Although even this &/or that is a Very Sad & Very Heart-Breaking Story all about our South Sea Islander (Kanaka) background but Thank You Very Much & Cheers to you both Malcolm & Geoffrey Meninga for sharing your very own South Sea Islander (Kanaka) background story which is very interesting, very enjoyable and very mind blowing as well too of course.

This hüřțs and is so painful to watch, as a South Sea Islander, from Malaita, to see my Elders and family crying for us. To hear Malaitans left crying the museum, cüt đeep. Don't worry I'm crying too. 😢. 🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🖤

AUSTRALIA, WHY YOU DID THIS TO VANUATU,SOLOMON ISLANDS AND KANAKY OF NEW CALEDONIA??😢😢😢

The history of the Caucasian race is pure evil

They did blackbirding in Bougainville too. Nothing short of slavery. The melanesian peoples were the targets.

What about the other brother, the murderer and rapist? Talk about that part of your bloodline

Where he from?

The Son seek her mother.

Meninges ate MELANEDIANS...❤😂🎉🎉🎉

Thank you this is information for our family (Pomere/Herrera). Eleo is my grandpa's blood cousin (1st cousins) who grew up as brothers, they came to the USA in New York City along with their Auntie Feliciana Pomere. I have the picture from the newspaper of them becoming USA citizens. My grandpa would tell me stories of him and how they grew up together on the island San Andres, Colombia. I would love to learn more about him.

Cane Hackers = KANAKA

This was an awesome video thank you from Australia 🦘

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My dad's dad from Tanna (Kelima Levi) 🫶🏾

Its surprising, not many young people know about this. "Black Birding". Go to Google and have read. Especially Melanesians.The modern day version is the "Fruit Picking#. Seasonal Workers.

I just saw this and am deeply saddened that Graham passed away - we first met back in '88 and not long after we drove up to Mackay for a family reunion - he is one of the people I have missed in Australia (I moved to America in 2006) and he will be deeply missed in my world - blessings and good 4tune to everybody who knew him....

I think they have a younger brother az well ? Beven i think .

These devils 😈 really went around the world 🌎 to kill steal and destroy. John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy...

My grandma who die when i was 5 years old when bonita she is my grandma 😢😢😢 and she care for me and my sister 😭😭😭😭😭

Is Jeffery the one who gRapes?

Thank you for the upload.

Am also looking for my grandfather was taken as a slave in Australia he is from Solomon islands

Immigration laws to bar non white as if it was your country. You stole it from the native Australian.

This was all slavery. How dare that narator had the audacity to say that they were paid. They were stolen from their homes. Cruelty. Underpaid. Australia needs to compensate this people. They need to be called out.

Slavery! Rubbish. You need to look at history more closely. The vast majority were indentured, like white apprentices were up until the 1960s. When the Kanakas returned to their islands they often took the firearms they had bought with their wages. This made them important men at home.

Many of these Kanakas went on to own Cane Farms in North Queensland. These South Sea Islanders were hard workers. The Hennaways, Coles & Lamptons were very respected families in Ayr. These people were not entitled to anything the A&TSI's are entitled too.

Am from Vanuatu thanks for reminding 😢😢😢

Once again Europeans going into other countries who they think people are domesticated stealing them mixing them with white blood and enslaving them or escavating the land horrible

"It is childish to suppose that on islands which contain so many returned labourers there can be the slightest doubt as to the terms of employment on the plantations. This ridiculous supposition is, however, frequently put forward. And the answer of our correspondent is that, going in a labour schooner with the hope of exposing untold iniquities in the traffic, he found the natives in a conspiracy against him. Some accepted the terms, and some declined them, but all acted of their own free will. Under the present regulations the so-called scandal of the labour traffic is merely the gossip of old women... The profits on sugar growing are not large enough to admit of a system of slavery under the present regulations. Whatever the planter might desire, he must be content to treat the Polynesian as a free labourer.” The Argus, Melbourne, 22-12-1892.

When I was in boarding school at Scots College in Warwick in the 70s,we went on a school excursion to the Sunshine Coast. At Buderim in the afternoon we went to see a sugar burning and cane cutting. One of the person cutting the cane was black but did not look aboriginal. He looked Melanesian. In the 60s when I was growing up in Bougainville during the Australian colonizing we were known as natives or kanakas. I first read about tthis slave trade at boarding school. One of my realive was blackbirded to Fiji to cut cane in 1862. Last year 2022 his decendents visited our clan here back in Buka, Bougainville PNG. They came back from as far as America.

Anglo-Saxons curse so many pains around the and they're still doing believing nothing any body can do.

Emotional hearing this stories.

REPARATIONS!!!

Malenisean genes never disappoints.

no wonder why Mal was so strong and superstar on his days in League because of his blood going back to the Pacific Islands

Slavery Abolished in the British Realm in 1833. Civil war in America ends in 1865. Australia "Blackbirding" continued till 1901. Mistreatment continued after Federation. Colonial Sugar Growing! Australia's shame!

The war began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861. The war ended in Spring, 1865. Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.Slavery Abolition Act, (1833), in British history, act of Parliament that abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada. It received Royal Assent on August 28, 1833, and took effect on August 1, 1834. Slavery was illegal in the British Realm since 1833. What do these dates mean in a legal sense? The South Sea Islanders of Queensland are the descendants of South Sea Islanders brought to here from 1863 to 1904 from 80 Melanesian islands to work the State’s cotton and sugar plantations. So the "Enslavement" of people occurred 30 years after it was declared illegal. The Sugar Refining Company won't save you! I support reparations to the descendants and to the Islands from whence the South Sea Islanders came.

DAVID RICHARD IS A LIAR. DON'T BELIEVE HIM. SHAME ON HIM.

I didn't know about this history

Wow...Thankyou, very informative...🙏🙏😌😌

We are Ni-Vanuatu NOT KANAKAS

I am really amazed at how unwilling Australians / Australia is to come to terms with its past. Thank you for making a documentary on the 'blackbirds' . It's likely very few people know about this aspect of Australia's past. Australian governments have been complicit in hiding that country's history of enslavement of peoples from the rest of the world.

Inau Tamama - That I understand to be "I am your father".

Where does his last name come from

Damn right his family were the chief warriors! Dude is a barbarian warrior! Seen his boxing match? Wtf... dropping dudes with jabs. He seriously could have been a champion of any physical sport he chose.

Thank you

Two of the wildest islands of melanesia,tanna and malaita..no wonder you were a beast on the rugby field..

My people 🇻🇺

Now they trick us again with the seasonal working scheme..