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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…
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…
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…
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…
Inoculation
ONE OF THE NATIVE LEADRES on the small Pacific island of Ebeye holds a small Marshallese girl during her inoculation prior to her repatriation to the island of Rongelap. The island was evacuated in march, 1954, when an impossible-to-predict shift of…
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.
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…
Residents of Ebeye
PEARL HARBOR, T.H…… July 1…..Residents of Ebeye enroute to Kwajalein by Navy landing craft, where they boarded TLST 618 for transport to Rongelap. (OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO)
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,…
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.
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Hafa Na Kulot - Kulot di Rosa
An educational resource to teach children the color pink using the CHamoru language and examples associated with the color.