Population
In the 2000 and 2010 U.S. Census the term "'Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander'" refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, the Marshalls or other Pacific Islands. Pacific Islanders are of Polynesian, Micronesian and Melanesian cultural backgrounds." The US Census counts Indigenous Australians and Māori, the natives of New Zealand, as part of the Pacific Islander race.
In the 2010 census 1,225,195 Americans claimed "'Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander'" as their race alone or in combination.
Read more about this topic: Pacific Islander American
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—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)