In Polynesian culture, mana is a spiritual quality considered to have supernatural origin — a sacred impersonal force existing in the universe.

Niue's remoteness, as well as cultural and linguistic differences between its Polynesian inhabitants and those of the Cook Islands, caused it to be separately administered.

Of its 552, 438 persons, 94. 5 % are Melanesian, 3 % Polynesian, and 1. 2 % Micronesian.

In Peru, the Quechua name for a type of sweet potato is kumar, strikingly similar to the Polynesian name kumara and its regional Oceanic cognates (" kumala ," " umala ," " ' uala ," etc .).

The best known of Chile's Pacific Islands is Easter Island ( Isla de Pascua, also known by its Polynesian name of Rapa Nui ), with a population of 2, 800 people.

The Polynesian term kākā and its variant ʻāʻā were the generic South Pacific terms for Psittacidae.

It is considered a variant of a more general Polynesian mythology, developing its own unique character for several centuries before about 1800.

The following year the National League of Cities bestowed its James C. Howland Award for community enrichment on New Brighton for its groundbreaking community policing partnership, which substantially reduced crime at the Polynesian Village apartment complex.

The contemporary classification of the Polynesian languages began with certain observations by Andrew Pawley in 1966 based on shared innovations in phonology, vocabulary and grammar showing that the East Polynesian languages were more closely related to Samoan than they were to Tongan, calling Tongan and its nearby relative Niuean " Tongic " and Samoan and all other Polynesian languages of the study " Nuclear Polynesian ".

Despite the relative low number of Polynesian languages, and the relative abundance of data already available on many of them, the comparative method was often reduced to comparisons of vocabulary, its shared sporadic sound changes and, as Wilson did in 1985, comparison of pronominal systems which is perhaps the second most commonly described aspect of " minor " languages often available for comparison after the lexicostatistical lists.

Over the ensuing centuries of Māori expansion and settlement, Māori culture diverged from its Polynesian roots.

Aotearoa ( New Zealand ) is the southwestern apex of the Polynesian Triangle, a region of the Pacific Ocean with three island groups at its corners:

It is likely that on arrival in New Zealand, L. scoparium became established in limited edaphically suitable areas until the arrival of Polynesian man, whose fire and forest-clearing brought about the low-nutrient-status soils for which it was preadapted in its homeland.

Tubuai ( Polynesian: Tupua ' i ) is the name of a group of islands and also the name of its main island, being part of the Austral Islands, French Polynesia, in the Pacific Ocean.

With the postponement and then cancellation of the Melanesian Cup, and a similar fate befalling its Polynesian equivalent, the format of the tournament changed in 2002.

In its resolution n ° 5195, the Academy of the Polynesian languages Pa ' umotu specified a definition more faithful to the primal Polynesian language Mamaka Kaïo of origin, that of " free man ".

As the Internet gained its ground to communicate over vast distances, the meme of the contemporary urban tribal fire dancing culture spread from its Polynesian, Thai, and Australian influences to the contemporary electronic music scenes of the world.

Red was the prized color of Polynesian aristocracy and while birds with red plumage ( such as the Red-tailed Tropicbird, some Hawaiian honeycreepers like the ' i ' iwi ' and Maroon Shining Parrot ) were highly prized, the swamphen was unique in deriving its prestige not from plumage but from its reddish face, beak, and legs.

The economy of American Samoa is a traditional Polynesian economy in which more than 90 % of the land is communally owned.

Each of these is subdivided in a manner reminiscent of Dante's Divine Comedy, but the number of divisions and their names differs from one Polynesian culture to another.

Hawaiian history is inextricably tied into a larger Polynesian phenomenon.

Hawaii is the apex of the Polynesian Triangle, a region of the Pacific Ocean anchored by three island groups: Hawaii, Rapa Nui ( Easter Island ), and Aotearoa ( New Zealand ).

Origin of the word is Polynesian.

The land area is with about 1, 400 people who are predominantly Polynesian.

" Future Together " is a party of mostly Caucasian and Polynesian New Caledonians opposed to independence but tired of the hegemonic and allegedly corrupt anti-independence RPCR.

* 1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands.

Typee ( 1846 ; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life ) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva ( which Melville spelled as Nukuheva ) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842.

Hawaiian, and the Polynesian languages generally, have unusually large numbers of such words, such as aeāea ( a small green fish ), which is three syllables: ae. āe. a.

Most long words involve reduplication, which is quite productive in Polynesian: ioio ' grooves ', eaea ' breath ', uaua ' tough ' ( all four syllables ), auēuē ' crying ' ( five syllables, from uē ( uwē ) ' to weep '), uoa or uouoa ' false mullet ' ( sp.

This is nearly universal in Dravidian languages and Australian languages, but is widely found elsewhere, for example in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Finnish, and the Polynesian languages.

There are controversial indications, though, of some sort of South American / Polynesian contact, most notably in the fact that the South American sweet potato is served as a dietary staple throughout much of Polynesia.

However, recent scientific investigation that compares the DNA of some of the Polynesian islands with natives from Peru suggests that there is some merit to Heyerdahl's ideas and that while Polynesia was colonized from Asia, some contact with South America also existed.

In the Hawaiian Islands, the coconut is regarded as a Polynesian introduction, first brought to the islands by early Polynesian voyagers from their homelands in Oceania.

The pattern of settlement that is believed to have occurred is that the Polynesians spread out from the Samoan Islands into the Tuvaluan atolls, with Tuvalu providing a stepping stone to migration into the Polynesian outlier communities in Melanesia and Micronesia.

Tuvalu is on the western boundary of the Polynesian Triangle so that the northern islands of Tuvalu, particularly Nui have links to Micronesians from Kiribati.

Tuvalu is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia.

The population is around 38, 000 ; predominately Melanesian, with small Polynesian, Asian, Australian and European populations, mainly French and British.

The Cook Islands were first settled around 600 AD by Polynesian people who migrated from nearby Tahiti to the southeast.

Polynesian kite traditions are used by anthropologists get an idea of early " primitive " Asian traditions that are believed to have at one time existed in Asia.

Other Polynesian peoples see them being supported by gods ( as in Hawai ' i ).

Around 1500 BC Fiji was settled by Polynesian seafarers.

Whale's last professional engagement was directing Pagan in the Parlour, a farce about two New England spinster sisters who are visited by a Polynesian whom their father, when shipwrecked years earlier, had married.

The initial Micronesian population, which remains the overwhelming majority today, was visited by Polynesian and Melanesian invaders before the first European sailors discovered the islands in the 16th century.

Subsequent invasions by Samoans and Tongans introduced Polynesian elements to the previously installed Micronesian culture and invasions by Fijians introduced Melanesian elements, but extensive intermarriage produced a population reasonably homogeneous in appearance, language and traditions.

In 1924, the Malden ruins were examined by an archaeologist from the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Kenneth Emory, who concluded that they were the creation of a small Polynesian population which had resided there for perhaps several generations some centuries earlier.

Cook made three attempts to land on the island but was refused permission to do so by the Polynesian inhabitants.

Initially inhabited by Micronesian and Polynesian peoples, Nauru was annexed by Germany in the late 19th century, and extraction of the island's phosphate began in 1906.

Nauru was first settled by Micronesian and Polynesian peoples at least 3, 000 years ago.

Niue was first settled by Polynesian sailors from Tonga around 900 AD.

The history of Norfolk Island dates back to the fourteenth or fifteenth century when it was settled by Polynesian seafarers.

Norfolk Island was first settled by East Polynesian seafarers either from the Kermadec Islands north of New Zealand or from the North Island of New Zealand.

The harakeke ( Phormium tenax ), or New Zealand Flax plant, was brought to Norfolk Island either from New Zealand directly or from Raoul Island ( Sunday Island ) by these Polynesian settlers.

At the same time, he privately studied Polynesian culture and history, consulting what was then the world's largest private collection of books and papers on Polynesia, owned by Bjarne Kropelien, a wealthy wine merchant in Oslo.

The trees were propagated far outside their native range by Polynesian voyagers who transported root cuttings and air-layered plants over long ocean distances.