Description and History: 1526-1972 RADIOLOGICAL CLEANUP OF ENEWETAK ATOLL 23 ee nee ee ee 22 FIGURE 1-27. TYPICAL OUTRIGGER CANOE OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS. FIGURE 1-26. A FAMILY GROUP IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS. settlement pattern of both communities was dispersed; residences were one or a few of its largest islands. The second is a mobility that is demonstrated by various extended fishing and collecting activities that embrace every niche of the environment. For example, they have a nonintensive form of agriculture in which regular expeditions are made to all islands of an atoll to make copra and collect coconuts, breadfruit, pandanus, arrowroot, and other vegetable foods in season. Clearing of brush and planting are done during these visits. Marine resources are also exploited, with a wide variety of marine animals being utilized. Special The sociopolitical structure of the two communities was identical. Each was headed bya hereditary iroij or chief, and succession to the office was patrilineal. The chiefs directed the affairs of their respective communities, arbitrated disputes, and consulted one another with regard to concerns of the entire atoll and the total population’s relations with outsiders. The atoll eggs, in addition to catching fish. Several species of birds are also captured authority over one of the two domains. The domain of the Enewetak chief located on separate land parcels and were scattered along the length of the lagoon beach.?4 was divided into two geographical areas, and each of the chiefs had expeditions are madeto collect shellfish, capture turtles, and gather their began with the Islands of Kidrenen (Keith), Ribewon UJames), Boken (Irwin), Mut (Henry), and Ikuren (Glenn) in the atoll’s southwest as a food source. The Enewetak people may be expected to continuethis community was situated primarily on Enjebi (Janet) Island on the northern rim, and the other was located primarily on Enewetak Island across the lagoon in the southeast quadrant ofthe atoll. The traditional og eee ee western culture.2! The typical outrigger canoe of the Marshallese is shown in Figure 1-27. Historically, the people of Enewetak have been divided into two separate and distinct communities which were located on the two largest islands of the atoll. Here ‘‘community”’ is defined as the maximum group of persons who normally reside together in face-to-face association. One . they may remain strongly influenced in many ways by their contacts with a way oflife to some degree when they return to their home atoll, although quadrant, extended counterclockwise around the atoll up to and including Runit (Yvonne) Island, as well as Aomon (Sally) on the northeast rim. With the exception of Aomon, the Enjebi chief's domain extended north with Billae (Wilma) Island and extended nit beginning the atolls northern and western rim up to an around counterclockwise including Biken (Leroy) Island.?2 Relations between the two communities and the traditional dispersed pattern of residence were altered with the military invasion of Enewetak Atoll in 1944. Because Enewetak and Enjebi Islands had been devastated by the battle for the atoll, the U.S. Navy resettled all of the people in a