Indigenous Fiji

Itaukei are a nation and ethnic group native to fiji who speak fijian and share a common history and culture.

Indigenous fiji. Fiji fiji people. Smaller minorities including banabans rotumans chinese melanesians and other pacific islanders remain socially and politically marginalized. Happy chicken farm sigatoka fiji. Although the indigenous fijian people are usually classified as ethnically melanesian their social and political organization is closer to that of polynesia and there has been a high level of intermarriage between fijians from the lau group of islands of eastern fiji and the neighbouring polynesian islands of tonga.

Fiji s population was nearly homogeneous and made up almost entirely of native fijians till the 19th century. The promotion of indigenous livestock project pgtf also assisted an indigenous chicken breeding and distribution farm called the happy chickens which is located at the sigatoka valley on viti levu fiji. This slow cook technique produces beautifully tender food with great flavour and a light smokiness. Fiji s society has long been marked by tensions between the majority indigenous fijian population and an indo fijian minority.

The culture of fiji is a tapestry of native fijian indian european chinese and other nationalities culture polity traditions language food costume belief system architecture arts craft music dance and sports will be discussed in this article to give you an indication of fiji s indigenous community but also the various communities which make up fiji as a modern culture and living. The indigenous fijians were of melanesian and polynesian descent and spoke languages belonging to the malayo polynesian family of languages commonly known as the fijian language. Indigenous fijian feasts are cooked in a lovo an underground earth oven heated by hot stones. Fijians or itaukei are the major indigenous people of the fiji islands and live in an area informally called melanesia indigenous fijians are believed to have arrived in fiji from western melanesia approximately 3 500 years ago though the exact origins of the.

Indigenous pig breeds at krs multiplication conservation promotion centre fiji. A warm welcome from locals. Indigenous fijians are descended from the lapita peoples a seafaring group from eastern indonesia or the philippines who probably arrived in the fiji islands during the second millennium b c e. Fiji culture and dance performances.