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Before the Mahele, who owned the Hawaiian land? Kings No one - the gods allowed Hawaiians to work on the land Hawaiians Missionaries Everyone had a percentage of the land

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The land belonged to the gods, the people on the land were there to just occupy it and live off of their understanding of the gods, many offering sites were built in ancient hawaiʻi, when the white man came to hawaiʻi, hawaiians could no longer worship their gods and now worshipped under one god which was the christian god. Given the explanation, the hawaiian lands were the gods lands that nā kanaka had just occupied and lived off of.

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