traditional food, music, dance, and entertainment. United States By the 1980s, the United States Census Bureau grouped persons of Asian ancestry and created the category "," which continued in the 1990s census. In 2000, "" and "" became two separate racial categories. According to the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program (PEP), a "" is,According to the Office of Management and Budget, "" refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. Eight out of 10 Pacific Islanders in the United States are native to the United States. Polynesians make up the largest group, including Native Hawaiians, Samoans, Tahitians, and Tongans. Micronesians make up the second largest, including primarily Chamoru from Guam; as well as other Chamoru, Carolinian from the Northern Mariana Islands, Marshallese, Palauans, and various others. Among Melanesians, Fijian Americans are the largest in this group. There are at least 39 different Pacific Island languages spoken as a second language in the American home. See also Aboriginal Australians Aboriginal Tasmanians Asian American and Pacific Islander Policy Research Consortium Austronesian peoples Indigenous Australians Indigenous peoples of Oceania Pacific Islander Americans References Further reading Lal, B., and K. Fortune, eds. 2000. "The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia." Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press. Okihiro, Gary Y. 2015. American History Unbound: Asians and Pacific Islanders. University of California Press.. Smelt, R., and Y. Lin. 1998. Cultures of the world: New Zealand. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark. Thomas, Nicholas. 2010. Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire. Yale University Press. . "Pacific Islanders in the NZEF." New Zealand History Online. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. 2019 March 26. External links Asian Pacific Americans in the U.S. Army Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Association Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples — exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved March 21, 2013. Ethnic groups in Oceania Indigenous peoples of Oceania