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Oceania is generally considered the least decolonized region in the world. In his 1993 book France and the South Pacific since 1940, Robert Aldrich commented: . With the ending of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands became a 'commonwealth' of the United States, and the new republics of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia signed ...
Reference sources should be cited, particularly if the identification as indigenous may be controversial or contested. This region includes the territories as outlined in the Wikipedia geographical article, Oceania (or the Pacific Ocean), consisting of: the islands of Polynesia, including New Zealand and Hawaii; the islands of Micronesia;
Australian Aborigines: Australian Aboriginal: 108 60.2 6 22.2 0 0.9 0: R=8, F=3 Hudjashov 2007 [1] Australian Aborigines: Australian Aboriginal: 44 __ __ 0 0 0 40.9 R=6.8 others=52.3 Karafet 2015 [2] Arnhem Land peoples Arnhem Land languages: 60 53.3 10 30.0 0 0 0 5.0 Kayser 2002 [3] Western Desert peoples Wati languages: 35 68.7 0 17.1 0 3.0 0 ...
Lists of Indigenous Australians by occupation and/or historical contribution: List of Indigenous Australian historical figures; List of Indigenous Australian musicians; List of Indigenous Australian performing artists; List of Indigenous Australians in politics and public service, education, law and humanities; List of Indigenous Australian ...
First Indigenous Australian woman to be awarded an Order of Australia: Lois (Lowitja) O’Donoghue; 1977. First Indigenous Australian to hold a shadow portfolio in a federal, state or territory parliament: Neville Perkins (Northern Territory). [19] First Indigenous Australian to referee a world title boxing match: Trevor Christian. [83]
South Sea Islanders, formerly referred to as Kanakas, are the Australian descendants of Pacific Islanders from more than 80 islands – including the Oceanian archipelagoes of the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, the Gilbert Islands, and New Ireland – who were kidnapped or recruited between the mid to late 19th century as labourers in the sugarcane fields of Queensland.
The Ellice Islands were administered as British protectorate by a Resident Commissioner from 1892 to 1916 as part of the British Western Pacific Territories (BWPT), and later as part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony from 1916 to 1974. [84] [85] Among the last islands in Oceania to be colonised was Niue (1900).
Indigenous Australians were 1.6 times as likely to abstain completely from alcohol than non-Indigenous people in 2012–3. Foetal alcohol syndrome has been a problem, but the rate of pregnant women drinking had halved between 2008 and 2015 (from 20% to 10%). [314] Petrol sniffing has been a problem among some remote communities. [319]