{"id":323,"date":"2023-06-14T20:09:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T20:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/elise-berman\/?page_id=323"},"modified":"2023-07-17T17:37:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T17:37:44","slug":"marshallese-and-micronesian-children%ca%bbs-language-and-culture-in-the-diaspora-information-and-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/elise-berman\/marshallese-and-micronesian-children%ca%bbs-language-and-culture-in-the-diaspora-information-and-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshallese and Micronesian Children\u02bbs Language and Culture in the Diaspora: Information and Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Marshallese language and Marshallese content books for the classroom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elementary School:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/marshallese-manit.org\/post-library-jukle\/marshallese-childrens-books\/\">Marshallese Manit<\/a> website has a list of children\u02bbs books in Marshallese, and relevant to the RMI. You can download and print some of them, others need to be bought.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/chikinmelele.com\/\">Chikin Melele<\/a> website is a newsletter about NWA written in Marshallese and English. These can be printed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PREL (Pacific Resources in Education) has a bunch of <a href=\"https:\/\/prel.org\/resources\/alphabet-books-and-language-cards\/\">language cards<\/a> (information about different Pacific languages with common greetings that can be printed on a card. They also have <a href=\"https:\/\/prel.org\/resources\/language-content-lc-learning-across-the-curriculum-bilingual-texts\/\">Bilingual Texts in Chuukese<\/a>, another Micronesian language.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bess Press has a bunch of children\u02bbs books and <a href=\"https:\/\/besspress.com\/products\/bilingual-marshallese-readers-set-1\">Bilingual Marshallese Readers<\/a>. A lot of the bilingual books are in Hawai\u02bbian, but they also have some Marshallese (and maybe other Pacific languages).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unboundbookmaker.com\/the-unbound-bookmaker-project.html\">The Unbound Bookmaker project<\/a> has a bunch of books written by school children in the RMI. I don\u02bbt know if they are all in Marshallese, (they may be in English) but they are great resources. Although the links on the above page are broken, if you type the names of the books into Amazon you will find them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bwebwenato-Ko-Aesop-Aesops-Marshallese\/dp\/1519523963\">La Kallib, 2015. Bwebwenato Ko An Aesop: Aesop\u02bbs Fables in Marshallese.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Older students:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/chikinmelele.com\/\">Chikin Melele<\/a> website is a newsletter about NWA written in Marshallese and English. These can be printed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Indigenous-Literatures-Micronesia-Oceania-Literary\/dp\/0824875419?asin=0824875419&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1\">Indigenous Literatures of Micronesia<\/a> is a set of poems and writings produced by many indigenous authors, including Marshallese<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Iep-Jaltok-Marshallese-Daughter-Tracks\/dp\/0816534020\">Iep Jaltok<\/a> is Kathy Jetnil-Kijner\u2019s book of poems. Some have Marshallese in them, most are in English. It is amazing, as are her video poems available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kathyjetnilkijiner.com\/videos-featuring-kathy\/\">her website<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stories-Marshall-Islands-Bwebwenato-Texts_Micronesia\/dp\/0824820193\">Stories from the Marshall Islands<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Online Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mistories.org\/index.php\">Marshall Islands story project<\/a> has recordings of Marshallese elders, with English written translations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshallese language and Marshallese content books for the classroom Elementary School: Older students: Online Resources:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-323","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2FcqW-5d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/elise-berman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/elise-berman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/elise-berman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/elise-berman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/elise-berman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/elise-berman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/elise-berman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/elise-berman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}