UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII» HONOLULU, HAWAII 96822 DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 2550 CAMPUS ROAD February 24, 1967 RL Mr. William Bonne Manager . Atomic Energy Commission 531 Ohohia . P. 0. Box 580 Honolulu, Hawaii Att: Mr. Neil Rasmussen Dear Mr. Bonnet: Enclosed are some articles and a bibliography of things written about the Bikini Marshallese as I have studied their adjustment to other environments since resettlement from Bikini in 1946. I have spoken to Mr. Rasmussen recently on the phone in regard to the proposed resurvey of Bikini by the University of Washington group headed by Mr. Held, and promised to send along what I have on hand relative to this group. I am engaged this spring in final revision of a 525—-page manuscript on the Resettlement of the Bikini Marshallese, which covers their history from preevacuation days in 1946 through their residences on Rongerik and Kwajalein to their present location on Kili. This first study goes only to 1950, which is approximately the time the Navy Department gave over administration of the Trust Territory (and the Bikini Marshallese) to the Department of the Interior. It is based on brief visits with the group at Rongerik in early 1948 when I made a survey of their situation at the request of the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory; at Kwajalein a few months before they departed for Kili, in 1948; and in late 1949 after they had made a brief adjustment to the new island, This study contains as complete a review of their pre-evacuation status on Bikini as is possible to reconstruct, since very few records were kept by the Navy of the situation then. I spent the entire summer of 1957 and again 1963 with the group on Kili, and a graduate student from University of Oregon (Robert Kiste, now at University of Minnesota) stayed on after I left in 1963 for four more months. This material which includes the administration's attempt at a Kili Development program in 1953- 55, will be the subject of a second book, to be started next fall. @ During a recent visit to Majuro (February 6-17, 1967) I discussed the possi- bility of a return to Bikini for the commnity with District Administrator Dwight Heine, since I had heard that a resurvey had been requested by the High Commissioner. Mr. Heine indicated that some plans were being laid in that direction, and that he hoped I might be of use to the administration at such time as a decision was pend- ing. REPOSITeRY /Ppso courction— DOE BOX Ne. - 4 / ey BiKjwi- A sre FOLDER Atkin