China extends reach in South Pacific with Cook Islands deal
No details have been released, but analysts and environmentalists fear it will pave the way for closer security ties and the ...
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Author to speak on the enigma of the original settlers of Polynesia
The Warner Free Lecture will be in Volunteers Hall Friday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. with Christina Thompson, who will talk about ...
Pacific Daily News1d
Moylan renews call for United to allow civilians traveling with their pets to and from Guam
In a Jan. 15 letter to United Airlines chief executive officer president John Scott Kirby, Moylan also asked the airline once again to reinstate the repatriation of Guam’s native birds facing ...
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Over half of Pacific atoll forests are coconut palm plantations — Study
By Kristine Sabillo More than half of the tree cover in Pacific atolls is largely composed of “abandoned and overgrown” colonial-era coconut palm plantations, reveal satellite images in a study ...
Racism Is Common In Hawaiʻi Schools — And Often Goes Unaddressed
Nearly half of white high school students and more than half of Black students in the state said they'd experienced racism in ...
Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement appoints new COO
Kauʻilani Arce has been appointed as the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement's new chief operating officer, the nonprofit ...
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Stories Rooted in Nature: Flower and butterfly Valentine’s cards for the heart
Valentine’s Day is a celebration of love. Flowers have long been symbolic of that special connection between people.
Alaska Public Media10d
The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets
He’s made a career chasing the bounty of the North Pacific, building up a storehouse of ... Fairbanks anthropologist whose ...
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Indigenous knowledge helps explain bird population changes in Canada’s BC
By Jane Palmer In the summer of 1948, naturalist Charles J. Guiguet spent four months on the Goose Island Archipelago, a ...
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U.S. Mint's new $1 coin features Native Hawaiian scholar Mary Kawena Pukui
A new $1 coin will feature a Native Hawaiian scholar that many credit with preserving ... Born in 1895 on Hawai‘i Island, she went on to work at establishments such as Kamehameha Schools, Punahou ...
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“You Can Feel That the Land is in Pain”
Since the United States seized control of Guam during World War II, the US military has slowly turned the Pacific island into a military garrison, destroying cultural sites, food sources, and, ...
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Almost a third of native species will be 'highly vulnerable' to climate change in 2050
Many native species face being squeezed out of their habitats with ... a species with only around 300 remaining in one small strip of vegetation on the South Island's west coast. The skink was wedged ...