The political discourses surrounding indigenous resistance has culminated to a state of endorsement

The political discourses surrounding indigenous resistance has culminated to a state of endorsement with President Barrack Obama of the free world finally reversing the position of neocolonial audacity. By endorsing the Human Rights Declaration of Indigenous Resistance, Chief Executive Obama has finally laid to rest the long path of ignorance replacing it instead with a deeper sense of commitment towards realizing equal dignity for all peoples. The indigenous people of the world, about 300 million of them told, have been waging a war of resistance seeking to remedy past injustices of cultural eradication that integrated a global system that puts them at the bottom of the social hierarchy. The indigenous Pacific was the last conquest of the New World order stemming from imperial ambitions culminating to the end of two decisive World Wars that would permanently engrave the global hierarchy to follow built on the notion of Power. The might is right has been at the forefront of American global policy and dominance but recent efforts to rectify past arrogance has led America under successful leadership and governance to be the adequate voice of change by changing the conversation and re-centering it around ethical moral bounds. The conversation surrounding Human Rights has always been the subject of political discourses and the international system of exchange built on the idea of America that has bore fruit the much needed change to cater the conversation towards a moral end. Interestingly enough, Indigenous Pacific Islanders of Micronesia have been fortunate to be on the last strike of the neo colonial clock being at the end of conquest giving them ample time to regroup, regain, and reject colonial conformity through active gain in the international system.

By the 1940s, at the end of being shook by World War II, citizens of the Marshall Islands of indigenous and genius design sought to carefully craft a world of recovery that would build a relationship upon the new power structure led by America that was American designed. Educated elites of the Micronesian region that were all of a sudden marginally grouped into the colonially convenient rubric of Micronesia that would lead to its very demise brought it upon themselves to make the fight for their indigenous lands the subject and object of their very affection in their fight for sovereignty. Citing the examples of the immoral design of the Native Americans and the Native Hawaiians who unfortunately fell victim to the colonial and imperial might of its imperial conquerors, the new Micronesians who were binded by their own unique clannish structure began to draw strength from their right to rule themselves as a distinct group of people who were well within their right to construct themselves according to what was already identified.

Identity wars became the means in which Micronesians of the newly coined Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under United Nations Oversight began to entertain themselves in the new modern design. Having experienced the sharp end of global greed for power, the Micronesians of the Trust Territory began to see themselves into the larger picture of the global discourses they once rejected. BY indigenizing foreign design and re-contextualizing resources towards an indigenous end of their choosing, Micronesian political elites led by their traditional leaders began to regain what was never lost. Their essence of being was engraved in their path to secure a future that would take into consideration the interdependent model

of power that exchanges pathways of realization based on mutual interaction be it good or bad. The shaking forces of War demonstrated the clear intent of the United Nations to oversee territories designed to regain a sense of self in the ongoing struggle for power that permanently altered their way of thinking.

Despite the creation of the United Nations, it was already clear from the get go the immense influence of the new global super power that is the United States who stripped both the United Kingdom and the Empire of Japan of global dominance permanently extending its reach in the Pacific theater and creating a buffer zone in Micronesia. In 1946, as demonstration of its might, the United States immediately began Operation Crosswards signifying its continued entrance in the discovery of unknown Nuclear War Capabilities using the Marshall Islands as its target ironically due to its isolation which was in itself the very practice it traditionally replicated as did the East. Where once these natives cruelly and jealously guarded their land from outside explorers killing them by the dozens, they were now conquered and imperially subjected to the practices that they sought to isolate themselves from by simply killing off the strangers in their own land. The assumption behind many scholars is to surmise at best that it was because of their primitive savage nature.

Yet, oral history and actual recorded history when comprehensively examined revealed the cruel encounters of explorers trespassing and exploiting on sight the people whom they viewed as backwards and uncivilized.

The notion often told by scholars of colonized design, where a sense of entitlement stemming from manifest destiny tendencies describes in action the need to decolonize their frame of thought, brings much needed exposure to the level of ignorance surrounding foreign judgment of unexplored indigenous lenses. Dr. Baba recites the obvious stating that indigenous frames are severely needed to dissect the full natural and supernatural environment of the indigenous pacific who retain an important philosophical part in academia having been the very instruments of evolved Neanderthals called modern man who sailed the Pacific. Her thoughts are perfectly captured by Polynesian scholars such as Dr. Trask and Dr. Smith who too argue for more indigenous control of research and institutions that are rightfully positioned and warrants recognition. These unique frames of references of indigenous design reveal an independent mindset and has allowed researchers of the twenty first century to humanize their descriptions of the people they once called savage and primitive yet have been controlling the political discourses surrounding people simply through the moral basis of existing as the immorally colonized.

In essence, when one describes the history of the world, one naturally recalls the path of science and evolution that dictate modern mans rise to technology. The word science in itself means the principle of knowledge showcasing knowing from observation as a key step in the empirical method used to measure scientific hypothesis that shift from theory to fact once proven. The fact of the matter is, the indigenous region of the Pacific which constitutes one third of the World’s surface has been geopolitically settled by these so called primitive species thus mapping the world’s undiscovered territory that was never sailed out of fear of falling down the flat earth. Modern science depict these people as having Austronesian origin

revealing them to be of Asian extraction originating from the aboriginal lands of Taiwan who were said also to have migrated from Southeast China. Most ancient civilizations such as Egypt and Mesopotamia reveal the same coveted qualities of coastal civilizations where the medium of water constitutes the basic stirrings of life, as now been irrefutably concluded by the physical sciences.

Coastal civilization have been described as being the first to discover navigation and through this art came the art of astronomy with purpose using celestial navigation and mapping furthering the unseen land masses puckering out of sunken volcanoes in the middle of the Pacific. The sustainable development strategies of ocean voyaging peoples such as the Marshall Islands who based communication through its simple nature reflect the primitive realization of naval power where the art of navigation determines the political hierarchy. The end of the state is thus also controlled by the naval importance of navigation where territories and resources and its ultimate means are preserved through the obvious physical contact scenario of communication that transportation allows giving and setting the basis for society. The mystical attachment that coastal populations such as the atoll dwelling Marshallese have retained reveals the deeper philosophical and spiritual connections within their cultural structure.

With only one percent of the Marshall Islands constituting land with a mere 60 sq miles of total land Mass, it becomes clear why land and property becomes the most sought after resource. It also becomes extremely clear why this is a society of voyaging and navigation where the other 99 percent of the geographical make up of RMI is all water. The intense struggle to retain its waters is the biggest challenge for many Micronesians. Despite regaining its sovereignty in the 1980s with formal consent from the United States of America, indigenous leaders continuously struggle with the times of having to deal with the World and its criminals exploiting resources within its exclusive economic zone. The value of life drained by mystical attachment pushes indigenous Micronesians to challenge themselves with the necessity of preserving at least 30 percent of its Marine and 20 percent of its terrestrial resources to keep the idea of their cultural heritage alive committing to its protection.

Safeguarding indigenous property said to be God given told literally to be dropped from a basket by a giant shepherd is the forefront of the battle to retain sovereignty in both practice and identification. Purposely making the global discourses around tradition and making it known that indigeniety is understood where sovereignty resides, Micronesians have always fought to retain control of their own lands because it is the true strength of their attachment to their own global voices that decides the worlds directions in these agreed forums and treaties.

Inserting and asserting themselves has been a key strategy in regaining sovereignty amongst colonial aggressors and the people of the Marshall Islands retained this kind of thinking even when separating from the colonized perspective of having to exist with others that have been culturally and linguistically different on so many levels. Despite the overwhelming evidence pinpointing a Southeast Austronesian connection originating the first Marshallese to the position of the Tawainese Archipalego, Marshallese have rejected the concept that the World began there.

Although they do not reject the Christian notion of humans being the same species, Marshallese have still abided by their principle of self-design lending themselves to be the interperters of their own beginnings.

When presented with the notion that Pacific Islanders came after Asians given their inscribed primitive qualities of imperial design, indigenous leaders such as the first Marshallese President slyly needles the ignorant stating “We do not know exactly when the first people settled these islands…but we do know that our ancestors were dauntlessly sailing the vastness of the Pacific with hand hewn wooden canoes without instruments while Europeans were still arguing whether the Earth was round or flat.” In fact, it was these very categories that led the Marshall Islands to actively reject the colonial designs of their conquerors. They sought to replicate tradition as a means of rejecting the very people who conquered them by slowly taking away their property and arranging them under a new system of global change. It seems ironic that despite Japanese rulership in the islands of Micronesia that led one to follow its own indigenous design within its locally prescribed context, American leadership pushed for greater integration to lump Micronesia together under a Micronesian Congress that ultimately reported to the American High Commissioner in Saipan.

Up until the 1960s, Micronesia was closed off from the rest of the world for Security purposes leading most scholars to label it jokingly the Rust Territory paying homage to the lack of development in the UN Mandated Territory with US as its Administrator other than the rust that developed ever so rapidly from the salt spray.

The Marshall Islands, despite it being absorbed into the system of Micronesia designed by the American government, planned its own dissolution by seeking separate agreements in the road to independence. It became clear at the outset that lumping together the islands of Micronesia didn’t make sense. As a historical matter, trade in the Marshall Islands developed amongst North and South lines because the prevailing trade winds made navigation to the East and West and back again virtually impossible. Despite being grouped by linguist as being part of a sub language group of Austronesia being Nuclear Micronesia, Marshall Islands was already at a point in its development of realizing its own distinctive nature within its own political jurisdiction.

While others vouched for a Unified Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and Palau rejected the concept of a unified Micronesia under the plain basis of being different and crafted their own constitutions. The Marshall Islands in 1979 created its own constitution under United Nations and American oversight which was approved by the voting majority. Within its own constitution, the language is clear of an interdependent reality where the War that forced them to grow independently within the political arena is permanently woven into the language of its preamble. It adopted a Parliamentary Style constitution that takes into consideration its traditional nature with the President sharing executive power with the Cabinet.

The intent of this design was based on practical conventional wisdom where the Marshall Islands had no political experience acting as an independent executive player having been under colonial rule. Under Germany, Japan, and the United States; the Marshall Islands never had the chance to act as an independent executive

player in the global arena. The justification behind a Cabinet system was reflected to take the reality of pragmatism into consideration where there was no political experience that would merit an independent executive post. This goes well with the argument of Bayly stating that the World really is an interdependent place because the political construction of the Marshall Islands constitutional structure was constructed with that blatant regard.