Hotu Matu'a
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Who is Hotu Matu'a?
Hotu Matu'a was the legendary first settler and ariki mau of Easter Island and ancestor of the Rapa Nui People. Hotu Matu'a and his two canoe colonising party were Polynesians from the now unknown land of Hiva. They landed at Anakena beach and his people spread out across the island, sub-divided it between clans claiming descent from his sons, and lived for more than a thousand years in their isolated island home at the southeastern tip of the Polynesian Triangle.
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