Island has fascinated historians, researchers, and tourists for centuries. Reaching it is not easy; flights from Europe, with ...

Island is a place that has fascinated historians, researchers, and tourists for centuries. Reaching it is not easy. Flights ...

Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen ... fencing them into one small village), the Rapa Nui people were all but destroyed. By 1877 there were only 110 natives left on the ...

Easter Island, or its Polynesian name of Rapa Nui ... Chile took control of the island and confined the Rapa Nui people to a small area of land, approximately one square mile”.

The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR), a body within the Organization of American States, has issued Precautionary Measures to protect the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island.

when more than 100,000 visitors were making the trek to Rapa Nui National Park and officials scrambled to find ways to combat overtourism. Easter Island, home to about 6,000 people, faces water ...

As early as BC 5500 people in Melanesia were voyaging ... is an early name for the island. On Rapa Nui, the more modern, and local, name for Easter Island, large palm forests flourished.

Thousands of people were abducted from Easter Island in the early ... “To be so warmly welcomed onto the island, to build relationships with Rapa Nui representatives, and to have the opportunity ...

It was originally published by the Indiana Capital Chronicle here: https://indianacapitalchronicl.... Indiana University has completed its first international repatriation of human remains to the Rapa ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon ... which created an unrivalled cultural landscape that continues to fascinate people throughout the world ...

Indiana University has completed its first international repatriation of human remains to the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island. A news release said IU’s Jayne-Leigh Thomas visited the island in ...