ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the role of islanders' agency in terms of charting and steering a course as well as their contributions to the formation of island history in seascapes. It sustains a paradigm of trans-Indigeneity, of rooted routes, of a mobile, flexible, and voyaging subject who is not physically or culturally circumscribed by the terrestrial boundaries of island space as small and remote. By placing these two maritime/island literatures the chapter examines how Pacific Indigenes perform their insular identities and underscore the shared history and space of the islanders and their complex relationships to the waters that surround them. The three circular 'islands' feature significant messages directly related to the technique of Polynesian navigation, namely, that of 'moving island'. In his 'Voyaging for Anti-Colonial Recovery: Austronesian Seafaring, Archipelagic Rethinking, and the Re-mapping of Indigeneity', Diaz explains the concept and technique of 'moving islands' in detail.
