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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 ...
The Tongva (/ ˈ t ɒ ŋ v ə / TONG-və) are an Indigenous people of California from the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands, an area covering approximately 4,000 square miles (10,000 km 2). [1] [2] In the precolonial era, the people lived in as many as 100 villages and primarily identified by their village rather than by a pan ...
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 .
For decades, the history of Southeast Asian refugees have been sidelined in U.S. history. California's first state-legislated Southeast Asian model curriculum aims to change that.
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.
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 ...
We also had a bunch of Samoans with Darius Muasau, Titus Mokiao-Atimalala, Devin Aupiu, Noah Pulealii, Kaleb Tuliau and Tyler Manoa, who was half-Tongan, half-Samoan.
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]