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THESE ARE NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLE THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE EUROPEAN IN AMERICA, AND COME KILLING PEOPLE.
Who first settled Polynesia?
How did humans first get to Polynesia?
Early farmers rode 'express train' to remote Pacific Islands Based on dating of Lapita sites, he proposed that they moved rapidly from mainland China to Taiwan and the Philippines, then out across the open ocean from Vanuatu to Samoa, covering 24,300 kilometers in about 300 years.Oct 3, 2016
The accepted wisdom was that the Polynesian settlers of the Chatham Islands, who arrived hundreds of years before Māori, were wiped out by invading Māori tribes, who killed and enslaved their population after landing on the islands in 1835.
This was different from the customary form of slavery practised on mainland New Zealand. A total of 1,561 Moriori died between the invasion in 1835 and the release of Moriori from slavery in 1863, and in 1862 only 101 Moriori remained. Causes of death include murder but also introduced Western diseases.
Do Polynesians have Native American DNA?
Polynesian voyagers frequently traveled between islands and could have journeyed to South America and back, perhaps multiple times, Fox says. "In the process, these Polynesians bring back the sweet potato, and they also bring back a small fragment of Native American DNA" from relationships on the Mainland.