RESETTLEMENT OF PEOPLE 948 continued NOVEMBER 2 Kili: The total Sikini com- are relocated from squalid shacks in the munity of 184 seople arrives cn Kili after a 7-month stay on Kwajalein. Fili cwith .36 sq. stile of land) “as advan- Kwajalein Island labor camp nearthe U. stands of quality coconut trees for on Ebeye for 370 people. S. military installation to Ebeye Island three miles away. The Navy constructs frame houses, cook houses and outhouses tages of good agricultural soil and copra export. ?rior to World war ‘iI, the Japanese had used the island as a Kwajalein: Until 1958, the. Kwajalein Navy Station's primary functions are in supporting the nuclear testing at Ene- copra plantation. The Islanc'’s drawbacks include a lack of lagoon or protected anchorage. The full force of the wetak and Bikini. ocean pounds Kili from November through 1952 Ujelang: The people make repeated May, halting fishing and isolating the island. Because the Bikinians were requests for sail cloth and paint for upkeep, repair and operation of their sailing canoes, as well as fishing ret material and fish hooks, but their srcers do not arrive on the field trip used to gathering fish from a protected lagoon with their nets, spears and out- tigger canoes, the new Kili environment causes many problems. snips. ",.-30th the Bikini and Fnewe- “OCTOBER Ujelang: A U.S. Navy LST takes the 149 Ujelang people to a point 100 tak people rave been relocated on miies farther away other land that.has been ceeded to them and have been civen cconsiderable assistance in their resettlement and readjustment.” U. S. Representative Benjamin Gerig to che U. N. Trusteeshic Council, 1356. 1949 Ujelang: bomb test as part of Operation IVY. DECEMBER Ujelang: A special field trip shic arrives, but brings only enough Saiicioth for two canoes. 5 out of 13 for lack unusable are canoes Sailing of sails. The long awaited order of marire paint for wooden hulls was The Enewetak vecple liv- "Edited with ten gallons of red paint ang on Ujelang are totally dependent on the infrequent ‘every 3-6 months or -onger) and unreliable Trust Territory field trip vessels for food and other needs. for tetal and 16 quarts of enamel] beled "for garden furniture." the cther materials la- Few of can be used, dis-. appeinting the people who planned to paint the canoes after the copra nar- Vast distances (640 =:iles to the District Center at Majure, 410 miles to Kwajalein and 290 miles to the closest inhabited atoll, Ujae) prevent Marshallese craft from sailing to Ujelang to pick up copra or to supply trade vest. “Canoes and fishing are the life of Ujelang. Without the canoes we cannot get to the other islands in the lagoon to harvest cecconuts. Without the fishing equipment, we cannot catch fish to get enough to eat.” An Enewetak Iroij (chief). goods. 1951 JANUARY Kili: The 40-foot ship pro- cided for the Bikinians by tne adminisceration is washed into the Kili reef by c&he heavy surf and sinks with a full toad of copra. Rough seas and a shortmage of vessels cause food supplies. to yun critically low more than once from md951 to 1953, even necessitating an air 1954 Kwajalein: The Navy Station eaplove. 226 Marshallese, only 32 of whom are from Kwajalein Atoll. The popula- drop of emergency rations at one point. ‘e from Enewetak, which ig to be the site of the first hydrogen JANUARY Kwajalein: About 550 Marshallese (continued on page 13) q¢