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欧米系島民 | |
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 The Gonzalez family, one of the earliest families on the Bonin Islands, sometime in the first half of the 20th century | |
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| Bonin Islands;United States | |
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| Bonin English,Japanese,American English | |
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| Irreligious,Christianity,Buddhism,Shinto | |
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| Austronesians,White Americans,Europeans,Native Hawaiians |
TheBonin Islanders, also known as theOgasawara Islanders orŌbeikei tōmin (欧米系島民,lit. 'European–American Islanders') in Japanese, are aEuronesian ethnic group native to theBonin Islands (or Ogasawara Islands).[1] They are culturally and genetically distinct from other Japanese ethnic groups such as theYamato,Ainu, andRyukyuans as they are the modern-day descendants of a multitude of racial and ethnic groups including theEuropeans,White Americans, andPolynesians who settledHahajima andChichijima in the 19th century.[2][3][4]
The first documented instance of human occupation of the Bonin Islands took place in 1830, when Matteo Mazzaro, a British citizen from Ragusa, Austria-Hungary (nowDubrovnik, Croatia), who would serve as governor, settled the island ofChichijima. He was accompanied byNathaniel Savory, aWhite American fromMassachusetts, John Millencamp, an American, Henry Webb and Charles Robinson, bothEnglishmen, Joaquim Gonsales, aPortuguese man, and approximately twentyNative Hawaiians, whose personal names were not recorded. Though Savory was American, his expedition had been commissioned by British forces, making it a British settlement.[5]
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