According to native oral legends Fijians were also descendants of a nomadic tribe from Tanganika ( Tanzania ).

Intimate sociocultural and genetic ties were maintained between the eastern Lapita colonies and the archaeological record supports oral tradition and native genealogies that indicate inter-island voyaging and intermarriage between prehistoric Samoans, Fijians, and Tongans.

Indigenous Fijians, the native inhabitants of Fiji, are a mixture of Polynesian and Melanesian, resulting from the original migrations to the South Pacific many centuries ago.

200 native Fijians were recruited and organised by 44 New Zealanders.

* Fiji: In a reverse that proves the rule of land reform to benefit the native and indigenous people, the land in Fiji has always been owned by native Fijians, but much of it has been leased long-term to immigrant Indians.

As these leases have reached their end-of-term native Fijians increasingly have refused to renew leases and have expelled the Indians.

The British government, however, had a policy of refusing enlistment to Fijians, a policy rationalised by a wish to avoid exploiting the native people.

There were demonstrations by ethnic Fijians and calls to not renew native land leases and extreme elements called for Indians to be deported from Fiji.

* Fiji Hindi, derived form of Awadhi, Bhojpuri and including many English and native Fijian words, is spoken by Fijians of Indian descent.

Organized at a cost of US $ 410, 000 by a multiracial national committee chaired by the Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, Fiji Week was intended to foster reconciliation among Fiji's diverse ethnic communities, especially native Fijians and Indo-Fijians, whose mutual rivalry for political power has dominated Fijian politics for the last generation, and whose relationship has been especially strained since the overthrow of the Indo-Fijian-led government of Mahendra Chaudhry by ethnic Fijian nationalists in the Fiji coup of 2000.

Daniel Fatiaki is a Roman Catholic and a native of Rotuma, a Fijian Dependency which enjoys a measure of autonomy but is otherwise integrated into Fiji politically and economically despite its cultural divergence ( Rotumans are Polynesian, unlike ethnic Fijians, who are predominantly of Melanesian stock ).

Although the Legislative Council still had few of the powers of the modern Parliament, it brought native Fijians and Indo-Fijians into the official political structure for the first time, and fostered the beginning of a modern political culture in Fiji.

On 23 May, Meli Bogileka, general secretary of the People's National Party and a former minister in the Chaudhry government ( 1999-2000 ) said that Ratu Sukuna's achievements had been overstated, and overlooked the way his policies had confined native Fijians to pocket settlements and villages which, Bogileka considered, had impeded their progress.

Approximately two-thirds of the world's native speakers of English live in the United States.

A majority of Alaska's native populations live in the Bush, where they make their living in similar fashion to their ancestors.

Non-native speakers of Hausa number around 25 million, and in some areas live close to native Hausa. Hausa has replaced many other languages especially in the North Central and North Eastern part of Nigeria, and continue gaining popularity in other parts of Africa as a result of Hausa movies and musics which spread out throughout the region.

Adding to the absurdity of it all is the fact that most parrots live in tropical climates, and none are native to Norway.

By the year 3000, Mars has been completely terraformed to make it habitable for humans-the native Martian aliens are forced to live in specially designated areas, in a parody of the treatment of Native Americans.

It starred Dustin Hoffman as David Sumner, a timid American mathematician ( his wife at one point attempts to erase Einstein's field equations from his blackboard ) who leaves the chaos of college anti-war protests to live with his young wife Amy ( Susan George ) in her native village in Cornwall, England.

Wolverine on rocky terrain Wolverines live primarily in isolated northern areas, for example the arctic and alpine regions of northern Canada, Alaska, Siberia, and Scandinavia ; they are also native to European Russia, the Baltic countries, the Russian Far East, Northeast China and Mongolia.

The native Kutzadika ' a people derived nutrition from the larvae of the alkaline flies that live in the lake.

After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson and his successors viewed much of the land west of the Mississippi River as a place to resettle the native Americans, so that white settlers would be free to live in the lands east of the river.

It has three main languages, though Javanese is dominant, and it is the native language of about 60 million people in Indonesia, most of whom live on Java.

In the town of Nibutani ( part of Biratori, Hokkaidō ) where many of the remaining native speakers live, there are 100 speakers, out of which only 15 used the language every day in the late 1980s.

" CROATOAN " was the name of an island to the south ( modern-day Hatteras Island ), where a native tribe friendly to the English was known to live.

There is also a population of native Orang Asli who live in the area, although most have been relocated from the forests to other areas.

The trading post system used by the French and then the English encouraged native people to live in central villages along major waterways.

There are also several hundred native speakers who live not only in Queens, New York ( as is mistakenly believed by newcomers to the study of the language ), but throughout the five boroughs of New York City, as well as in upstate New York and the neighboring states of New Jersey and Connecticut ; there are also still native speakers in California.

Arroyo Grande is located in a coastal ecosystem within the California floristic province, and the native habitats include coast live oak woodland, central coastal scrub, willow and mixed riparian along Arroyo Grande Creek and numerous tributaries, native bunch-grass grassland, coastal prairie, dunes and intertidal zone, and non-native and agricultural areas.

In immigrant families where the first generation speaks primarily in their native tongue, the second generation primarily in the language of the country in which they now live while still retaining fluency in their parent ’ s dominant language, and the third generation primarily in the language of the country they were born in while retaining little to no conversational language in their grandparent ’ s native tongue, the second generation family members serve as interpreters not only to outside persons, but within the household, further propelling generational differences and divisions by means of linguistic communication.

Philip was culturally Spanish: he was born in Valladolid and raised in the Spanish court, his native tongue was Spanish, and he preferred to live in Spain.

However, because of overgrazing, land clearing, and the suppression of wildfires, these native grasses have been mostly replaced by invasive weeds and tough, woody trees, including: Texas live oak, Texas red oak, red juniper ( red cedar ), and mesquite.

Other children did not speak their native languages, or did not know how to live outside the camel farms.

The Golgafrincham arrival spurs the extinction of the native " cavemen " ( although, as Ford Prefect pointed out, they did not live in caves, to which a witty repartee was that they ' might have been getting their caves redecorated '), resulting in the human race's eventual replacement by a shipload of middle managers, telephone sanitisers and hairdressers.

They reproduce slowly either by bulb division or seeds and have gradually naturalized from plantings in urban and suburban areas throughout the lower elevations and coastal areas in much of the West Coast of the USA since these environments mimic their native South African habitat.

Born in 1855, Dr Leonard Cockayne ( generally recognised as the greatest botanist who has lived, worked, and died in New Zealand ) worked extensively on native plants throughout New Zealand and wrote many notable botanical texts.

The arctic fox ( Vulpes lagopus, formerly known as Alopex lagopus ), also known as the white fox, polar fox or snow fox, is a small fox native to Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and is common throughout the Arctic tundra biome.

In his native France and throughout the world, Max Linder was a major comic feature and might qualify as the first true film star.

The cane toad ( Bufo marinus ), also known as the giant neotropical toad or marine toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad which is native to Central and South America, but has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania and the Caribbean.

In tropical regions, such as their native habitats, breeding occurs throughout the year, but in subtropical areas, breeding occurs only during warmer periods that coincide with the onset of the wet season.

Whereas his references to Judah are of a general kind, Ephraim or Samaria being sometimes mentioned in the same connection or more frequently alone, the situation implied throughout and the whole tone of the addresses agree with what we know of the Northern Kingdom at the time, and his references to places and events in that kingdom are so numerous and minute as to lead to the conclusion that he not only prophesied there, but that he was a native of that part of the country.

Having converted to Roman Catholicism early in life and returned to the austere Calvinism of his native Geneva as part of his period of moral reform, Rousseau maintained a profession of that religious philosophy and of John Calvin as a modern lawgiver throughout the remainder of his life.

Plan 9 has novel features such as the 9P protocol for accessing local and remote resources as files, union mounts, an improved proc file system, and native unicode support throughout the system.

RP is defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary as " the standard accent of English as spoken in the south of England ", although some have argued that it can be heard from native speakers throughout England and Wales.

More generally, the arbitrary lumping together of disparate native peoples into geographical units decided on by the colonial powers has been an ongoing source of trouble throughout Africa.

Although it is native to Mexico, it is now widely grown throughout the tropics.

Trading centres populated predominantly by Chinese men and their native spouses long existed throughout Southeast Asia.

He directly inferred that if the process of charring could be stopped at the right point, it might divest the gum of its native adhesiveness throughout, which would make it better than the native gum.

Pines are native to most of the Northern Hemisphere, and have been introduced throughout most temperate and subtropical regions of the world, where they are grown as timber and cultivated as ornamental plants in parks and gardens.

Black bass of all species are highly sought-after game fish, and bass fishing is an extremely popular sport throughout the bass's native range.

The genus is found throughout the temperate to tropical regions of the world, with the greatest species diversity in subtropical and tropical regions ; the genus becomes rare in cool temperate climates, with only four species native to northern Europe.

The native range of the wild cherry extends through most of Europe, western Asia and parts of northern Africa, and the fruit has been consumed throughout its range since prehistoric times.

This species is native to Brazil but spread throughout the Americas.

Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending into the semi-warm temperate zone.

It receives a number of tributaries, sends off several offshoots, and is navigable throughout the year by the native cargo boats that are often of considerable size.

He states the mbira " a finger xylophone, is native to Africa and is common throughout the continent.