Asian & Pacific Islander Hauntings

While definitions of the Pacific Islands can vary depending on one's country of residence, certain consistencies follow:

• Three main regions

  • Polynesia

    • Area bound by Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand, and Easter Island

    • Includes Samoan Islands, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, etc

  • Melanesia

    • New Guinea, Papa New Guinea, Fiji, etc

  • Micronesia

    • Kiribati, Nauru, the Republic of Marshall Islands, etc

• 33 distinct peoples

  • Hawaiians, Māori, Tahitians, and Fijians are some of the more well known

This LibGuide will largely focus on Hawaiian and other Polynesian materials.

More Resources:

Digitalpasifik.org: An initiative of the Australian Government, National Library of Australia and Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, the National Library of New Zealand, to "develop a shared online place that seeks to make visible and accessible the digitized records of Pacific cultural heritage, held around the world, so that people in and of Pacific can connect with their stories."