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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.
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 .
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.
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 ...
As female residents of Tonga, women in Tonga had been described in 2000 by the Los Angeles Times as members of Tongan society who traditionally have a "high position in Tongan society" due to the country's partly matriarchal foundation but "can't own land", "subservient" to husbands in terms of "domestic affairs" and "by custom and law, must dress modestly, usually in Mother Hubbard-style ...
In July 2005 he became the first president of the newly-formed Tonga Public Service Association [4] and was a leader of the 2005 Tongan public service strike. [5] [6] He later served as president of the Friendly Islands Teachers Association. [7] [8] Following the 2010 Tongan general election he called for limits on the king's veto powers. [9]
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]