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.
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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,
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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.
.
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eyes
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Responding to our pleas, in late 1966 the then-Secretary