Indigenous peoples of Australia-Oceania

The indigenous peoples and ethnic groups of Australia and Oceania include:

Aboriginal people of Australia and Tasmania

• Aborigines , especially in Queensland and New South Wales (see also Desert Cultural Area , Western Desert Cultural Area )
• Tasmanians on the island of Tasmania (extinct in the 19th century)

Polynesians of the Pacific in Polynesia (see also Pacific Islanders )

• Hawaiians in the Hawaiian Islands
• Māori in New Zealand (see also the extinct Moriori )
• Tongans in the Tonga Islands
• the residents of French Polynesia , Wallis and Futuna , Niue , Tokelau , Samoa , Tuvalu and the Cook Islands

Melanesians in Melanesia

• in New Guinea ( Papua New Guinea and Indonesia )

Abelam  · Arapesh  · Asaro Mudmen  · Dani  · Eipo  · Etoro  · Fore  · Hagahai  · Iatmul  · Kiwai  · Korowai  · Marind-anim  · Maring  · Mimika  · Motu  · Ngaing  · Zambia  · Tami

• in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea

Baining and Tolai on New Britain

• on New Caledonia

Kanak

• on Vanuatu
• in the Solomon Islands
• Fijians (iTaukei) in Fiji
• Torres Strait islanders on the islands of the Torres Strait, which belongs to Australia (see also the languages ​​of the Torres Strait )

Papua in New Guinea ( Papua New Guinea and Indonesia ) and in the Pacific

• Asmat in the Indonesian province of Papua
• Sawi in Western New Guinea, Indonesia

Micronesians in Micronesia

• Chamorro in the Mariana Islands
• Nauruer on the island of Nauru

See also

• Cultural areas of Oceania
• Languages ​​of Papua New Guinea
• Indigenous peoples worldwide
• List of indigenous peoples worldwide