What ethnicity was Lilo?
What ethnicity was Lilo? Lilo is a 6-year-old Hawaiian girl with long, straight black hair and brown eyes.
Are Lilo and Nani Samoan?
While it is the company's first princess of Polynesian descent, it is not the first time Disney has ventured to represent Polynesian culture on-screen: the 2002 film Lilo & Stitch features sisters Lilo and Nani, who are of Indigenous Hawaiian descent as two of the central characters.