Whatever happened to once coastal Kadazans?
THE earliest recording of interaction between Europeans and natives in Papar, on the West Coast of Sabah appears to be in the late 19th Century (late 1800s) with the natives clearly identifying themselves as members of the ‘Kadazan’ ethnic group and not members of the “Dusun’ ethnic group despite similarities in language, culture and dress.
Source: dailyexpress.com.my