Bo Jacobs · @bojacobs
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"Geochemical analyses of stone artifacts reveal long-distance voyaging among Pacific Islands during the last millennium"

phys.org/news/2023-04-geochemi

#pacific #oceania #Polynesia #Melanesia #canoe #Micronesia

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kilombavita · @kilombavita
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archive.org/details/for-kanak-

For Kanak independence: The fight against French rule in New Caledonia by Susanna Ounei

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"Since 1984, the struggle of the Kanak people against French colonial rule in New Caledonia has consistently attracted world headlines. It has become a symbol of the new awakening of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific against more than 100 years of imperialist domination.

In the English-speaking Pacific and beyond, however, very little is known of the history of the Kanak anti-colonial struggle or the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), which is leading the independence fight today.

In this pamphlet, Susanna Ounei, the official representative in New Zealand of the FLNKS who has been active in the national liberation struggle since 1969, backgrounds the situation in New Caledonia today and outlines the goals of the FLNKS. Also included is the founding charter of the FLNKS."

#kanaky #anticolonialism #antiimperialism #frenchimperialism #frenchcolonialism #Melanesia #SelfDetermination #independence #kanakpeople #flnks #frontdeliberationnationalekanaketsocialiste #antiblackness #nationalliberation #kanaksocialistnationalliberationfront

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Tuomas Tammisto · @tutam
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Vale Rabbie Namaliu (1947–2023), the fourth Prime Minister of and one of the intellectuals who led the country to its independence in 1975.

Namaliu was among the first students of the University of Papua New Guinea. He was born and grew up in East New Britain and he was the MP of Kokopo District (the capital of ENBP) for five consecutive terms between 1982–2007.

asiapacificreport.nz/2023/04/0

#Melanesia #eastnewbritainprovince #eastnewbritain #politics #history #papuanewguinea

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kilombavita · @kilombavita
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Yali’s Question: Sugar, Culture, and History by Frederick Errington; Deborah Gewertz; Anthony T. Carter

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Yali’s Question is the story of a remarkable physical and social creation—Ramu Sugar Limited (RSL), a sugar plantation created in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. As an embodiment of imported industrial production, RSL’s smoke-belching, steam-shrieking factory and vast fields of carefully tended sugar cane contrast sharply with the surrounding grassland. RSL not only dominates the landscape, but also shapes those culturally diverse thousands who left their homes to work there.

#sugarplantation #sugarplantations #history #papuanewguinea #png #plantations #neocolonialism #antiblackness #Melanesia #anthropology #imperialism #migration #emigration #RamuSugarLimited #RSL #RamuSugar #capitalism

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archive.org/details/exile2p

Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900 by Alice Bullard

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According to the poet Victor Hugo, the year 1870/71 was France's année terrible. The country suffered a humiliating defeat by the Prussian military, and Parisians endured a cruel siege. In the wake of the siege, Paris exploded and revolutionaries proclaimed the birth of the Paris Commune.

The conservative government of the young Third Republic portrayed the Communards as savage destroyers of civilization. The Communards were depicted as plagued by original sin, the evil nature of fallen man, and atavistic degeneration.

#kanak #kanaky #genocide #france #frenchrevolution #pariscommune #newcaledonia #colonization #indigenouspeoples #antiblackness #southpacific #exile #whitesupremacy #Melanesia #history #frenchimperialism #frenchcolonialism #thirdrepublic #communards #colonizers #war #paris #savagery #penalcolony #penalcolonies #Melanesians

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kontent kremators · @noyovo
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Welcome to the mayoverse,

Where goes off every month,

But if you hashtag a nation in , the , or twice,

You're a record breaker.

#BandcampFriday #africa #caribbean #Melanesia

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kilombavita · @kilombavita
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sweekitt RSP · @sweekitt
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RT @FreeWestPapua@twitter.com

We are proud to be West Papuan. We will never be Indonesian.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/FreeWestPapua/stat

#freewestpapua #Melanesia

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