To browse Academia. There have been so many absolutely amazing people who have been the impetus behind this proj ect and truly facilitated its development that it is nearly impossible to list every one individually.
I hope to learn so much more from you all. And to Talien and the Ejit community, thank you for letting me stay at your house and on your land, and inviting me to the practices, to church, and to other community festivities.
Again, I can't begin to communicate how much I have learned from you. While this is by no means an exhaustive list, I must also sincerely.
The tests and scientific and medical programs were shrouded in secrecy; information about the tests conducted on Marshallese bodies and their lands remains largely classified. I conducted ethnographic work from through in what is now the Republic of the Marshall Islands RMI , politically autonomous from the United States since , and in northwest Arkansas and southwest Missouri from onwards.
Marshallese will often note that they do not have a written history; rather, they rely on their voices to interactively share their oral histories in story and song. My Marshallese interlocutors living in the RMI and US stress the value of collecting these dynamic oral histories as well as utilizing them for pedagogical purposes and in platforms for social justice at events like the annual Nuclear Remembrance Day ceremonies.
