The indigenous peoples of Nauru are an ethnicity, which inhabit the Pacific island of Nauru.
The origin of the Nauruan people has possibly be explained by the last Malayo-Pacific human migration. It was probably seafaring or shipwrecked Polynesians or Melanesians, which established themselves there because there was not already an indigenous people present, whereas the Micronesians were already crossed with the Melanesians in this area.
The Nauruans have two elements of their population: the native Micronesians and the Polynesians who had immigrated long before. The Micronesians are represented through coarse, dark hair; the Polynesians are lighter brown and have smoother, black hair. Through these two extremes the diverse transitions came to exist.