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In the last decade, over 1,900 Tongans have emigrated to the United States due to limited land availability and a scarcity of jobs in their home country. [4] By 1980, 6,200 people of this origin were living in the US, and by in 1990 that number had increased to 17,600. [5] By 2000, there were 31,891 people of Tongan origin living in the United ...
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 .
Nearly 6,000 people of their descendants reside in Pierce County, Washington, making up 0.7% of the county's population. [26] Tacoma is home to 1,800 Samoans, making up nearly one percent of the city's population. [17] The Dalles, Oregon has a Samoan community of nearly 200 Samoan people, making up 1.3% of the city's population. [17]
Map of Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. According to Samoan oral tradition, Tonga was once under the dominion of the Tui Manu'a and paid tribute to the revered paramount chief. [3] In the tenth century this dominance waned and eventually supplanted by the Tuʻi Tonga Empire. While Manu'a under the Tui Manu'a remained independent, the rest of Samoa paid ...
Missouri’s public pensions should pull their money out sooner rather than later. David Mastio, a former editor and columnist for USA Today, is a regional editor for The Center Square and a ...
Samoan American is a subcategory of Polynesian American. About 55,000 people live on American Samoa, while the 2000 and 2008 US censuses have found four times the number of Samoan Americans live in the mainland US. California has the most Samoans; concentrations live in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles County, and San Diego County.
A May 2023 study by University of California, Santa Barbara scientists found that purse seiners based in American Samoa spent just over 4 % of their time over the past five years in the proposed ...
Roughly 1000 to 1500 years after Polynesians used stars to make their way across the ocean and settle on the Hawaiian Islands, British cartographer Captain James Cook landed on the island of Kaua ...