kanaka

"Who was the call from?"

"I don't know. Sound like a kanaka though.” When Erin frowned, he added, “A Hawaiian, like me.”

There remains one case to be considered, that of the deportation of the Kanakas who were introduced into Queensland for the purpose of work on the sugar plantations.[…]It was, however, felt in the south that a white Australia was essential, and the Commonwealth passed in 1901 an Act (No. 16) which arranged for the deportation of all Kanakas within a few years.