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Tongan Culture and History. THA Conference 1989. Canberra: Department of Pacific & Asian History, RSPacS, ANU. Bott, Elizabeth (1983). Tongan Society at the Time of Captain Cook's Visits: Discussions with Her Majesty Queen Salote Tupou. Honolulu: Univ Of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-0864-8. OCLC 234297388.
Social history of Tonga (4 C) Human rights in Tonga (2 C, 4 P) L. ... Pages in category "Society of Tonga" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Tongan troops saw battle against the Japanese in the Solomon Islands campaign, including on Guadalcanal. [18] A key advisor of Sālote's, from 1924 to 1946, was Australian missionary Rodger Page, who played a key role in the reunification of the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga, of which she was a member.
Tongans or Tongan people are a Polynesian ethnic group native to Tonga, a Polynesian archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Tongans represent more than 98% of the inhabitants of Tonga. The rest are European (the majority are British ), mixed European, and other Pacific Islanders .
Tongan kava ceremonies are a variety of ceremonies involving the kava plant that play an integral part of Tongan society and governance.They play a role in strengthening cultural values and principles, solidifying traditional ideals of duty and reciprocity, reaffirming societal structures, and entrenching the practice of pukepuke fonua (lit. "tightly holding onto the land"), a Tongan cultural ...
Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai MNZM is a Tongan curator and writer, whose work explores the role of craft in Tongan society.In the 2022 New Year Honours, Māhina-Tuai was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to cultures and the arts.
[4] Siuʻilikutapu later became deputy president of the National Women's Organisation and was president of the Langafonua Gallery and Handicrafts Centre. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 2018 she became patron of the Tonga Health Society Langimalie Clinic and she also served as patron of Tonga's first village council, the Lapaha Council.
Seventh-day Adventists became active in the South Pacific in 1886 when the missionary John Tay visited the Pitcairn Islands.His report caused the Seventh-day Adventist church in the United States to build the Pitcairn mission ship, which made six voyages in the 1890s, bringing missionaries to the Society Islands, Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. [10]