Hawaiian Locations
Hawaiian for "Merry Christmas"
What is Mele Kalikimaka?
Flowers like plumeria are often threaded together to make this traditional decoration
What is a lei?
On this "day that will live in infamy" Imperialist Japan launched a surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor
What is December 7th, 1941?
A family feast often with traditional Hawaiian food, singing, and dancing.
What is a luau?
A tree often decorated in Hawaii instead of a pine
What is a palm tree?
A famous song written by Queen Lili’uokalani
What is Aloha 'Oe?
Many Hawaiian watch parades of these decorated transports go by during the Christmas season.
What are trucks and cars?
These birds are frequently found wild in Hawaii, though were originally domesticated animals brought by the first settlers
What are chickens?
type of government Hawaii had before yielding to the American government
What is a monarchy?
This favorite Christmas-time meal in Hawaii is traditionally prepared in a underground oven and wrapped in banana leaves
What is Kalua Pork?
Hawaii's state fish
What is humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa
(reef triggerfish)?
the 2 active volcanoes on the big island
What are Kiluaea and Mauna Loa?
This is used to deliver Christmas trees to Hawaii
What is refrigerated containers on a ship?
Hawaii's many unique spices with very few predators led to this once human contact began
What is extinction?