"bus kanaka" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1965, The Papua-New Guinea Elections 1964",
          "text": "... for some more sophisticated coastal people there was merely the shame at being led by a bush kanaka, ..."
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          "ref": "1999, Eric Hirsh, Colonial Units and Ritual Units: Historical Transformations of Persons and Horizons in Highland Papua in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 41, No. 4",
          "text": "Fuyuge men recount with humor their initial encounters with life in Port Moresby during the 1950s. They speak of travelling to the coast in their bark-cloths and realising upon their arrival that they were inappropriately dressed: “We immediately felt bus kanaka [wild, uncivilized].”"
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          "text": "2002, Terry O'Farrell, Behind Enemy Lines\nSam’s blues and boots disappeared into his small backpack, his beret was pushed back onto the head at a very jaunty angle and the .303 was slung carelessly over the shoulder. A torn pair of shorts completed the ensemble. In the twinkling of an eye, the immaculate policeman was transformed into a ragged bush kanaka..."
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          "text": "2004, K. O. L. Burridge, Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium\nManam islanders knew Mambu: but they could not admit to being led or influenced by a mere bush-Kanaka."
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          "text": "2005, Nancy Sullivan,My Weblog: Stories about living in Papua New Guinea, November 5 http://nancysullivan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/11/11_win_nasin.html\nDo you see development here? Are you living like white men? No! We’re still living like bus kanaka."
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          "text": "Fuyuge men recount with humor their initial encounters with life in Port Moresby during the 1950s. They speak of travelling to the coast in their bark-cloths and realising upon their arrival that they were inappropriately dressed: “We immediately felt bus kanaka [wild, uncivilized].”"
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      "word": "bush kanaka"
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