Among other things, it aims to give indigenous Fijians a great stake in the economy.

A new constitution ensuring control of the government by indigenous Fijians was adopted in 1990.

For indigenous Fijians it is a day for church, rest and spending time with family.

Fijian is a spoken either as a first or second language by indigenous Fijians who make up around 54% of the population.

But much of the recent growth of the city itself has been due to indigenous Fijians moving into the urban area.

Indigenous Fijians own most of the land and are engaged chiefly in agriculture.

It had a population of around 9,000, some 75 percent of them indigenous Fijians, at the 1996 census.

He wanted to allocate the ownership of coastal land to the indigenous Fijians.

They also affirmed that the nation's chiefs represent the entire population, not only indigenous Fijians.

Qarase said that indigenous Fijians were capable of making up their own minds.