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The Rapa Nui (Rapa Nui: [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i], Spanish: [ˈrapa ˈnu.i]) are the indigenous Polynesian peoples of Easter Island.The easternmost Polynesian culture, the descendants of the original people of Easter Island make up about 60% of the current Easter Island population and have a significant portion of their population residing in mainland Chile.
Rapa Nui women (8 P) Rongorongo (1 C, 15 P, 14 F) Pages in category "Rapa Nui people" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
At that time, the Rapa Nui population reached alarming numbers. In a census carried out by the Chilean corvette Abtao in 1892, there were only 101 Rapa Nui alive, of which only 12 were adult men. The Rapa Nui ethnic group, along with their culture, was at its closest point to extinction. [39]
The slogan of the current administration is "Rapa Nui hai mahatu", translated as "Rapa Nui with love". Fishers of Rapa Nui have shown their concern of illegal fishing on the island. "Since the year 2000 we started to lose tuna, which is the basis of the fishing on the island, so then we began to take the fish from the shore to feed our families ...
For the locals, it is a way to draw the line between the Chilean government's policy-making in the island, and the Rapa Nui's ancestral rights on their land. [3] In 2011, the Schiess family, owner of the Hanga Roa Hotel, donated back the land of the hotel to the Rapa Nui, but retained a 30-year management lease of the hotel. [4]
He was instrumental in the preparation of the Indigenous Law 19.253 and its subsequent modification to restore land to the members of the Rapa Nui people. [8] He currently serves as the Secretary of the Court, Notary and Conservator of Real Estate of the Island. [9]
After eating, planting yams, and resting, the seven scouts returned home to tell of the good news. Hotu Matuꞌa took a large crew, his family, and everything they needed to survive in the new land. Then, they rowed a single huge, double-hulled canoe to "The Center of the Earth" [3] and landed at Anakena, Rapa Nui (Easter Island).
Haoa was born on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in 1953. She was the second of the six children of Nicolás Haoa and Rosa Cardinali. Her parents sent her to Chile at the age of 11, and she was educated at the Liceo La Asunción de los Padres Maryknoll in the town of Talcahuanu, in the south of Chile.