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Throughout the 19th century, those settlers and their descendants accumulated more influence, land, and wealth— growing rich off sugar plantations.

Native Hawaiians—who call themselves Kanaka Maoli— are the descendants of Polynesian navigators who arrived on the islands more than two thousand years ago.

The brand of Islam that they practice, Shia Islam, one of its core features is veneration of the Prophet Muhammad and the belief that descendants of the Prophet Muhammad have infallible religious authority.