A distinct Polynesian people (Marquesan: ʻEnana / ʻEnata) of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, settled by voyagers from West Polynesia and long noted by ethnographers for a remarkably uniform culture, tattoo art, and warrior society across the archipelago's narrow, isolated valleys; a living people from initial settlement through the present.
Not an ending: Marquesans remain the people of the Marquesas. The map hands off to French Polynesia after the 1842 annexation.
The standard scholarly ethnohistory of the Marquesas Islands and their people, built from indigenous and European sources; polity-specific.
Foundational archaeological study of Marquesan prehistory and settlement chronology on Nuku Hiva, directly bearing on when the islands were first peopled.
Regional context: places Marquesan colonization within the wider, contested East Polynesian settlement chronology (used as the standard regional reference across this dataset's other Polynesian entries).