Polynesians

The term "irredentist" is not typically used in reference to American ethnic groups. It comes from the Italian phrase terra irredenta, meaning “unredeemed land,” which was used originally in the late nineteenth century to refer to Italian-speaking territories under Austrian rule. However, this paper argues that "American irredentist" can describe Mexican-Americans, Native Hawaiians, Eskimos/Aleuts, and Puerto Ricans. Each of these groups is different, with a different history and a different culture, but considering them as American irredentists alters our way of looking at them and their special relationships to the United States.

There is evidence that lifestyle intervention among Polynesian people can reduce diabetes incidence and complications, but this evidence has not been systematically reviewed. The aim of this study was to systematically review the efficacy of lifestyle interventions, targeting the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes among Polynesian people. MEDLINE, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Embase were searched to find randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and pre-post studies. Eight studies (four RCTs and four pre-post studies) with 1590 participants met the inclusion criteria. The data on health outcomes that was reported in these studies included blood pressure, body mass index, waist circumference, weight, and glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c). The meta-analyses showed that the interventions had resulted in statistically significant reductions in systolic blood pressure (SBP) across four of the studies (WMD, −9.93 mmHg; 95% Cl, −10.77 to −9.09; and < 0.00001). ...

P olynesian archaeology is undergoing a renaissance with spirited debates on a number of fundamental issues such as dating human colonization of islands and archipelagoes, determining the causes of landscape change (whether human-induced, climate affected, or some manner of both), defining the temporal and geographical limits oflong-distance interaction spheres, the causes and consequences of sociopolitical change, and the nature of Ancestral Polynesian Culture. None of these topics engender a discipline-wide consensus, least of which is the date for the colonization of any Polynesian archipelago. A recent review of Polynesian archaeology (Kirch & Kahn 2007) cataloged more than 500 citations since a similar inventory a decade earlier (Kirch & Weisler 1994) with opinions weighing up on both sides of each of these and other issues. In a 2007 article entitled "Credit Where Credit is Due: The History of the Chumash Oceangoing Plank Canoe" in American Antiquity (72: 196209), Je...