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Some Māori are Mormons and are drawn to Mormon regions of Hawaii and Utah, as well as in California, Arizona and Nevada. [2] Māori were part of the first Mormon Polynesian colony of the US, which was founded in Utah in 1889.
The Chamorro people (/ tʃ ɑː ˈ m ɔːr oʊ, tʃ ə-/; [4] [5] also CHamoru [6]) are the Indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, politically divided between the United States territory of Guam and the encompassing Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Micronesia, a commonwealth of the US.
The modern stream of New Zealanders immigrating to America came after World War II as a significant portion (although not the majority) of these immigrants were war brides, because they had married U.S. servicemen who were stationed in the Pacific theater during the war. Since the 1940s, the majority of New Zealanders who have settled in the ...
[194] [195] However, Māori have a wide range of life expectancies across regions: Māori living in the Marlborough region have the highest life expectancy at 79.9 years for males and 83.4 years for females, while Māori living in the Gisborne region have the lowest life expectancy at 71.2 years for males and 75.2 years for females. [195]
About 2,000 U.S. citizens live in Papua New Guinea, with major concentrations at the headquarters of New Tribes Mission (a missionary organization), and the Summer Institute of Linguistics, both located in the Eastern Highlands Province. In May 2023, a defense agreement was announced between the two countries.
The English and Maori versions of the treaty contain key differences, complicating its application and interpretation, some observers say. To address this, over the last 50 years, lawmakers ...
In Polynesian Folklore, Hawaiki (also rendered as ʻAvaiki in Cook Islands, Hawaiki in Māori, Savaiʻi in Samoan, Havaiʻi in Tahitian, Hawaiʻi in Hawaiian) is the original home of the Polynesians, before dispersal across Polynesia. [1]
Plans by New Zealand's conservative government to roll back Maori rights reforms have revived race as a hot political issue in the Pacific nation, which was previously lauded globally for its ...