The population of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, interbred with Native ... The civilization built there by the native ...

Today, those indigenous to the land call the island Rapa Nui, named for the Rapa Nui people. As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its ...

In the southern Pacific Ocean, far off the coast of Chile, lies the remote island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island ... s correcting the image of Indigenous people.” Located more than 2,000 miles ...

or other high-ranking males who held important positions in the history of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, the name given by the indigenous people to their island in the 1860s. Archaeologist Jo Anne ...

The Polynesian islands that span the southern part of the Pacific Ocean—the eastern most of which is Rapa Nui, or Easter Island—were initially ... found no genetic evidence of Native American ancestry ...