Monthly Archives: June 2019

A month ago journalist, Christine Rovoi, wrote an article for Radio New Zealand about how people people from the Fijian dependency of Rotuma living in New Zealand are trying hard to keep the language alive with classes and engaging in the second … Continue reading →

Did you ever wonder how dancing started? Well, here’s a story from the Cook Islands that will tell how the people learned to dance. The legend comes to us from the book, Tales Told in Hawaii. Enjoy! The Origin of Dancing … Continue reading →

Last month a Radio New Zealand Pacific journalist, Sally Round, wrote an article about the aim to build 100 canoes by Christmas by one of the Pacific’s most ambitious traditional boat building projects in Fiji.  Uto ni Yalo Trust is … Continue reading →

Last month Tonga’s late Queen Sālote Tupou lll was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) Pacific Music Awards in Auckland, New Zealand. The award will be posthumously presented at the 15th awards ceremony. Queen Sālote … Continue reading →

Tokelau’s government is looking at standardizing its national language. The changes, which were put forward at its parliamentary meeting this month, are in response to a different alphabet used in New Zealand. Tokelau’s ulu, or leader, Kelihiano Kalolo, said there had been difficulties … Continue reading →

The Vanuatu Daily Post recently reported that Chairman of the National Arts Festival, Chief Owen Rion Lapuenmal of Litzlitz Village, has called on the people of Malekula, Vanuatu, to wake up to the reality that they are going to host the … Continue reading →

  In the past we celebrated International Archives on a single day, which was June 9. This year we are celebrating International Archives for an entire week, June 3-9, 2019! Below is a message from the International Council on Archives … Continue reading →