Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia 9780824877385

Table of contents :
Contents
Maps of Micronesia
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Garlanding
Origins
I Tinituhon/The Beginning
Fu’una and Pontan
Time
Uchelel a Tekoi Chuab, Kotel Belau
Chuab—Belau
Merry Ancestors
Nei Mwanganibuka/ The Legendary Fisherwoman
To Swim with Eels
I Have Seen Sirena Out at Sea/ Gua na hu li’i’ si Sirena
Halom Tano’
Nareau’s Return
Ode to the Fisherman’s Hat/ Te bwara te taraai
Return to the Sea
Tinaitayon Hinanåo Såkman Saina/Prayer for Safe Journey
Gutos i Finihu I Hinacha Hinanåo/Rite of First Voyage of the Sakman Saina
Quipuha’s Sin
Silent Warriors
Fino’ Finakpo’/Final Words
Manotohge Hit/We Stand
Resistance
Forefathers
Lbolb/Wolf
The Lord’s Prayer
What Am I
Excerpt from “Freedom”
To Belau
Belau Be Brave
Nauru in 2001
Tampering with Bible Translation in Yap
“Local”
Inside Out
My Mother’s Bamboo Bracelets A Handful of Lessons on Saving the World
The Mango Trees Already Know
Juan Malo & the Tip of America’s Spear
Juan Malo & Where America’s Day Begins
The Storm
Dance
More than Just a Blue Passport
My Island Is One Big American Footnote
The Revolution Will Not Be Haolified
Remembering
From The Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia, 1975
History Project
Thieves
Guåhan
From I Dos Amantes
From An Ocean in a Cup
An Ode to Our Unsung Heroes
From An Island in Agony
A New Invasion
From Mariquita: A Tragedy of Guam
From Cheffla gi i Manglo
From Nasarinu
Nauru Women Picket a Government-Sponsored Flight to London for the Stage Play Leonardo da Vinci, May 27, 1993
Egade
The First Woman in Parliament Ruby’s Story
Ti Mamaigo Si Yu’us— God Never Sleeps
Identities
Sun Burns
Crash
Juan Malo & Da Real Chamoru
My Blood
Téétéén Kúen
The Micronesian Question
Micro-Eye-Class
Kaki se (a coconut)
Echukeison in Maikronisia
Bomb the School System
“Unfit”
English Only Law Impact
Language with an Attitude Palauan Identity with an English Accent
Culture for Sale
In Search of What Matters . . .
Kul
FestPac neni
Kao siña hao fumino’ Chamoru?
Memory Revising, As My Diasporic Queer Self
Grass
English Major
Voyages
Raiarecharmoracherchar
What Grandma Sinsilmam Knew
Flying to Makiki Street
Tomorrow
The Monkey Gate
Moon Sickness, Green Cards, and the Taro Patch
Bare-Breasted Woman
Homes of Micronesia
The Cry of Oceania
We Are Human at the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
Imbibing Native DNA at a Pacific Science Meeting in Australia
A Journey of CHamoru Self-Discovery
The Five Stages of Being Micronesian in Guam
Family
My Urohs
The Tree
Mechikung
Rubak
Red Shoes
Sky Cathedral
Ngedeloch
Food Thoughts
The Boys
Auntie Lola’s Champion Chalakiles
What urohs say
Beloved Sumay
Fino’ Gualåffon/Moonlight Talk
Portrait of Grandmother Eating Mango
Hineksa Anonymous
I am from . . .
A New Micronesia
Pohnpei Outer Space
Development
Map Gazing
Look at It This Way
I could be Miss Guam Tourism
Well, we’re all eating chå’guan now
My life is a poetry reading
Hiking
The floating world
I Will Drink the Rain (For Toma)
Flip Flops
Black Coral
On the Occasion of the Quarter Century
Archery
Tidepools
Afterword
About the Contributors