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was
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:
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responsible for the protection and
Bikini people.
weil-being of theAmerican
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and culturally destructive to tne Biying
For us many anthropologists have
mew weapon, For Your Own Saely,
Gncervag, there is among Micronesian
peopies a profound, mystical attach-
will oe moved lo anotner Pisce.
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were through using your atoll, We
.
will bring you back.
men: to ‘he particular. tiny plots of
families or clans.
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omst Robert Kiste, auAnthropol
Few now question that the Navy
thor of “The B:kimans: A Study in
had the iega! ment io apprepnate Bi-
Kant ALO.t 1Or MuIary PAPUses.
Forced Mizrauon.’ sad in an inter-
whien is part of Micronesa.
lanas,
whicn in lum was cslablisaed oF 4
cent
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view that the relationship between a
Bixzm1s part of the ofarshall Is-
h:3 land overrides the conpian OFandNawal.
“To sav. ‘I'm Marchallese,’ that is a
foreign concept Este said “Westthose islands the Marerners named
ais So ‘Marshallese’ has less;
U.N. Trust Terrtery under United
States administration ny terms of tne
Charter of 1945.
United Nations
Snecificaily. it was designated @
meaning than ‘I'm Bikiman,’ And
“strategic trust,” wnicn permitted the
. they speak not of |{
areas of the former Japanese manaa‘e¢
among themselves
pain g Bikinians, but say, ‘I'm a person
Bikini seemed a logical choice
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Umted States to set aside cerlain
of snag particular piece of land.’ Land
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the promise
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said. “His promise is not kept.”
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of it was the atiituge. “Well, (ney (the
Reiparstarecu s btth prawn pe ple
Bon Wyatt, then tne murtary governor, arrived by seaplane and an-
“Tre American is a lar-man” he
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cise!”
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posuon to seriously ofnese the Novy
wrep, on Fea. Wu, Toit, Cammacore
American.
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throuen umick green-tinied gterses
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fuel. Unat the guesuoner Was an
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