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Apr 29, 2024 · The indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands are traced back to the seafaring Lapita culture, which emerged around 1500 BCE. These Austronesian-speaking peoples are renowned for their remarkable long-distance sea voyages, using sophisticated navigation methods to settle the vast expanse of islands.
Apr 9, 2019 · The Pacific Ocean region includes 27 island nations and territories, each of which has at least one in two indigenous cultural groups. Hundreds of distinct indigenous peoples live in larger islands/island continents, such as New Guinea and Australia.
Local usage in New Zealand uses Pacific Islander (also called Pasifika, or formerly Pacific Polynesians,) to distinguish those who have emigrated from one of these areas in modern times from the New Zealand Māori, who are also Polynesian but are indigenous to New Zealand.
May 4, 2023 · Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Manny Crisostomo has spent decades capturing the life and culture of Indigenous Pacific Islander people. He will serve as keynote speaker at UC San Diego’s upcoming Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month Celebration.
These celebrations showcase the various cultural traditions and diversity of Pacific Island communities in California. They also provide Southern California–based Pacific Islander organizations with opportunities to reach a broader audience.
The PIHF’s region of focus, home to the world’s most diverse range of indigenous cultures, continues to sustain many ancestral ways of life. With a combined population of less than 2.5 million, the Pacific Chapters possess a vast repository of cultural traditions and ecological adaptations.
What makes us Pacific Islanders is our ancestral calling. Our inner knowing that the ocean will call us and will always be our motherland. We are united in our culture, embracing its differences across all of the islands within the Pacific. We are ocean people, no matter how far away we are from it.
