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Introduction to Northern Mariana Islands

Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
ISBN 13 : 2232309398
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Northern Mariana Islands written by Gilad James, PhD and published by Gilad James Mystery School. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northern Mariana Islands is a U.S. commonwealth located in the western Pacific Ocean. The archipelago consists of 15 islands, including the islands of Saipan, Tinian, and Rota. The islands cover a total area of approximately 179 square miles, and they are located to the northeast of Guam. The islands are a popular tourist destination, known for their beautiful beaches and thriving coral reefs. The indigenous people of the Northern Mariana Islands are known as the Chamorro people, and they have a rich cultural heritage with a history that stretches back thousands of years. The Northern Mariana Islands have a unique political status as a U.S. commonwealth. This means that the islands are self-governing, but they still maintain a close relationship with the United States. The islands have their own government, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, which has its own constitution and system of laws. The islands also have a representative in the U.S. House of Representatives, but they do not have voting representation in the U.S. Senate. The economy of the islands is largely driven by tourism, as well as by the garment industry and agriculture. The islands also have a significant military presence, with strategic locations and bases on the islands.

Tiempon I Manmofo'na

Author : Scott Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tiempon I Manmofo'na written by Scott Russell and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the Mariana Islands

Author : S J
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935198956
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book History of the Mariana Islands written by S J and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histoire des isles Marianes (History of the Mariana Islands), was published in Paris in 1700 with authorship attributed to French Jesuit priest Charles Le Gobien, S.J. It provides a detailed glimpse into a tumultuous and critically significant period in the history of the Mariana Islands and the CHamoru people--the period commonly referred to as the CHamoru-Spanish Wars. It includes detailed accounts of the first 30 years of the Jesuit mission in the Marinas. It also features speeches by CHamoru chiefs, including the famous speech by Maga'låhi Hurao that is etched onto the wall at the entrance of the Guam Museum. Using research conducted in several national and international archives in Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, and at the Richard F. Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center in Guam, Alexandre Coello de la Rosa produced this English translation of the first Spanish edition of Le Gobien's text. This present edition also stems from a manuscript preserved in the Arxiu de la Companyia de Jesus a Catalunya archive in Barcelona, with authorship attributed to Spanish Jesuit priest Luis de Morales, S.J., who had been part of the Jesuit mission to the Marianas in the late 1600s. Thus, this text calls into question Le Gobien's authorship. This edition opens with an in-depth introduction analyzing the context of the publication's history, as well as its significance over time. The book also features annotated notes that expand the narrative by providing details about the history of the Jesuit mission in the Marianas.

The Scientific Bases for Preservation of the Mariana Crow

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309175240
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Scientific Bases for Preservation of the Mariana Crow written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-03-07 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, while focusing on current preservation challenges posed by the Aga, or Mariana crow, also reflects the larger issues and challenges of biodiversity conservation in all oceanic island ecosystems. It evaluates causes for the continuing decline of the Aga, which exists on only the two southernmost islands in the Mariana archipelago, Guam and Rota, and reviews actions to halt or reverse the decrease. This book reminds us of the importance and challenge of preserving the unique environmental heritage of islands of the Mariana archipelago, the need for increased knowledge to restore and maintain native species and habitats, and the compelling and lasting value of extensive public education to stimulate environmentally informed public policy development.

Northern Mariana Islands History, and Mariana Islands Unification Attempt

Author : Leo Abbott
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533692986
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book Northern Mariana Islands History, and Mariana Islands Unification Attempt written by Leo Abbott and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Northern Mariana Islands, Culture of Northern Mariana Islands, tourism in Northern Mariana Islands, environment and tradition in Northern Mariana Islands, Introduction: The original inhabitants and dominant ethnic group of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (The full information on Northern Mariana Island, title" Northern Mariana Islands History, and Mariana Islands unification attempt" has the full detail)(all the Marianas except Guam) in western Micronesia refer to themselves as Chamorros ( tsamoros ). The term chamorri was used to designate the upper caste at the time of Magellan's arrival in 1521. The Spaniards heard this as chamurres and understood it to mean "friend." By 1668

Introduction to Northern Mariana Islands

Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
ISBN 13 : 8980745079
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Saipan, a Brief History

Author : Don Farrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780930839055
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Saipan, a Brief History written by Don Farrell and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-19 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-made 112-page, 8 x 10 booklet tells the history of Saipan, capitol island of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in both text and illustrations.The 2018 edition features 274 illustrations and photographs in both black and white and full color. In a concise and accurate format, Marianas historian Don Farrell takes the reader from the roots of the indigenous Chamorros and Carolinians of Saipan, through their experiences with the Spanish, German and Japanese administrations to a graphic review of the island's role during World War II. The last sections discuss the postwar Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the birth and growth of the Commonwealth. The last sixteen pages provide a full-color representation of Saipan today, featuring not only island dignitaries but also the beauty of the island and its people.

Vegetation of the Tropical Pacific Islands

Author : Dieter Mueller-Dombois
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441986863
Total Pages : 905 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Vegetation of the Tropical Pacific Islands written by Dieter Mueller-Dombois and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the leading authorities on the plant diversity and ecology of the Pacific islands, this book is a magisterial synthesis of the vegetation and landscapes of the islands of the Pacific Ocean. It is organized by island group, and includes information on geography, geology, phytogeographic relationships, and human influences on vegetation. Vegetation of the Tropical Pacific Islands features over 400 color photographs, plus dozens of maps and climate diagrams. The authors’ efforts in assembling the existing information into an integrated, comprehensive book will be welcomed by biogeographers, plant ecologists, conservation biologists, and all scientists with an interest in island biology.

Saipan

Author : Don A. Farrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780930839031
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Saipan written by Don A. Farrell and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marianas Island Legends

Author :
Publisher : Bess Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573061018
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Marianas Island Legends written by and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering rare insight to Chamorro and Carolinian cultures, this book contains legends, poems, folklore, history, traditions, rhymes and riddles, and scary stories collected from the elders and the youth of the Marianas Islands.

History of the Mariana Islands

Author : Luis de Morales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935198093
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book History of the Mariana Islands written by Luis de Morales and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histoire des isles Marianes (History of the Mariana Islands), written in Paris in 1700, provides a detailed glimpse into a tumultuous and critically significant period in the history of the Mariana Islands and the Chamorro people - the period commonly referred to as the CHamoru-Spanish Wars.Using research conducted in several national and international archives in Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, and at the Richard F. Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center in Guam, Alexandre Coello de la Rosa produced this English translation of the first Spanish edition (Madrid, 2013) of the Histoire des isles Marianes (Paris, 1700), by Charles Le Gobien. This present edition stems from a manuscript preserved in the Arxiu de la Companyia de Jesus a Catalunya, in Barcelona, attributed to Father Luis de Morales, who had been part of the Jesuit mission to the Marianas. Thus, this text calls into question the authorship of Father Le Gobien. This book opens with a long introduction analyzing the context of production of the Histoire, together with an annotated edition of the book over ten chapters.

Saipan

Author : Bruce M. Petty
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476613710
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Saipan written by Bruce M. Petty and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle for Saipan is remembered as one of the bloodiest battles fought in the Pacific during World War II, and was a turning point on the road to the defeat of Japan. In this work, the survivors—including Pacific Islanders on whose land the Americans and Japanese fought their war—have the opportunity to tell their stories in their own words. The author offers an introduction to the volume and arranges the oral histories by location—Saipan, Yap and Tinian, Rota, Palau Islands, and Guam—in the first half, and by branch of service in the second half.

Island in the Stream

Author : Michael Lambek
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487519052
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Island in the Stream written by Michael Lambek and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork between 1975 and 2015. Over this 40-year span Mayotte shifted from a declining and neglected colonial backwater to a full département of the French state. In a highly unusual postcolonial trajectory, citizens of Mayotte demanded this incorporation within France rather than joining the independent republic of the Comoros. The Malagasy-speaking Muslim villagers Michael Lambek encountered in 1975 practiced subsistence cultivation and lived without roads, schools, electricity, or running water; today they are educated citizens of the EU who travel regularly to metropolitan France and beyond. Offering a series of ethnographic slices of life across time, Island in the Stream highlights community members' ethical engagement in their own history as they looked to the future, acknowledged the past, and engaged and transformed local forms of sociality, exchange, and ritual performance. This is a unique account of the changing horizons and historical consciousness of an African community and an intimate portrait of the inhabitants and their concerns, as well as a glimpse into the changing perspective of the ethnographer.

Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan

Author : John C. Chapin
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan written by John C. Chapin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Breaching the Marianas" by John C. Chapin is a book about the WWII campaigns and Marine Corps history. The book gives a detailed account of what happened on the Mariana Islands of Saipan during the war. Excerpt: "Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan by Captain John C. Chapin, USMCR (Ret) It was a brutal day. At first light on 15 June 1944, the Navy fire support ships of the task force lying off Saipan Island increased their previous days' preparatory fires involving all calibers of weapons. At 0542, Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner ordered, "Land the landing force." Around 0700, the landing ships, tank (LSTs) moved to within approximately 1,250 yards behind the line of departure. Troops in the LSTs began debarking from them in landing vehicles, tracked (LVTs). Control vessels containing Navy and Marine personnel with their radio gear took their positions displaying flags indicating which beach approaches they controlled."

Micronesian Legends

Author : Bo Flood
Publisher : Bess Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573061247
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Micronesian Legends written by Bo Flood and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells sixty-eight traditional legends of the islands, including creation myths and tales of duhendes, dancing trickster elves of the jungle.

Isles of Amnesia

Author : Mark J. Rauzon
Publisher : Latitude 20
ISBN 13 : 9780824846794
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book Isles of Amnesia written by Mark J. Rauzon and published by Latitude 20. This book was released on 2016-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a quarter century, biologist Mark J. Rauzon worked in the field of island restoration, traveling throughout the American Insular Pacific to eradicate invasive plants and animals introduced by humans. The region spans from Hawai`i to Samoa to Guam, and their neighbors—small, obscure tropical islands that are hundreds, if not thousands, of nautical miles from each other. These little-known US possessions and territories include various islands and atolls: Jarvis, Howland, Baker, the Northern Marianas, Wake, Palmyra, Johnston, and Rose Atoll, among others. They anchor a vast National Marine Monument program created in 2009, and expanded in 2014, to protect the largest area in the world from exploitation. In Isles of Amnesia, Rauzon chronicles the ecological and human history of these islands, enlivened with his first-hand experiences of eradication efforts to restore atoll ecosystems and maximize native biodiversity. Each chapter focuses on an individual island or island group, revealing how each location has its own particular story, secret past, or ecological lesson to be shared. Taken as a whole, the region has played a unique role in American history, with the remoteness of the islands having served the needs of whalers and guano miners in the 1800s and, in later years, that of military secret projects, missile launching, chemical weapon incinerations, and air bases. Rauzon further explores the creation of the National Marine Monuments and what their protection means to a changing ocean, and presents original research about the US military’s Pacific Project and germ warfare testing. Illustrated with over seventy historical photographs and original drawings, this much-needed work tells the fascinating story of America’s forgotten Pacific islands.

Traditional Micronesian Societies

Author : Glenn Petersen
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824832485
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Traditional Micronesian Societies written by Glenn Petersen and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Micronesian Societies explores the extraordinary successes of the ancient voyaging peoples who first settled the Central Pacific islands some two thousand years ago. They and their descendants devised social and cultural adaptations that have enabled them to survive—and thrive—under the most demanding environmental conditions. The dispersed matrilineal clans so typical of Micronesian societies ensure that every individual, every local family and lineage, and every community maintain close relations with the peoples of many other islands. When hurricanes and droughts or political struggles force a group to move, they are sure of being taken in by kin residing elsewhere. Out of this common theme, shared patterns of land tenure, political rule, philosophy, and even personal character have flowed. To describe and explain Micronesian societies, the author begins with an overview of the region, including a brief consideration of the scholarly debate about whether Micronesia actually exists as a genuine and meaningful region. This is followed by an account of how Micronesia was originally settled, how its peoples adapted to conditions there, and how several basic adaptations diffused throughout the islands. He then considers the fundamental matters of descent (ideas about how individuals and groups are bound together through ties of kinship) and descent groups and the closely interlinked subjects of households, families, land, and labor. Because women form the core of the clans, their roles are particularly respected and their contributions to social life honored. Socio-political life, art, religion, and values are discussed in detail. Finally, the author examines a number of exceptions to these common Micronesian patterns of social life. Traditional Micronesian Societies illustrates the idiosyncrasies of individual Micronesian communities and celebrates the Micronesians’ shared ability to adapt, survive, and thrive over millennia. At a time when global climate change has seized our imaginations, the Micronesians’ historical ability to cope with their watery environment is of the greatest relevance.