The Indigenous people of Oceania are Aboriginal Australians, Papuans, and Austronesians. These indigenous peoples have a historical continuity with pre-colonial societies that developed on their terri
Moai in Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui
Māori child learning the haka in a painting by Gottfried Lindauer
Dani people from the Baliem Valley in Highland Papua, Indonesia
Thomas Baines with Aborigines near the mouth of the Victoria River
Native Hawaiians
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Native Hawaiians are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands.
Indigenous peoples of Oceania
…under external administration; examples include the Chamorros of Guam and the Northern Marianas, and the Marshallese of the Marshall Islands, and the Native Hawaiians of Hawaii. In the pre-Columbian era, humans never reached the handful of oceanic eastern Pacific islands beyond Easter Island, which itself was settled…
Native Hawaiians performing a hula (2005)
King Kamehameha II
Hawaiian man with his two children, c. 1890
A depiction of a royal heiau (Hawaiian temple) at Kealakekua Bay, c. 1816