Melanesian Tribes

Melanesian people of Solomon Islands

Melanesian people: The world’s only natural black blondes

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For several years, blond hair was attributed to Caucasians but the Melanesians of Solomon Islands are one of the few groups with blonde hair outside Europe. Source: https://www.pulse.ng/lifestyle/ Melanesians are black island people in the south pacific that migrated over thousands of years ago, long before the blacks that came to the Americas as slaves. […]

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A Fijian mountain warrior, photograph by Francis Herbert Dufty, 1870s.

Melanesians

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Melanesians are the dominant inhabitants of Melanesia. Most speak one of the many Papuan languages, though a few groups such as Moluccans, the Motu and Fijianspredominantly speak Austronesian languages. Melanesians occupy islands from Eastern Indonesia to as far east as the islands of Vanuatu and Fiji.[3] Read further on WIKIPEDIA.org here

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Aboriginals Smuggled to Vanuatu

Indigenous descendants from Vanuatu begin family search

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By SBS – May 11, 2018, VanuatuIndependent.com IT’S a little known detail of the so-called ‘blackbirding’ trade: how a group of Aboriginal Australians ended up in Vanuatu, never to return home. Chief Richard David Fandanumata has travelled to Australia from Vanuatu to see the land his great-grandfather came from. He hopes to find his lost relatives with just […]

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