this narration to descendants. Under this belief, the origins of the term come from ''Kahiki'', the ancestral lands of Hawaiians, stemming from the mele chant, "Kūkanaloa". In this chant a demi-god/hero from Kahiki is described as ''haole'', as referenced in [[Samuel Kamakau]]'s book ''Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii'' (1991), pages 114-115. As a symbol of origin, Kahiki had great significance to Hawaiians who saw themselves as descendants of a divine haole.<ref name="urlInventing Politics: A New Political Anthropology of the Hawaiian Kingdom - Juri Mykkanen - Google Books">{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=h-tNi3xClv0C&dq=haole+meaning&pg=PA34 | title = Inventing Politics: A New Political Anthropology of the Hawaiian Kingdom - Juri Mykkanen - Google Books | first = Juri | last = Mykkanen | date = 2003| publisher = University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu| page = 34 | quote = | isbn = 9780824814861 | oclc = 473477780 | accessdate = 2022-08-23}}</ref>