Colonized Oceania

The colonization of Oceania began in 1595 when the First European Invaders arrives in the Pacific, led by Pedro Fernández de Quirós and Diego de Prado y Tovar establish contact with the indigenous communities, the Spanish conquistadors enslaved everyone they made contact.

## Colonized Oceania

Hunter in Ancient Pacific Civilization 25,000 BCE

### Precced by

* Pirate Oceania
* Tongan Empire
* Portuguese Empire
* Spanish Empire
* British Empire

### Succeded by

* United Kingdom
* French Fifth Republic
* USA
* Kingdom of Spain
* Portuguese Empire
* The Netherlands
* Federation of Australia
* Dominion of New Zealand
* Papua New Guinea
* Fiji
* Solomon Islands
* Vanuatu
* Samoa
* Tonga
* Kiribati
* Tuvalu
* Marshall Islands
* Palau
* Federated States of Micronesia
* Nauru
* Niue
* Cook Islands
* Singapore
* Brunei
* Timor-Leste
* Indonesia
* Philippines

# Invasion

Armed soldiers seized lands and resources, different parts of Oceania were colonized by various European powers.

1. Melanesia: Colonized by European powers like Britain, France, Germany, and later Australia. Territories included Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, and New Caledonia.
2. Micronesia: By Spain, Germany, Japan, and the United States. Territories included the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, Palau, and the Marshall Islands.
3. Polynesia: By Britain, France, and the United States. Territories included Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti (French Polynesia), Hawaii (which became part of the United States), and others.

During the colonial period, life for native people was dependent on the colonizing power. It involved brutal punishments, including whippings and often death for people who resisted the colonial wishes. Colonial officials were allowed to force locals to serve them as they pleased and to punish entire communities for the actions of one person.

The populations experienced loss of land and resources, slavery, diseases such as the smallpox virus, loss of any sense of human rights as the invaders used them as tools, flesh trade, bio-organ health experiments and of course sexual slavery.

The primary goal of the colonization's was search for gold, silver and diamonds beside the extraction of natural resources such as timber, minerals, and agricultural products like sugar, coconut, and fruits.

Any kind of resistance was answered with executions and brutality.

# Mass Killings

When British settlers began colonizing Australia in 1788, The British seized the lands, engaged in genocidal massacres.

Starting in 1790s, mass killings were first carried out by British soldiers, then by police and settlers – often acting together – and later by native police, working under the command of white officers, in militia-style forces supported by colonial governments.

A revolution in firearms and a rise in the number of armed colonists was answered with much larger massacres in 1860's.

Toxic poison was used, chemicals such as arsenic, strychnine, corrosive sublimate, aconitum and prussic acid were allegedly involved. More massacres happened in the period 1860 to 1930 than in the period 1788 to 1860.

# Countries

List of countries in Oceania with their dates of establishment as independent - Colonial nations.

* Federation of Australia

   - Date of Establishment: January 1, 1901

* Dominion of New Zealand

   - Date of Establishment: September 26, 1907

* Papua New Guinea

   - Date of Establishment: September 16, 1975 (Independence from Australia)

* Fiji

   - Date of Establishment: October 10, 1970 (Independence from the United Kingdom)

* Solomon Islands

   - Date of Establishment: July 7, 1978 (Independence from the United Kingdom)

* Vanuatu

   - Date of Establishment: July 30, 1980 (Independence from the United Kingdom and France)

* Samoa

   - Date of Establishment: January 1, 1962 (Independence from New Zealand)

* Tonga

   - Date of Establishment: June 4, 1970 (Independence from the United Kingdom)

* Kiribati

   - Date of Establishment: July 12, 1979 (Independence from the United Kingdom)

* Tuvalu

    - Date of Establishment: October 1, 1978 (Independence from the United Kingdom)

* Marshall Islands

    - Date of Establishment: October 21, 1986 (Compact of Free Association with the United States)

* Palau

    - Date of Establishment: October 1, 1994 (Compact of Free Association with the United States)

* Federated States of Micronesia

    - Date of Establishment: November 3, 1986 (Compact of Free Association with the United States)

* Nauru

    - Date of Establishment: January 31, 1968 (Independence from the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand)

* Niue

    - Date of Establishment: October 19, 1974 (Self-government in free association with New Zealand)

* Cook Islands

    - Date of Establishment: August 4, 1965 (Self-government in free association with New Zealand)

* Singapore

    - Date of Establishment: August 9, 1965 (Independence from Malaysia)

* Brunei

    - Date of Establishment: January 1, 1984 (Full independence from the United Kingdom)

* Timor-Leste

    - Date of Establishment: May 20, 2002 (Formal independence from Indonesia)

* Indonesia

    - Date of Establishment: August 17, 1945 (Independence from the Netherlands, officially recognized in 1949)

* Philippines

    - Date of Establishment: June 12, 1898 (Declaration of Independence from Spanish colonial rule; later recognized by the United States on July 4, 1946)

# Results of Colonization

From the late 1800s until the 1980s, generations of First Nations children were forcibly sent to residential schools. At these schools, children were beaten for speaking their native language, religion was forced on them, physical and sexual abuse was rampant, and they were “civilized” with Western education.

Western propaganda sources stated that around 15,000 natives were killed in the massacres, however the true number of terror is larger by far. while propaganda erased the records, if one person dares to search the number of the deaths since 1595 to 1960s the result number will be around 7 or maybe 8 million of people.

Colonization has resulted in inequity, racism, religious hate and the rise of Nazism friendly ideas.

It is generally held that Australian Aboriginal peoples originally came from Asia via insular Southeast Asia (now Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, and the Philippines) and have been in Australia for at least 45,000–50,000 years which would make them one of the oldest population of humans living outside Africa.

Today more than half of all Aboriginals live in towns, often on the outskirts in terrible conditions. Many others work as labourers on cattle ranches that have taken over their land. Many, particularly in the northern half of the continent, have managed to cling on to their land and still hunt and gather 'bush tucker'.

Even to the day of the creation of this page, no one has ever held punished for the centuries-old crimes against the local population. The colonial powers are still in power and successfully covered up their crimes, however history remembers and justice awaits.