The indigenous Melanesian people of New Caledonia, with chiefly traditions rooted in the Lapita-era settlement of the archipelago; their traditional polity system of clans and paramount chiefs persists alongside the French overseas collectivity.
Scholarly history of Kanak identity and the rise of nationalism in New Caledonia.
Era/regional sweep of pre-contact Pacific archaeology (Sahul, Old Melanesia, Lapita) that frames the deep ancestral polity system of the Kanak before European arrival.
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