"IT appreciate bringing in the Human Relations Team as well as the scientific team of Loma Linda University. This is very important to us particularly. The Western world does not always understand us and our culture. They may mean well, but they are often unsuccessful because, as I told the Trust Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands Commissioner, ‘The problem of the T.T.P.I. in the past has been planning for people instead of planning with people.'" There are 33 senators in the Marshallese Parliament (The Nitifela), usually one from each atoll except where there is a concentration population. Kwajalein, for instance, elects three senators: Arno 2; and so forth. 10 ministries in the government, and there should be obviously 10 the President is responsible for Affairs, so that leaves 9. There are flinisters, but the portfolio of the Ministér of Foreign There is also an important council] of chiefs, a council of iroij, which has 12 chiefs who come from the major digtricts of the Marshall Islands. The House of Iroij receives the bilis from the Jegislature in order to look at them and then examine them carefully to see if thefe is anything that conflicts with the Marshallese customs and traditions and the things that affect land and land tenure. change; it is It it is Something serious, they is nothing serious, they will will recommend return it to the I@gislature for final approval. In other words, when the Marshal] Islands modernized th@ir system of government, they agreed that some official body of leaders would have to be chosen to safeguard the country's traditions, customs, d culture. Consequently, they created the House of Iroij. E. Religion and Values In 1852 the Boston Mission Society sent four missionaries fo Micronesia. These, however, did not establish themselves in the Marshall Islands. In 1857 a reverend Doane together with his wife settled on the atoll] off Ebon. It is reported that by 1865 he had converted 125 of the 750 inhabitants pf the island. From this beginning missionary activities slowly progressed ovar the various atolls and islands so that by the turn of the centruy the popdlation of the islands were mostly Congregationai Christians. In talking with the Marshallese about their old traditional r@ligion, no one could be found with authentic accounts of old religious beliefg. however, clear evidence of what the Marshallese themselves now calf There was, superstition