Frank Tusieseina started PolyStrong in 2018 to help Pacific Islander kids see that the world ‘truly is their oyster.’ ...

Those that Credit: public domain The Polynesian people, inhabiting the islands in the Pacific Ocean, embarked on epic voyages across vast distances well before the advent of modern navigation tools.

These linguistic links point to a genealogical bond that ties the people of the Pacific to one another. Indeed, in 1994, DNA from 12 Easter Island skeletons was found to be Polynesian. According ...

The islands scattered along the north shore of New Guinea first drew these canoe people eastwards into the ... to hundreds of miles along the way to Polynesia, and then to thousands of miles ...