Who built the fishponds before the Tahitians?

[Midnight Rambler]

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Originally posted by bananahead

in reality they were slaves.. the Marquesas people were conquered and enslaved, then tortured and killed off, by the 'Tahitain-Hawaiians'..

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You don't kill off your slaves, they're the ones who do all the work. You can't support a large number of alii, warriors, and craftsmen - people who are completely unproductive as far as food - without a far bigger population of farmers and/or slaves.