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Websites
Historical photo archives and seminar topics about Marshallese and other MIcronesian people and culture. A great site for educational and cultural information. http://www.micsem.org

More historical and current photo archives and chat rooms about all things Marshallese. http://yokwe.net

The Marshallese museum located in Majuro. http://members.tripod.com/~alelemuseum/Index.html

Geographical, historical, and cultural information in an encyclopedia format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands


The Republic of Marshall Islands Embassy to the U.S. at Majuro. http://www.rmiembassyus.org

An overview of the culture, geography, government and economy.
Marshall Islands Digital Archive and Library

News, information and community matters. http://www.mymicronesia.com/marshallislands

Tourism, fishing and diving information. http://www.destmic.com/marshall.html

Literacy Resource Center: An Electronic Library and Archive. http://www.literacynet.org/marshall

General island life. Jane's Marshall Islands Home Page 

Books
The Marshall Islands 1944 : Operation Flintlock, the capture of Kwajalein and Eniwetok
by Gordan Rottman, Howard Gerrard (Illustrator) 2004

Strangers in Their Own Land: A Century of Colonial Rule in the Caroline and Marshall Islands
(Pacific Islands Monograph Ser. 13) by Francis X. Hezel
2003

The New Shape of Old Island Cultures: A Half Century of Social Change in Micronesia by Francis X. Hezel 2001

Melal: A Novel of the Pacific by Robert Barclay 2002

Marshall Island Legends and Stories by Daniel A. Klein II, Nashton T. Nashon
2003

Nuclear Nativity: Rituals of Renewal and Empowerment in the Marshall Islands by Laurence Marshall Carucci 1997

VHS Movies
Radio Bikini
Produced and directed by Robert Stone, Radio Bikini is a sensational, eye opening film. Radio Bikini recounts the almost too terrifying to be true tradgedy surrounding the Bikini Island "A" Bomb test operations, which were, ironically, to be promoted as the biggest news story of the century. Using rare, never-before-seen archival footage, Radio Bikini unfolds through the eyes of the elderly Chief of the Bikinians and includes comments by a former American serviceman who was there [he died of cancer shortly before the film's completion]. Radio Bikini combines "live" radio broadcasts from Bikini in 1946 with footage of the event as it happened, creating an effect that is both haunting and surreal.
http://www.bikiniatoll.com

Bikini: Forbidden Paradise
This film tells the story of the Bikinian people, the U.S. nuclear testing, and also has some of the best underwater footage ever shot of the USS Saratoga aircraft carrier, and the Japanese Flagship, the Nagato, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's floating fortress from where he launched the attack on Pearl Harbor in WWII.
http://www.bikiniatoll.com

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