The indigenous Austronesian/Melanesian people of the Fiji Islands, descended from Lapita-culture voyagers who settled the archipelago roughly 3,000+ years before present; continuous population and culture (chiefly systems, land tenure, language) through to the present.
Not an ending: the iTaukei remain the indigenous majority of Fiji. The map hands off to the unified Kingdom (1871) and Colony (1874) of Fiji.
General history of Fiji from early settlement through the colonial and independence periods.
Historical anthropology essays including Fiji; situates indigenous Fijian social structure and cosmology within Pacific-wide patterns.