It is dark, pleasantly nippy and easy to get sucked into the blob of tourists sitting in front of a bunch of famous statues at one of the world’s most remote places. The sun is about to break on Rapa ...

Concert pianist Mahani Teave has traveled the world, But Rapa Nui, sometimes known as Easter Island, is her home. "Rapa Nui – that's what we call ourselves here also," she said. "That's our people, ...

Why is the disappearance of a language a problem? Language is inseparable from our way of being, our thoughts, our feelings, our joys and much more. It is through our language that we show who we are.

Mahani Teave grew up on one of the most remote islands on Earth, but the 38-year-old pianist still found a way to bring her music to the world — and music education to Rapa Nui. Jeffrey Brown tells ...

It was 2023 when Friar Francisco Nahoe received a panicked phone call from his agent at an airport in Santiago, Chile. The agent said officials were seizing three "ivi tupuna", or "bones of the ...

More than 1,289 miles from the nearest human settlement, Easter Island—or Rapa Nui, as its own people call it—is arguably the world’s most remote inhabited place. To the mystique of its isolation amid ...

Few stories in our human past spark as much imagination as the discovery of the most remote islands in the vast Pacific Ocean. Rapa Nui, sometimes known by its colonial name of Easter Island, is ...