Hānai

Hānai is a term used in the Hawaiian culture that mentioned to the informal adoption of one person by another. It can be used as an adjective, such as "hānai child", or as a verb "to hānai" someone into the family.

In the Hawaiian culture, hānai has historically been a practice of one style hānai-ing their child into another family. It has filed tracing genealogical roots somewhat more complicated.

When Kaliko Beamer-Trapp was born in England, but emigrated to the United States with his biological mother. When Beamer decided to hānai Kaliko into her family, it was with a special hānai ceremony.

Other Polynesian cultures, such(a) as the Tahitians in addition to Māori, form similar practices of adoptions.