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The Kamekame are the indigenous people of Ile Trouve, in the New Hibernia archipelago. | The Kamekame are the indigenous people of Ile Trouve, in the New Hibernia archipelago. | ||
− | The Kamekame have gone to great lengths to keep outsiders from their land. Early on, they somehow managed to (correctly) surmise that it was necessary to gain land-concessions from the French for the lands they currently occupied. Tribal representatives, unexpectedly shrewdly to European eyes, played the colonial powers off eachother ('Perhaps the British or Germans would grant us this thing?'), and finally granted “recognition” of France’s general dominion without ceding a centimeter of land. | + | The Kamekame have gone to great lengths to keep outsiders from their land. Early on, they somehow managed to (correctly) surmise that it was necessary to gain land-concessions from the French for the lands they currently occupied. Tribal representatives, unexpectedly shrewdly to European eyes, played the colonial powers off eachother ('Perhaps the British or Germans would grant us this thing?'), and finally granted “recognition” of France’s general dominion without ceding a centimeter of land. Ergo, most of Ile Trouve is private, collective property of the Kamekame within the larger French territory in Polynesia. |