<Li> settlement of Pacific islands by Polynesian people, including Native Hawaiians, Samoans, the Chamorro people in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands . </Li> <Li> settlement of Puerto Rico by the Taíno people . </Li> <Li> settlement of the United States Virgin Islands by the Ciboney, Carib, and Arawaks . </Li> <Li> Colonization <Ul> <Li> Colonization of what is now eastern Canada and the area between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River as New France . Historical events, including the Expulsion of the Acadians, influenced the ethnic mix, especially in Louisiana, northern New England and New York State . </Li> <Li> Colonization of the Thirteen Colonies by the Dutch, British, and later immigrants such as Germans from northern Europe . </Li> <Li> Spanish colonization of the Americas, including Florida, the Southwest, and Puerto Rico, later acquired by the US . </Li> <Li> Denmark and other historical colonial powers influenced the ethnic makeup of what are now the United States Virgin Islands . </Li> </Ul> </Li>

Which of these categories of the u.s. population would not be considered a minority