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Mafana Hoodie Blanket for the Pacific Diaspora
Sunday fills you up. By Wednesday you are running on empty. What mafana means, and the hoodie built for the...
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Why We Include the Bougainville Flag
Bougainville lost up to a tenth of its people in a war most outsiders never heard about, then voted 98%...
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One Family. Many Islands. More Than a Slogan
One Family. Many Islands. was never a marketing line. Susan's story: growing up Tongan in Australia, learning Cook Islands dance,...
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Why We Still Say Polynesian, Micronesian & Melanesian
Polynesia means many islands. Micronesia means small islands. Melanesia comes from the Greek for black. Where the three names came...
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Nobody Is Coming To Build It For Us
Pacific culture is on runways and in stadiums. But visibility is not ownership. Why NK was built small and owned,...
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What Polynesian Flags Really Mean
Most people see a flag and see a nation. Look closer and you see the meaning behind five Polynesian flags:...
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The Lapita: 3,500 Years Before Anyone Called It Oceania
Around 3,500 years ago people left the Bismarcks in boats with no instruments and no map, and reached Tonga within...
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What the Marshall Islands Paid
Sixty-seven nuclear weapons between 1946 and 1958. A tribunal awarded over two billion dollars. The United States paid 150 million...
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The Sea of Red
Twice as many Tongans live overseas as at home. So when the team plays, the crowd is Auckland and Sydney...
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