Marshallese in the News 

Heavy out-migration underlines economic conditions in Marshall Islands   https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/479206/heavy-out-migration-underlines-economic-conditions-in-marshall-islands

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Marshall Islands confirms membership in Pacific Forum     https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/478110/marshall-islands-confirms-membership-in-pacific-forum

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Marshall Islands demands US tackle nuclear issues          https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2022/11/02/2003788135 

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Pacific nuclear legacy overshadows US talks in Marshall Islands         https://www.rawstory.com/pacific-nuclear-legacy-overshadows-us-talks-in-marshall-islands/

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How do we mourn an island?  Where do we mark it's grave?  by Kathy Jetnil-Kijner     https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/02/how-do-we-mourn-an-island-where-do-we-mark-its-grave

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The remote Marshall Islands complicate US Pacific policy     https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/the-remote-marshall-islands-complicate-us-pacific-policy

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The Supply Side: Walmart’s Great Value tuna helps support Marshall Islands   https://talkbusiness.net/2022/10/the-supply-side-walmarts-great-value-tuna-helps-support-marshall-islands/

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Pacific Islands Increasingly Used as Crime Transit Point, Experts Say      https://www.voanews.com/a/pacific-islands-increasingly-used-as-crime-transit-point-experts-say-/6804371.html

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Preliminary census results in the Marshall Islands show poverty worry   https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/477097/preliminary-census-results-in-the-marshall-islands-show-poverty-worry

 

Haunted By 67 Nuclear Tests, US Facing Severe Roadblocks To Renew COFA Pact With Marshall Islands            https://eurasiantimes.com/haunted-by-67-nuclear-tests-us-facing-severe-roadblocks-to-renew-cofa-pact-with-marshall-islands/

 

Nuclear Powers Have Criticized an Effort Led by the Marshall Islands at the United Nations     https://www.latestly.com/socially/world/nuclear-powers-have-criticized-an-effort-led-by-the-marshall-islands-at-the-united-nations-latest-tweet-by-reuters-4290609.html

 

Canoe exhibit connects Mississippi River to Marshall Islands      https://www.telegraphherald.com/news/article_fc660b9f-50c7-5e7a-95a6-0aaa6d7a862e.html 

 

Australian Foreign Minister visits Majuro, Nauru         https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/476580/australian-foreign-minister-visits-majuro-nauru

 

UNHRC adopts resolution on Marshall Islands' nuclear legacy      https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/476423/unhrc-adopts-resolution-on-marshall-islands-nuclear-legacy 

 

Australia opens embassy in Marshall Islands to gain foothold in Pacific     https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/476423/unhrc-adopts-resolution-on-marshall-islands-nuclear-legacy  https://www.laprensalatina.com/australia-opens-embassy-in-marshall-islands-to-gain-foothold-in-pacific/

 

Nuclear Powers Have Criticized an Effort Led by the Marshall Islands at the United Nations     https://www.latestly.com/socially/world/nuclear-powers-have-criticized-an-effort-led-by-the-marshall-islands-at-the-united-nations-latest-tweet-by-reuters-4290609.html

 

U.S. Targets Singapore, Marshall Islands Firms in New North Korea Sanctions        https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-10-07/u-s-targets-singapore-marshall-islands-based-firms-in-new-north-korea-sanctions 

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US has agreed Pacific Islands deal, offering ‘big dollar numbers’       https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/29/us-has-agreed-pacific-islands-deal-offering-big-dollar-numbers

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Defiance by Marshall Islands and Solomon Islands cast shadow over Biden’s Pacific Summit    https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/28/pacific-island-nations-biden-china-00059190

 

Biden vows U.S. commitment to Pacific Islands at summit        https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/09/29/breaking-news/biden-vows-u-s-commitment-to-pacific-islands-at-summit/
 

Marshall Islands calls off talks after no US response on nuclear legacy plan [by Giff Johnson]   https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/475398/marshall-islands-calls-off-talks-after-no-us-response-on-nuclear-legacy-plan

Drowning island nations: ‘This is how a Pacific atoll dies’         https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-drowning-island-nations-75f5390daf98d1d385da7dd4a869ae09

At U.N., Micronesia denounces Japan plan to release Fukushima water into Pacific
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/at-un-micronesia-denounces-japan-plan-to-release-fukushima-water-into-pacific/ar-AA128Ldl

Marshallese Language Primer    pdf file

Biden’s Pacific Island summit tests U.S. regional credibility https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-china-watcher/2022/09/22/bidens-pacific-island-summit-tests-u-s-regional-credibility-00058136 

Marshall Islands President: We must tame 'climate change monster'   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/marshall-islands-head-we-must-tame-climate-change-monster/ar-AA123SFZ

Marshall Islands urges U.S. to better address nuclear legacy, climate at U.N.G.A.   https://www.reuters.com/world/marshall-islands-urges-us-better-address-nuclear-legacy-climate-2022-09-20/

Tyson Foods donates 50,000 masks to Marshall Islands amid COVID-19 outbreak
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/tyson-foods-donates-50000-masks-to-marshall-islands-amid-covid-19-outbreak/ar-AA11V355

Ex-President Hilda Heine Demands Inquiry Into RMI 'Mini-State' Plot   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/08/call-investigation-marshall-islands-chinese-couple-alleged-plot-mini-state?amp;amp;amp

The Long Road to Nuclear Justice for the Marshall Islanders    https://www.facingsouth.org/2021/04/long-road-nuclear-justice-marshallese-people 

The Cost of Fleeing Climate Change for the Marshallese    https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-cost-of-fleeing-climate-change-marshall-islands-arkansas

Jellyfish Babies - Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner  https://www.uterish.com/blog/jellyfishbabies

Marshallese in Arkansas: From the islands to the Ozarks    https://onlyinark.com/culture/marshallese-in-arkansas-from-the-islands-to-the-ozarks/

Marshallese in Arkansas: Histories of the South    https://www.arncta.com/aapi-histories-south/marshallese

Marshallese Community in Enid [OK] Traces History to Cold War N-Testing    https://www.enidnews.com/news/marshallese-community-in-enid-traces-history-to-cold-war-testing/article_69aa6934-14c3-11e8-96e3-537c74e87e86.html -

Marshallese community in Enid, Oklahoma - From the islands to Enid
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/columns/2017/10/15/from-the-islands-to-enid/60564194007/

Giff Johnson on nuclear testing     https://www.infomarshallislands.com/6229-2/ 

Univ. of Arkansas' excellent research guide   https://uark.libguides.com/Marshallese/AR_History 

April Brown on nuclear testing in the RMI    https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2013_03/No-Promised-Land-The-Shared-Legacy-of-the-Castle-Bravo-Nuclear-Test%20

The U.S. Should Apologize to the Marshall Islands for it's Nuclear Tests https://thediplomat.com/2021/04/the-us-should-apologize-to-the-marshall-islands-for-nuclear-tests/

Marshalls-US to Hold First Person-to Person talks by Giff Johnson    https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/468575/marshalls-us-to-hold-first-in-person-compact-talks

Rural Oklahoma Marshallese health report     https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/rural-monitor/marshallese-chws/

Marshallese culture    https://marshallese-manit.org/

Marshallese Americans (Wikipedia)    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshallese_Americans

Pacific islands a key US military buffer     https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2022/09/21/2003785691

Spokane WA Marshallese Community      https://anthropology.washington.edu/news/2021/03/17/how-legacy-nuclear-testing-marshall-islands-still-affects-spokanes-marshallese

The U.S. is Squandering its COFA Advantage in the Pacific      https://thediplomat.com/2022/02/the-us-is-squandering-its-cofa-advantage-in-the-pacific/

Imperial Migration from the Marshall Islands to Northwest Arkansas, Ph.D. Dissertation by Emily Mitchell-Eaton   pdf file

They Did Not Realize We Were Human Beings - Enid OK    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/01/26/marshall-islands-iowa-medicaid-103940

The Ethnography of Destabilization:  Pacific Islanders in the Nuclear Age by Glenn Alcalay     pdf file 

How Years of Ruthless Nuclear Testing in the South Pacific Forged America’s Most Impoverished Ethnic Group     https://narratively.com/how-years-of-ruthless-nuclear-testing-in-the-south-pacific-forged-americas-most-impoverished-ethnic-group/

How the legacy of nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands still affects Spokane’s Marshallese community      https://anthropology.washington.edu/news/2021/03/17/how-legacy-nuclear-testing-marshall-islands-still-affects-spokanes-marshallese

France denies covering-up nuclear tests near French Polynesia in Pacific      https://www.rawstory.com/france-denies-covering-up-nuclear-tests-near-french-polynesia-in-pacific/

Marshallese Language Primer    pdf file