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The people of Kila originally
The United States government asked these
people to leave Bikini so that an atomic bomb cculd be tested,
United States promised to find them another Home,
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The Bikini people
accepted the offer and were removed from the atoll.
After subsequent
minor tries at finding a home, which failed because of land ownership
reasons and inability of the chosen atoll to sustain "extra" life,
Killi was decided upon,
An agricultural and island improvement program
prepared the island for its new inhabitants.
That was twenty years ago.
Since then a typhoon and neglect have marked the lives of these people,
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KILI IS NOT SUITED TO THE MARSHALLESS WAY OF LIFE. The "staff of
life" for the former. Bikini people is a lazcon.
There is none at Kili.
It is an island surrounded by high waves that make their lives very exasperating, unstable, and perilous.
To get their outrigeer canoes
over the wives is a danrer I see them face daily.
If they do "bcat the
waves", they then face the problem of catching fish,
A lagoon provides
fish, turtles, clams, lobster; in the ocean they rely solely on fish.
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The efforts at catching fish are tremendous; The returns are slim,
Many days no fish are caught at all!
We con sympathize with their
fishing hazards here on Kili and see the advantages of a lagoon,
especially since we trained on Udot in the Truk lagoon.
Not only having to contend with the forces of nature, the Kili
people are at the whims of the captains of the supoly ships.
trip ships come about once every three months.
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The shins are from
Majuro; they sell food, kerosene, and other supplies to the people of
tha outer islands as well as pick us the island's copra.
are too biz abl Kit, RET)
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If the waves
The cepra roils and the peapto
are unableto buy rood and kerosene.
A ship arrived at Kili, Wednesday, Noverber 15, at 7:00 P.M. It
was too dark to do mich work; it's hard
tne daytime.
At 5:00 A.M.
enough fighting the ocean in
on the 16th, I was awakened to the news that
the ship would be leaving soon, but the ship's outboard would make one
last trip.!
On board the ship, I argued with the captain to stay, out
his only concern was maintaining his schedule and preventing his boat
from being
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