of the indigenous Rapa Nui people, were evicted last Sunday from the Hotel Hanga Roa, which they occupied for six months claiming ancestral rights on the property the hotel sits upon. Rapa Nui ...

The new study shows that about 10 percent of the ancestry of the pre-European contact Rapanui was Indigenous ... peoples from ...

After the treaty was adopted last year by the United Nations, more than 100 countries have signified their intent to ratify ...

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 ...

The statues, known as moai, were carved by the island's indigenous Rapa Nui people to embody the spirit of a prominent ancestor, with each considered to be the person's living incarnation.

In 1966, Chile passed a law which authorized the President to grant land titles to the Rapa Nui people and prohibited the transfer of lands to non-indigenous individuals. However, land was ...

Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum has returned human remains taken from Easter Island by the explorer Thor Heyerdahl during his ...

Fewer than 30 indigenous seed-bearing plant species have survived on Rapa Nui to the present day ... rather than by people ...