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Togātolo o le pologa: Tagata Initia i Fiti

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Indentured workers in Fiji. Credit: Fiji Museum

Ua toe tō manatunatu tagata Initia-Fiti i le malaga na asā e o latou tua’ā mai Initia e galulue i togātolo i Fiti. E ‘ova i le 60,000 tagata e tupuga mai ia i latou nei ua aumau nei i Ausetalia. Peita’i, o loo feagai pea le to’atele o nisi o i latou ma ātugaluga poo ai i latou.


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Ua toe tō manatunatu tagata Initia-Fiti i le malaga na asā e o latou tua’ā mai Initia e galulue i togātolo i Fiti. E ‘ova i le 60,000 tagata e tupuga mai ia i latou nei ua aumau nei i Ausetalia. Peita’i, o loo feagai pea le to’atele o nisi o i latou ma ātugaluga poo ai i latou.


I le 40 tausaga e amata mai i le1879, e ‘ova i le to’a 60,000 tagata Initia na aumaia e le malo kolone a Peretania e galulue fa’akonekarate i tulaga fa’apologaina i Fiti.

O ni galuega na matuā tigāina ma faigatā i togātolo ma fale gaosi suka.

If you woke up late... you got whipped.
Hausildar, former indentured worker

E oo mai i aso nei, o loo fa’alogoina pea e augā tupulaga na tupuga mai ia i latou nei ātugaluga i mafatiaga o o latou tua’ā.

I le vaega lenei o le Our Pacific, o le a silasila ai i le taunu’u mai o tagata Initia e galulue i lalo o konekarate fa’apologa i Fiti.


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