Bonin Islanders
欧米系島民 | |
|---|---|
The Gonzalez family, one of the earliest families on the Bonin Islands, sometime in the first half of the 20th century | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Bonin Islands; United States | |
| Languages | |
| Bonin English, Japanese, American English | |
| Religion | |
| Irreligious, Christianity, Buddhism, Shinto | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Austronesians, White Americans, Europeans, Native Hawaiians |
The Bonin Islanders, also known as the Ogasawara Islanders or Ōbeikei tōmin (欧米系島民, lit. 'European–American Islanders') in Japanese, are a Euronesian ethnic group native to the Bonin Islands (or Ogasawara Islands). They are culturally and genetically distinct from other Japanese ethnic groups such as the Yamato, Ainu, and Ryukyuans as they are the modern-day descendants of a multitude of racial and ethnic groups including the Europeans, White Americans, and Polynesians who settled Hahajima and Chichijima in the 19th century.