223,211 Islands, where over 25,000 people live on a total of 69 ZZ. The tradicional Marshallese system of land tenure has been Lired over hundred of years and is peculiarly adapted to our needs: ~n@ narsnallese s ystem of land tenure provides for a_i eventualizties and takes care of the needs of all cof the members o? the Marshallese society. a oe we ue A It is, in coe ePfect, its social security. Under normal conditions mo ene need go nungry for lack of land from which to ivaw 2cod. There are no poor houses or old people's només in the Marsnall Islands. The system provides Por all members of the Marshallese society, each of wnom ts bern into land rights. gd. Totin, ae oO "Land Tenure in the Marshall Islands" in Land Tenure Patterns in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (J. ae¥oing 1233). Pursuant to its obligation under Article 6(1) Of are oe _ YUrusteesniop agreement, the United States has given recognition £0. whe customs oF the inhabitants of the Trust Territory and: aes ts alteres the vraditicnal land tenure system in the Marshall : 55. Our exile from Bikini Atoll for almost thirty yeatsiand our reiocation to Rong a Babe has head and continues to have severe adverse effects upon tt eenesicn, 2 social structure, and morale of our originally vi weesunicy community. =5, On November 9, 1956, at a meeting with our community. debe on “ii: Zsiand, Deimas 4. the then-High Commissioner of the Trust Territor > Nuesker, “abet tcld us that the United States Governmentaa antifihh 8 y the United States, and when it became safe again, we could return. . OR internal eyes nO « Responding to our pleas, in late 1966 the then-Secretary