Kanaka Explained

Kanaka may refer to:

People

• Kanaka (given name), an Indian name (including a list of persons with the name)
  • Kanaka (actress), Indian film actress
• Kanaka (Pacific Island worker), workers from Pacific Islands employed in British colonies and in North American fur trade and goldfields
• Kānaka Maoli, the traditional name native of the Hawaiian people

Places

• Kanaka Bar, British Columbia, an unincorporated area in the Fraser Canyon of British Columbia
• Kanaka Creek, British Columbia, a historical settlement and modern neighbourhood in the District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
• Kanaka Creek Regional Park, a regional park run by the Greater Vancouver Regional District, in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada

Other uses

• Kanaka pigeon, an extinct bird of New Caledonia and Tonga
• Kanaka, the Sanskrit name for a species of Datura
• Kanaka (film), a 2018 Indian romantic action film
• Kanaka Bar First Nation, the Nlaka'pamux First Nations government at the Kanaka Bar, British Columbia
• Kanaka Shree, an award instituted by the government of Karnataka, India

See also

• Kanak (disambiguation)
• Kanake, a racial epithet in the German language, derived from the Melanesian term