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It is unknown when this name was changed to reflect the current name. It is thought that the Cook Islands were settled in two periods: the Tahitian Period, when the country was settled between 900 and 1300 AD, and the Maui Settlement, which occurred in 1600 AD, when a large contingent from Tahiti settled in Rarotonga, in the Takitumu district.
Unlike the Pacific Coast where 100,000 ethnic Japanese-American citizens were interned, the Japanese-American population in Hawaii avoided internment, although hundreds of pro-Japan leaders were arrested. [187] Pearl Harbor was the U.S.' main forward base for the Pacific War.
1785 etching of Waimea, Kauai at the time of Cook's journey. There is no definitive date for the Polynesian discovery of Hawaii.However, high-precision radiocarbon dating in Hawaii using chronometric hygiene analysis, and taxonomic identification selection of samples, puts the initial such settlement of the Hawaiian Islands sometime between 940–1250 C.E., [2] originating from earlier ...
Kingdoms of Hawaii and Tahiti that were supposed to confederate The Polynesian Confederation was a hypothetical confederation planned mainly by the king of Hawaii Kalākaua . The aim was to protect the Polynesian peoples from European and American imperialism since when the United Kingdom took over Fiji, there were only three independent ...
The islanders were completely converted to Christianity by the end of the 19th century. Colonization took place thereafter and the island was declared as a part of the British Empire. The island country became independent in 1974 but still have a free association agreement with New Zealand and many of its citizens have become citizens of New ...
In 2010, a study was published based on radiocarbon dating of more reliable samples which suggests that the islands were settled much later, within a short timeframe, in about 1219 to 1266. [ 2 ] The islands in Eastern Polynesia have been characterized by the continuities among their cultures, and the short migration period would be an ...
Settled c. 1826 by Alexander Hare and in 1827 by John Clunies-Ross. [127] Pacific Ocean: Bonin Islands: 1830: Port Lloyd, Chichi-jima: Some evidence of early settlement from the Marianas, but the islands were abandoned except for occasional shipwrecks until a group of Europeans, Polynesians, and Micronesians settled Chichi-jima in 1830. [128]
Between 1800s and 1860s, Pacific Islander sailors arrived in the United States. Some of them were Tahitians, who settled in Massachusetts and later California. In 1889, the first Polynesian Mormon colony was founded in Utah and consisted of Tahitians, Native Hawaiians, Samoans, and Māori people. [3]