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Kanak
Canaque
Total population
87,784 (1996)
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Melanesian languages, French, Polynesian languages
Religion
Christian
Cultural flag of the Kanak community, showing a flèche faîtière (a spear-like wooden totem monument placed atop traditional dwellings)

Kanak (formerly also Canaque) are the indigenous Melanesian inhabitants of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the southwest Pacific. They constitute 44.1% of the total population of New Caledonia.[1][2][3][4] Though Melanesian settlement is recorded on Grande Terre's Presqu'île de Foué peninsula as far back as the Lapita culture, the origin of Kanak people is unclear. Ethnographic research has shown that Polynesian seafarers have intermarried with the Kanaks over the centuries.[1][3]

A political movement, restarted by the Kanaks in 1984, after an initial failed revolt in 1867, has strongly pursued total independence status from the French rule. The movement is supported by the United Nations resolution of December 1986. If a 2014 referendum is passed, the territory would gain sovereign status.[2][3][4] When the 1988 Matignon agreements were signed between the representatives of France and New Caledonia to decide on holding the referendum for independence, Jean-Marie Tjibaou, the Kanak leader of the independence movement, had mooted a proposal to set up an Agency for the Development of Kanak Culture (ADCK). Its objectives were to promote Kanak's linguistic and archaeological heritage, promote Kanak handicrafts and the arts, encourage cross-regional interactions, evolve design, and conduct research programmes. After Tjibaou's assassination in 1989, this plan was implemented by France. The French President François Mitterrand ordered that a cultural centre on the lines suggested by Tjibaou be set up in Nouméa, the capital of New Caledonia; it was to be the last of Mitterrand's Grands Projets.[5] The Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, which identifies Kanak culture and identity, was formally established in May 1998.[6]

Although ancient Lapita potteries date back to 1500 BC. and the people of the island have long been involved in the arts, since the establishment of the ADCK, Kanak arts and crafts have become more popular in New Caledonia. Wooden carvings in the shape of hawks, ancient gods, serpents and turtles are popular as is Flèche faîtière, a carving which resembles a small totem pole with symbolic shapes, Music, dance and singing are part of many a Kanak ceremonial function such as initiation, courting and at the conclusion of mourning period. Dances are performed during the traditional Kanak gatherings with the objective of cementing relationships within the clan and with ancestors.

Etymology

The word 'Kanak' is derived from kanaka maoli, a Hawaiian word which was at one time applied indiscriminately by European explorers, traders and missionaries in the region to any non-European Pacific islander.[7][8] Prior to European contact, there were no unified states in New Caledonia, and no single self-appellation used to refer to its inhabitants. Other words have been coined from Kanak in the past few generations: Kanaky is an ethno-political name for the island or the entire territory.[9] Kanéka is a musical genre associated with the Kanak, stylistically a form of reggae with added flutes, percussion and harmonies. Kaneka often has political lyrics and is sung in Drehu, Paici or other Melanesian languages, or in French. The word "kanak" is grammatically invariable. The German racial epithet Kanake — which is now applied to all non-whites, even southern Europeans in some cases — also derives from the same source, and was originally applied to people from German colonial possessions in Oceania.[10]

Demographics and language

Two Kanak warriors posing with penis gourds and spears

New Caledonia or Territoire des Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependances, is situated off the north-east coast of Australia.[1][3] It was annexed to France in 1850, and has been an overseas territory of France since 1956. Kanaks have lived in New Caledonia for several centuries. Of its 500 islands, the five main ones are inhabited, with New Caledonia or La Grande Terre being the second largest island in the southwest Pacific Ocean. The islands are spread across an area 30 miles (48 km) wide and over 250 miles (400 km) in length.

As of 1996, the Melanesian Kanak people constituted 42.5% (79,808) of the population of 187,784 in New Caledonia,[11] a minority in their own land. The other groups consist of Europeans (mostly French) at 37%, Wallisian 8% and Polynesians, Indonesians and Vietnamese the balance.[2] In 1775, there were 70,000 Kanaks living on the islands which declined to 27,000 during early colonial rule as a result of their forcible living in the reserved areas.[12] Kanaks were historically associated with tribes, including the Bwaarhat, Tiendanite, Goa, and Goosana, as well as clans, such as the Poowe.[13]

There are significant populations of the descendants of Kanak people living in Australia, particularly in sugar cane growing areas in Queensland, where they were brought as labourers to work in the cane fields. There are many social links and intermarriages between these people and local Australian Aboriginal groups.

Language

"Most of them are spoken and because they are taught at school some of them need to have a standard to be written and the academy can also produce new texts for the teaching of the languages." (Jacques Vernaudeon, Noumea university linguistics lecturer, 2007)

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Main article: New Caledonian languages

While French is the official language, Kanak languages are extremely diverse. There are 28 distinct Kanak languages, as well as many dialects, out of the out of the 1200 Melanasian languages spoken throughout the Pacific. They are mutually incomprehensible.[15][16] All of the languages except for one are a part of the Melanesian branch of the Austronesian languages family. Fagauvea is the exception as it is a Polynesian language. New Caledonia languages are divided into several groups. The Northern Language group is tonal and includes 12 languages: Caac, Cemuhi, Fwai, Jawe, Kumak, Nemi, Paici, Pije, Pwaamei, Pwapwa, Yalayu, and Yuaga.[17] Approximately 60,000 residents of New Caledonia speak at least one of the Kanak languages. Most of these languages are only in spoken form, and there is a need to establish a norm.[14] There is no one unified language among the Kanaks; however the largest group of Kanak’s speak Drehu (a mixture of Polynesian, French and English).[16]

Location of New Caledonia, home of the Kanak people

Coming from an oral tradition, the written word was nonexistent until the missionary arrival. Kanak knowledge was passed orally in the form of poems, legends, and stories. Children's oral history is provided by Kanak parents and other relatives who also use tickling and onomatopoeic noise to hold the child's attention. Of the Kanak authors, some of the notable ones are Tjibaou who wrote La Presence Kanak; Susanna Ounei-Small, a kanak author from Ouvéa who wrote about the Matignon Accords; and Kaloombat Tein, author of Hwanfalik – Sayings from the Hienghene Valley which provides insight into Hienghène legends and is written in the Hienghène dialect, with English language translation.[17]

Tjibaou was involved in the establishment of the Ecoles populaires kanak, which was taught in the local language and educated children in local spiritual and practical knowledge, while also including French and English language instruction.[13] Since 2006, pre-school children have been given the opportunity to learn indigenous Kanak languages. While the Kanak languages have been taught in high schools across the Loyalty Islands and North Province, the language education has not been as common in the more European South Province.[18] Creation of the Kanak Language Academy (KLA) was a provision of the Nouméa Accord.[14]

History

Antique lithograph of Kanaks.

Origin

Melanesian settlement on Grande Terre dates at least as far back as the Lapita culture.[19] However, the origin of Kanak people is unclear. Obsidian transported from New Guinea was found with the earliest New Caledonian Lapita pottery. In addition, some researchers have claimed there is evidence of New Caledonian human habitation dating from 3000 BC (predating Lapita culture by 1500 years), while others claim to have found pre-Lapita pottery.[20] At the Fourth Lapita Conference, held in June 2000, in Canberra, Australia, the question was posed: "Is Lapita Kanak, or is Lapita the oldest and first ancestor of a later culture that is labelled Kanak?"[21] Still another problem in determining the origin and early history of Kanak people is that the archaeological interpretation is in conflict with the views of Kanak people which have become politicized subsequent to colonial rule.[22]

Early colonial rule

The earliest history of the European colonist arriving on these islands is when Captain Cook of the United Kingdom landed in these islands in 1775 at a time when there were reportedly 70,000 Kanaks living in the archipelago. Cook gave the name "New Caledonia" to these islands, after Caledonia, his Scottish highlands.[1][3]

During the colonial period, in the 19th century, Kanaks were recruited or enslaved, to perform unfree labour in places such as Australia, California, Canada, Chile and Fiji (with the inter-Asian slave trade to India, Japan, South Africa, and what is now Malaysia. During the 3,000 years that Kanaks lived in the remote islands, they were unprepared for the arrival of European viruses and bacteria.[23] The Kanaks were uprooted from the land and were forced into slave labour to work on French plantations, ranches and public works.[24]

Revolt

Kanak warriors

When Kanaks were forced to move to reserve areas ("Customary Land")[25] of the island, closer to the mountains, they occupied only 10 percent of the area of their legitimate country given that their population had declined so dramatically due to disease, and their living conditions became very hard. This situation arose consequent to induction of 20,000 convicts by the French government between 1864 and 1897, most of whom settled permanently in the country, and who were employed to extract nickel (beginning with 1864) and copper from 1875 onwards. This caused serious resentment among the Kanaks who revolted in 1878 against the French colonial rule, which was suppressed by the French who were better armed.[2] The Kanak leader was decapitated, and his head was put on display in the Museum of Natural History.[12]

After World War II

After World War II, the Kanaks' independence movement again picked up momentum when the United Nations placed Kanaky on its Decolonisation List of Non-Self-Governing Territories in 1946. A major progression occurred when Kanaks and French settlers in the country obtained voting rights in 1951. The Kanaks were then also allowed to move out of their reserve areas. This was followed by the establishment of the Territorial Assembly in 1957, but this was short lived;Charles de Gaulle abolished it after he became the President of France, in 1958.[2][26]

It was only in 1981 that the movement for Independence could again be restarted, following the murder of the leader of the Union Caledonienne [who?]. A national forum titled "Front de Liberation Nationale Kanak Socialiste (FLNKS)” was established in 1984. This forum refused to participate in elections to the Territorial Assembly and even declared their own Provincial Government, met with aggression by the French.[2] FLNKS "organized a boycott of the territorial elections in New Caledonia, smashing ballot boxes and setting up roadblocks to prevent people from voting".[24] The FLNKS persisted with their agitation and unilaterally announced on 7 January 1985 that a referendum on independence would be conducted in July 1985. After the murder of a Kanak leader named Eloi Machero in 1985, Kanak activists took 27 gendarmes hostage on the island of Ouvea, igniting French aggression.[27] The Kanaks proposed a self-government in January 1986. An interim arrangement was announced by Mitterrand who moved to give greater autonomy in the colony. However, Prime Minister Chirac stationed troops in the islands and the autonomy issue was shelved.[2] The FLNKS, however, backed in their struggle by regional organizations such as the "Groupe du fer de lance mélanesien" (The Melanesian Spearhead Group), the Pacific Forum, and the Nonaligned Countries Movement, were successful in getting the UN Resolution 41-41 A of 2 December 1986 passed which re-inscribed Kanaky on the Decolonisation List of Non-Self-Governing Territories.[26] However, this resolution did not mitigate the Kanaks' problems as what ensued was more repression by the French, and killing of Kanak people in 1987, and a virtual massacre in 1988 known as "the Ouvea Massacre" carried out by 300 French police, killing 19 Kanaks.[28] Following this massacre, there was an international outcry which resulted in initiation of talks for settlement between the French Government, the Kanaks and the French settlers,[2] who are known as Caldoches.[29]

Matignon Accord

An agreement called the Matignon Accord followed on 6 November 1988 between the French and the Kanaks, which had the majority support of 80% of the French people.[30] According to the Matignon Accord (or Matignon Agreement) a referendum on independence was proposed to be held by 1998. What followed was a tragedy, as two of the Kanak leaders who had signed the agreement, Jean-Marie Tjibaou and Yeiwene Yeiwene, were assassinated on 4 May 4, 1989.[13][31] The Kanaks were unhappy with the situation as they felt that France would never allow Kanaks to regain their free nation. Since the Kanaks were a minority population in their own country, inhabiting mainly lesser developed rural areas, and the Caldoches were in the majority, controlling the urban and military area around Nouméa, the French government retained jurisdiction over foreign and military affairs, land ownership, treasury and immigration.[2]

Nouméa Accord

A subsequent agreement, the "Nouméa Accord", was signed between the FLNKS President and the French Government on 5 May 1998,[32] allowing for a degree of autonomy to New Caledonia over a transition period of up to 20 years. A referendum for independence from France is to be held between 2013 and 2018. Progressive changes that were expected of this agreement were in the local political control and structure; Kanaky would have greater say over internal and regional affairs while France retains sovereign rights including control over military and foreign affairs.[2][26] However, in a speech made before the Fourth Commission of the United Nations on 10 October 2005, the FLNKS Vice President, Leopold Joredie, highlighted lacunae and discrimination against the Kanak people in implementation of this accord in respect to economic developmental actions, particularly in the mining industry where the power remains in the hands of the non-Kanak people, regulations related to delaying the provincial elections, discrimination in land claims in urban and rural areas, and also unchecked and unregulated environment pollution in the southern region of the country. He urged the UN to " to establish a monitoring and follow-up system for the previous contracts signed between multinationals and municipalities, by drawing on the initiatives of Global Witness and asking the UN to put in place an ad hoc commission in order to protect the wealth of New Caledonia, following the example of what was done for Congo."[26]

Present status

The Caledonian Union (French: Union calédonienne, UC) (UC) party, one of the political parties within the pro-independence FLNKS group had, in 2010, appealed for a national committee evaluate progress and prepare New Caledonia for the change in leadership before the planned referendum in 2014.[33] In this appeal, the UC also highlighted that, according to the Nouméa Accord, it was obligatory for the French government to train and build the capacity of Kanaks to be able to take over the government in 2014 and urged them to respond swiftly.[34]

Culture

Traditional beliefs and religion

Kanaks, 1880

The Kanaks were known to worship their ancestors. This worship was embodied in the sepulcher, sacred stones, and devotional hearths where they offered sacrifices.[35] Religion is an important aspect of Kanak’s life. Kanaks attend the Catholic Church in Nouméa. and they form nearly 50 percent of the population of Catholics in New Caledonia, next only to the Europeans. Also, the majority of Protestants are Kanaks.[16] However, there are a few who follow traditional beliefs.

According to the traditional beliefs of the Kanak people, the sea is sacred as it provides them with “fish as food, so they treat it with great reverence.” The folk stories created by the Kanak people not only attest to this fact but are also strictly followed as unwritten laws. Some of the important aspects of the oral laws relate to environmental protection and conservation, such as the closure of fishing operations when the fish stocks are on the decline, and fishing rights in certain areas are strictly observed with respect to locals.[36]

Conservation

Following these beliefs and traditions, Kanak people and Conservation International (CI) have been jointly involved in conserving the ancestral waters and natural resources. According to a rapid assessment survey conducted with help from the Kanaks, 42 coral reefs have been identified for protection near Nord's Mont Pani Province. Its rich biodiversity reserves also include sea cucumbers, molluscs, crustaceans, herrings, groupers, and snappers. Supporting Kanak traditions, the Coral Reef Initiative for the South Pacific's (CRISP) partnership with CI provided recommendations and underwater species guides to the Kanak people.[37] In ???? a proposal was put forward to promote the entire coastal region as a World Heritage Site.[citation needed] Further work on this initiative has been pursued by CI's Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, the Coral Reef Initiative for the South Pacific (CRISP), and the French Government, in collaboration with WWF to assess marine resources used by both Kanak tribes and people of European descent across three coastlines of the Nord Province.[36]

Cuisine

A Kanak woman with bougna, a casserole of fruit and fish baked in a ground oven.

Bougna is a Kanak casserole. A traditional food item, it is a national food for many Kanaks.[20] Made of sliced root vegetables which might include taro, manioc, yams, it is soaked in coconut milk.[38] Pork, chicken, or seafood may be used in the filling which is then wrapped in poingo banana leaves before being cooked over hot stones in an earthen oven.[39] Other local ingredients used in Kanak cuisine include Rousettus (flying foxes) and local deer; marine staples such as lagoon and coral reef fish, (including dawa), as well as crabs and lobsters. Paita beans are locally grown haricots, while custard-apple, lime and saffron are other local ingredients.[38]

Fine arts

The Kanak arts of sculpture, dance, music and theatre have become more popular since the 1990s with the efforts of the Agency for Development of Kanak Culture ADCK.[40] Art forms in Kanak culture comprise:

Lapita pottery

The ancient Lapita potteries date to 1500 BC. Essentially a women’s craft, the pottery is generally decorated with geometric patterns and stylised human faces, although there is variation between northern and southern New Caledonian pottery. The various handles and glazes have pinhole-incised designs made from tooth combs. The pottery was made from clay deposits found in the islands.[41]

Paintings

Painting is a recent art form common among women artists. Famous artists include Yvette Bouquet from Koumac who has produced paintings with Pacific and Oceania themes, Paula Boi, whose paintings are of more abstract scenes, and Denise Tuvouane and Maryline Thydjepache who use mixed art forms. Bus stop shelters are common places where their paintings are illustrated.[42]

Wood sculpture

Wood sculpture represents the spirit of Kanak culture of which the Flèche faîtière, which resembles a small totem pole with symbolic shapes, is the most common. A mini Stonehenge-looking religious memorial near the village in L'Île-des-Pins has a display of religious carvings. Other wooden objects include war clubs carved from the strongest wood made in the form of a phallic head (casse-tete), a lethal bird's beak club (bec d'oiseau) and spears made from niaouli trees used to burn enemy houses.[40]

Fragment of a roof finial of a large clan house, sculpture of the Kanak people made of Houp wood, New Caledonia, late 14th century—early 15th century

Wooden carvings in the shape of hawks, ancient gods, serpents and turtles are also popular. The Grand Huts also known as grande case (chef's hut) are decorated with the filial of fleche faitiere representing the ancestral spirits, symbolic of transition between the world of the dead and the world of the living.[43] The wood carving is shaped like the spear-like carving that adorns the top of the grande case. It comprises three parts namely the flat crowned face representing the ancestor with a long, rounded pole run through by conch shells mounted on it that represents the ancestor’s voice, and a base with the pole fixed to it to symbolize the link between the clan and the chief. The central piece is also flanked by wooden pieces with sharp points (facing downwards) that are intended to prevent bad spirits enveloping the ancestor in the central part.[43][44] As it represented the power of the chiefs over their subjects, it was adopted as flag of the Kanaks by the organization leading the independent movement in New Caledonia.[43] The arrow or the spear normally has a needle at the end to insert threaded shells from bottom to top. After the death of a Kanak chief, the fleche faitière is removed and his family takes it to their home. Though it was allowed to be used again as a sign of respect it is normally kept at burial grounds of noted citizens or at the mounds of abandoned grand houses.[43]

Stone carving

Stone carvings made of jade or serpentinite are in the form of ceremonial axe representing clan's strength and power. These were used to behead enemies during war and during ancestor celebrations known as Pilou. The bottom of the handle represents the particular clan and is embellished with stones and shells. The axe is polished smooth like a disc. Carvings made of soapstone are also popular.[45]

Bamboo carvings

A meter in length canes, dated between 1850 and 1920, are used to make an entry into a village or in dance ceremonies. The canes were fired to give black patina over the engraved parts; the engraving designs consist of geometrical real images from the pilou dance, agricultural motifs and village scenes of fishing or building a Grand Hut or case. These were also stuffed with magic herbs to ward off evil spirits.[45]

Tapa

Tapa is a bark cloth made into small pieces, often from banyan trees used to wrap up Kanak ancient bead money.[46]

Boats

Kanaks living on the islands made canoes out of hollowed–out trunks and large double–hulled outriggers with triangular sails, known as pirogues, traditionally used for fishing.[46]

Dances

Dances are performed during the traditional Kanak gatherings with the objective of cementing relationships within the clan and with ancestors. Dance is performed in the form of a message or a legend, mostly regarding everyday life such as fishing, a turtle swimming, Grand Hut (traditional hut) building and so forth. Dancers paint themselves colourfully to please the ancestors watching over them.[47]

Wooden masks made of local materials such as bark, feathers and leaves adorn them representing a physical link with the invisible world. The Festival des Arts du Facifique, the Festival of Pacific Arts, is organized every four years. Dancers are trained in traditional dances in special workshops. Welcome dances performed by groups are very popular. Of the various dance forms, the pilou-pilou dance is a unique dance form of the Kanaks, which recounts many stories of the clans. The pilou-pilou dance form of the Kanaks, now almost extinct, was so named by the early French missionaries of New Caledonia and involved stomping with bamboo tubes and beating of bark-clappers accompanied by singing in duets with shrieks and whistles of hundreds of dancers.[47][48]

Stories narrated through dance forms are related to birth, marriage, preparations for battle, the arrival of the missionaries and the subsequent conversion to Christianity, Chiefs taking over powers, circumcision of children, death of a chief and so forth. However, in view of very strong nature of this form of dance, with a trance-like status attained by the dancers, these have been banned; the last such dance reported was in 1951.[47]

Music

Music, dance and singing are part of many a Kanak ceremonial function such as initiation, courting and at the conclusion of mourning period. Instruments are played and vocal singing is popular. Kanak groups such as Bethela first made the recordings on cassette around 1975 or 1976.[49] However, there is no language either for the music or the instruments. Conch shells blown by an appointed person to represent a clan chief’s arrival or as voice of an ancestor is the sound producing instrument, which is widely used. Rhythm instruments used are: Bwanjep used during ceremonies by a group of men; Jew's harp (wadohnu in the Nengone language where it originated) made of dried piece of coconut palm leaf held between the teeth and an attached segment of soft nerve leaf; coconut-leaf whizzer, a piece of coconut leaf attached to a string and twirled that produces a noise like a humming bee; oboe made of hollow grass stems or bamboo; end-blown flute made of 50 cm long hollowed pawpaw leaf stem; bamboo stamping tubes that are struck vertically against the ground and played at major events; percussion instruments (hitting sticks, palm sheaths), rattles that are worn on the legs made of coconut leaves, shells and certain fruits.[50]

Arts festivals

Exhibit of stages of construction of a Kanak hut

In 1971 the womens' association, Smiling Melanesian Village Women's Groups was formed and advocated the idea of a cultural festival to promote Kanak arts. As a result of this movement the first festival of Melanesian arts, "Melanesia 2000", was held in Nouméa in September 1975, supported by Jean-Marie Tjibaou.[49][51] Kanak arts festivals became popular with two international events held early in the 1990s that created the awareness of Kanak arts. The first exhibition of modern-day wood sculptors and painters was held at Ko i Neva, which was also published as contemporary Kanak arts. This was followed by a large exhibition of Kanak arts in Paris known as “De Jade et de Nacre - Patrimoine Artistique Kanak (Jade and Mother of Pearl - Kanak Artistic Heritage”.[52]

The Centre Cultural Tjibaou also stages occasional art exhibitions. A popular quadrennial event is the Festival of Pacific Arts where the indigenous people of all Pacific nations and people gather to display the Pacific's cultural heritage.[52]

See also

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