Are native Hawaiians Native Americans?

Answer:
no, because Hawaii is an island geographically un connected to America, and only became an American state in 1959. Historians and archaeologists reckon that it became inhabited by settlers from Polynesia, so native Hawaiians are in no way Americans other than politically
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