(In Polynesian mythology, Hawaiki is the original homeland of all Polynesian people and in Māori culture, it is also the place where the soul of the deceased returns.) Ra'iātea, which in Tahitian ...

When the Southeast Asian sailors started out on their odyssey they were not yet identifiably Polynesian. Only after many years of learning how to voyage long distances, and to survive on the high ...

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President Joe Biden has managed this national divide by marking both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day in separate ...

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In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map ...

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Native American Indians are committed to making Indigenous Peoples Day a national holiday in 2024.

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