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Marshall Islander fish trap, circa 1940s. The culture of the Marshall Islands forms part of the wider culture of Micronesia. It is marked by pre-Western contact and the impact of that contact on its people afterward. The Marshall Islands were relatively isolated. Inhabitants developed skilled navigators, able to navigate by the currents to ...
The Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Ṃajeḷ), [5] officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ), [note 1] is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.
The Marshall Islands is a dynamic place with a dark past and uncertain future, yet not many people know about it. You probably never heard of this destination: 6 cool facts about The Marshall ...
The umbrella organisation for women's rights groups is Women United Together Marshall Islands (WUTMI), whose Executive Director was Kathryn Relang. [2] Relang worked on several projects, including: youth empowerment in the workplace; [ 3 ] providing support services for survivors of domestic violence; [ 4 ] raising awareness about legal rights ...
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A "push factor" from the Marshall Islands was nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll. [2] In the 1970s a Marshallese man named John Moody attended a university in the state of Oklahoma, [4] and then in the 1980s got employment at a Tyson Chicken factory in the area. Other Marshallese followed him after he told them there was ample employment in the ...
9,789 people lived on the Kwajalein including Ebeye in the 2021 census, [23] This is the second most populous island of the Marshal Islands, with Majuro being larger at about 25 thousand, as of the 2020s. These are much greater than the next populated islands at this time including Arno (~2 thousand), Jabor (~1200), and Wotje (~900). [24]