1, Polynesian: the ethnic group of Polynesian islands in eastern Oceania.

2. There are more than 65,438+00 branches, including Maori, Samoan, Tonga, Tuvalu, Hawaiian, Tahiti, Tokelau, Cook Islands, wallis islands, Niue and Easter Island. It belongs to a mixture of southern Mongolian and Australian races.

3. They use many languages and dialects, with little difference between them, belonging to the Polynesian language family of Austronesian language family. They used to worship polytheism and witchcraft, but now they convert to Christianity and Catholicism.

The ancestors of Polynesians migrated from Southeast Asia about 2500 years ago. /kloc-when the European colonists invaded at the end of 0/8, the society was in different stages of the disintegration of the original commune system. The economy and culture have reached a high level and are in a leading position in Oceania. Over the past 200 years, due to the colonial rule of the United States, Britain and France, the traditional economy and culture have been destroyed, enslaved and destroyed, and the total population has dropped sharply.