’Where is imperialism?’Look at your plates when you eat. These imported grains of rice, corn, and millet – that is imperialism. Thomas Sankarahttps://twitter.com/Y4NIKI/status/1295874993268506624 …
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Replying to @Manhellnaaah
What's interesting is actually the Marianas where I'm from were the only Pasifika islands that cultivated rice as part of our ancient customs. This shows our ties to SE Asia very well.
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Replying to @Lani4Pasifika @Manhellnaaah
Yes there’s fossilised rice powder found in some of the ancient swamps in Rarotonga, Cook Islands in the mountains which makes sense cause they’re laid out like rice terracespic.twitter.com/UOu9wybAah
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Replying to @Manhellnaaah @Lani4Pasifika
They’re all mostly used for Taro now but the streams run through all 50+ in use terraces, its tucked up in the valley this used to be an old settlement now descendents of the same people who lived there cultivate the land it’s gorgeous
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Replying to @Taungaatua @Manhellnaaah
It does look gorgeous! Do you have a scientific source for that which you mentioned? I tried to look that up but couldn't find it. It does mention taro farming though.
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Replying to @Lani4Pasifika @Manhellnaaah
I read an archaeological paper done on it a few years back by some Japanese archaeologists doing surveying in the 80s-90s if I can get my hands on it again I’ll let you know but there are multiple oral accounts of rice cultivation it just fell out of practice
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Replying to @Taungaatua @Manhellnaaah
Ahh ok! I'm not doubting you, but I was about to get frustrated at some colonizers for disregarding the Cook Islands as having rice during ancient times too lol. This is all I found on it, but it mentions taro farming only and rice farming as introduced.pic.twitter.com/IbGD60B1SM
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Replying to @Lani4Pasifika @Manhellnaaah
Yeah no worries ! I will do some research the same group of Japanese archeologists did a number of other papers on the other islands in the Cook Islands so it shouldn’t be too hard, but this specific area was known as the “fruit bowl” due to the abundance and vast variety of food
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Please update if you can find anything
I love reading about this kind of stuff!! Especially for other Pasifika places, I can only speak for mine but I love learning about others lol.
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Replying to @Lani4Pasifika @Manhellnaaah
Yes I’ll let you know ! I know it’s in book format cause it’s so old, so if I can get my hands on the same book Ill send you photos
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