"When I ran my hand through my hair clumps of my hair would come out." Said the Marshall Island girl after the largest nuclear war head ever tested by the United States government was set off to the north of her. Bravo (the bombs code name) was 1,000 times more powerful then the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The Marshallese Islanders environment, health, subsistence, family traditions, rituals, religious practices, and following generations were all greatly impaired from Bravo’s blast. The following discuses these effects as well as U.S. interpretations of exposed victims as opposed to unexposed victims. There are also comparisons to the victims of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the U.S. radioactive homeland. To understand why so much of the Marshallese Islanders aspects of life were affected you have to understand the Marshallese social structure as it relates to their holistic view of land. There are three different tiers to society each with distinct land and resource rights. The first was the Iroij who were the chiefs of the land. The Iroji took care of his/her people in exchange for the people bringing the Iroij food and maintaining the land. The second was the Alap who were the managers of the land. They made sure all the workers were doing their part to maintain the land, and then reported land conditions back to the Iroij. Third was the ri-jerbal who were the workers who hunted, gathered, and maintained the land. The workers looked at the land holistically knowing not to deplete the land of its resources for future generations. Land is not just a place to live and grow food it is the essence of life. It’s the most valued commodity; life, culture and self-identity came from the land to the islanders. Before the religious ... ... middle of paper ... ...on experiments, however it is essential for this information to be taught to all citizens to keep our country in check. I hope that the Palute tribe in Radio Active Reservations will look at these stories before they decide to allow radiation to be stored on their lands in exchange for money. If these Native Americans read Bravo for Marshallese and understand the government’s history of making human guinea pigs and destroying cultures then they will undoubtedly turn away money, stopping environmental injustice for themselves and future generations. Bibliography: Bravo for the Marshallese: Regaining Control in a Post-Nuclear, Post-Colonial World, by Holly Barker, 2004, Belmont, Ca: Wadsworth/Thornson. Radioactive Reservation, Goldhawk Productions, 1990. Deadly Deception- General Electric, Nuclear Weapons & Our Environment, Director/Producer Debra Chasnoff, 1991.
In each of the cases stated above, the people of Hawaii and the Marshall Islands lost what they had, everything from safe drinking water to their native homelands. In the process they were made out to be savages and another less significant races in order for the United States to justify what they knew was wrong.
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