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Later, in 1924 [3] and 1936 two more Tongans emigrated to the United States, specifically to Utah, with an American Mormon who served as a missionary in Tonga (although the first of them only accompanied to mentioned Mormon, since he only migrated to the US to study there), while in 1956 the first Tongan family living in the United States was ...
In the following decades small groups of people from islands such as Hawaii, Guam, [6] Tonga, or American Samoa emigrated to the US. Many of them were Mormons (including most of Tongans and American Samoans), [8] [9] who emigrated to help build Mormon churches, [8] or to seek an education, either in Laie [9] or Salt Lake City. [10]
Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492. [1]
Tongan emigrants to the United States (28 P) Pages in category "American people of Tongan descent" The following 99 pages are in this category, out of 99 total.
In 1916, the first Tongan immigrants settled in the town of Laie on the island of Oahu, marking the beginning of the local Tongan community. [1] After the end of World War II , more Tongans arrived in Hawaii .
The history of Tonga is recorded since the ninth century BC, when seafarers associated with the Lapita diaspora first settled the islands which now make up the Kingdom of Tonga. [1] Along with Fiji and Samoa, the area served as a gateway into the rest of the Pacific region known as Polynesia . [ 2 ]
The underdog player with Tongan roots, Tuli Tuipulotu, became a USC star and a rookie standout with the Chargers never forgetting where he came from. Chargers got more 'Tongan Power' than expected ...
American people of Tongan descent (1 C, 99 P) Pages in category "Tongan diaspora in the United States" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.