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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 ...
Pages in category "American people of Tongan descent" The following 99 pages are in this category, out of 99 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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.
This page lists people of Tonga who reside or have resided in the United States. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. A.
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]
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Though many Americans think of a vacation in a tropical paradise when imagining Hawaii, how the 50th state came to be a part of the U.S. is actually a much darker story, generations in the making.
Apart from Norse contact and settlement, whether transoceanic travel occurred during the historic period, resulting in pre-Columbian contact between the settled American peoples and voyagers from other continents, is vigorously debated. Only a few cases of pre-Columbian contact are widely accepted by mainstream scientists and scholars.