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Children at Play
#20… NATIVE CHILDREN play outside building where native leaders and local Trust Territory representatives confer. The children, here, on the Pacific island of Ebeye, will soon be repatriated to their home island of Rongelap. The island was evacuated…
Richard J. Umhofer
A FINAL BRIEFING is given the natives of the small Pacific island of Rongelap, prior to there repatriation from the island of Ebeye. Richard J. Umhofer, local representative in the Kwjalein-Ebeye area for the Trust Territory’s District Administrator,…
Martin the Translator
A MARSHALLESE NATIVE known only as “Martin” (right) translates the instructions of Richard J. Umhofer, local representative of the District Administrator, Marshall Islands, for native leaders on Ebeye. This was the natives’ final briefing before the…
Elders Listening
NATIVE WOMEN sit on the floor as an interpreter for the representative of the District Administrator, Marshall Islands, answers a question asked by one of the women. They were receiving their final briefing on the Pacific Island of Ebeye, just before…
Curiosity of Children
CHILDREN’S CURIOSITY is aroused as their elders confer with the District Administrator’s Representative on the island of Ebeye in the Marshall Islands. They are preparing for their repatriation to the island of Rongelap which was evacuated when…
Children & Tank
#26… FOUR NATIVE CHILDREN stand beside a wrecked tank on the rock-and-wreck strewn beach they use for a play rea on the Pacific island of Ebeye. They are waiting to be repatriated to the island of Rongelap, which was evacuated in March 1954, when an…
Sealed Casket
#11… A sealed casket carrying one of the five dead disinterred at Ejit for reburial at Rongelap, is swing aboard TLST 618 while it was moored at Uliga, Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands.
Loading Livestock
#5… Plutarch M. Sideris, of Honolulu T.H., extension agriculturalists for the U.S. Trust Territory, helps residents of Ejit Island, Marshalls, load pigs into a crate for shipping to Rongelap.
Transporting Their Ancestors
#4… Residents of Ejit disinter their dead for transport to Rongelap and reburial.
Vacated Home
#16… A TEMOPORARY HOME on the small Pacific island of Ebeye, which will soon be vacated when its occupants return to their home island of Rongelap. The Marshallese were evacuated from Rongelap in March, 1954, when an impossible to predict shift of…
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I Trongkon Chotda
A CHamoru story about the banana tree, followed by an instructional portion in CHamoru of how to make banana doughnuts and fried bananas.