Hi! I'm Morgan, and I'm a 30-year-old Samoan woman. Morgan Sloss / BuzzFeed Even if you don't know much about Samoan culture, you've likely seen or heard about our tattoos. Fun fact: the English word ...

The Aranui 5 is a passenger-freighter vessel that makes 14-day voyages between Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands. James D. Morgan/Getty Images Born on the 40-square-mile island of Ua Pou in the ...

The filmmakers behind Moana put in plenty of effort to make the film as culturally accurate as possible. To tell the tale of Disney's first Polynesian hero, the animation giant formed the Oceanic ...

"I am so proud and grateful to be carrying this kakau (tattoo); truly feeling more whole," she wrote. "As I spend more and more time away from home, having my Mauna Kea, manu, and nihotaniwha remind ...