Microwaves By Jack Niedenthal   Majuro —The name of a country is never just a collection of words; it is a vessel of memory, belonging and even power. Our country’s name, the Marshall Islands, honors an English sea captain who spent only a few days here in 1788. Yet our people have lived on these atolls for several thousand years, nurturing a sophisticated and cherished oceanic culture. Our true name—Aelōn̄ Kein Ad, meaning “Our Islands” or “Our Atolls”—has always carried, in

At a recent Tokelau Language Week seminar in Aotearoa, Higano “Gano” Perez held up a hand-drawn fishing circle and invited the audience to imagine rowing an outrigger canoe into the open lagoon.