The second provision, for the Rotuman administrative system, was to assuage the fears of the Rotuman Islanders of political and cultural domination by the other population groups.
In 1991–1993, he led a legal challenge to the law requiring all multiracial people to register on the General Electors' roll, which enrolls all Fijian citizens who are neither indigenous nor of Indian or Rotuman ancestry.
In Rotuma, kava has two contexts, ceremonial and informal.
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Nowadays, in the informal, social context Rotuman men commonly drink kava to relax, often while singing and dancing, and in some instances mix it with alcohol, evidence to its cultural shift in Rotuman society.
Pacific Islands represents married women across the Pacific Island chain to include the Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, the Midway Islands, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, the Cook Islands and Easter Island and is a part of the Mrs. United America Pageant.
The remaining 46 are reserved for Fiji's ethnic communities and are elected from communal electoral rolls: 23 Fijians, 19 Indo-Fijians, 1 Rotuman, and 3 "General electors" (Europeans, Chinese, and other minorities).
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Kadavu Province is one of fourteen provinces of Fiji, and forms part of the Eastern Division, which also includes the provinces of Lau, Lomaiviti and Rotuma.
This can be attributed to the high ratio of Caucasians to Rotumans in the early days of exposure to white people, when Rotuma became a haven to mutineers and stow-aways who appreciated the beauty of the island and found prosperity as the trading advisers to local chiefs when dealing with Occidental ships.