In Hawaiian mythology, the Menehune are said to be an ancient race of people small in stature and of very dark skin, who lived in Hawaii before the first settlers arrived from Polynesia.

When the first Polynesian arrived to the Hawaiian shores they found monumental structures –fish ponds, heiau (temples), and dams.

Some scholars have attributed these ancient structures to the Menehune, while others have argued that the legends of the Menehune are a post-European contact mythology and that no such...