page_title: List of indigenous peoples
section_title: Melanesia
hierarchical_section_title: List of indigenous peoples / Oceania / Melanesia
caption_attribution_description: A music show in Fiji. Photo was taken in 2008
context_page_description: This is a partial list of the world's indigenous / aboriginal / native people. Indigenous people are "those ethnic groups that were indigenous to a territory prior to being incorporated into a national state, and who are politically and culturally separate from the majority ethnic identity of the state that they are a part of". There are internationally recognized definitions of indigenous peoples, such as those of the United Nations, the International Labour Organization and the World Bank.
  This list is grouped by region, and sub-region. Note that a particular group may warrant listing under more than one region, either because the group is distributed in more than one region in North America and eastern Russia, or there may be some overlap of the regions themselves.
context_section_description: Melanesia generally includes New Guinea and other (far-)western Pacific islands from the Arafura Sea out to Fiji. The region is mostly inhabited by the Melanesian peoples.
  Melanesians
  Austronesian speaking Melanesians
  Fijians (iTaukei): Fiji
  Kanak: New-Caledonia
  Malaitan people: Malaita, Solomon Islands
  Ni-Vanuatu: Vanuatu
  Papuan speaking Melanesians
  Baining
  Papuans: more than 250 distinct tribes or clans, each with their own language and culture. The main island of New Guinea and surrounding islands (territory forming independent state of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Indonesian provinces of West Papua and Papua. Considered "Indigenous" these people are a subject to many debates.
  Sepik peoples
  Kwoma: Peilungua Mountains, Papua New Guinea.
  Iatmul: Sepik, Papua New Guinea.
  Sepik Hill
  Sanio
  Hewa: Southern Highlands, PNG
  Trans New-Guinean peoples
  Huli of the Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea.
  Angu: Southwestern Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
  Bosavi
  Kaluli-Kasua
  Kaluli: Great Papuan Plateau, PNG
  Ok
  Mountain Ok
  Wopkaimin: western PNG, Star Mountains.
  West Trans New-Guinean peoples
  Dani: Papua, Indonesia
  Korowai: West Papua, close to the Papua New Guinea border.
  Asmat: Asmat Regency, West Papua.
caption: Fijians.
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