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	The Pacific: Uninvited Guests - NI 101 - Guano, going - nearly gone
		Nauruans and Banabans stood by bemused with no idea that their homelands were being carted away for spreading over the fields of the west.
		Their immediate concern at the time was the determination of both the British government and the Gilbert Islands administration to incorporate Banaba in the new state of Kiribati (pronounced kiri-bas, a corruption of the word Gilberts) and to use phosphate revenues as a post-independence prop for a nation which had very little else worth selling.
		The Banabans are supposed to have a special place in the Kiribati constitution, says David Christopher, 'but we are being treated like any other of their outer islands and we are not like other outer islands'.
	www.newint.org /issue101/guano.htm (1391 words)

	Reporter-News Online: Texas News -- Two airport mechanics sentenced to time served for immigration violations
		Banaban and Tolentino, who have been jailed about six months, were sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Terry Means and could be deported, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in its Tuesday editions.
		Banaban and Tolentino faced up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
		Attorneys for Banaban and Tolentino said their clients paid thousands of dollars for documents that they believed were legitimate but turned out to be fake.
	www.texnews.com /1998/2003/texas/texas_Two_airpo17.html (311 words)

	Banaba
		The inhabitants, the Banabans, never quite saw the justice of shipping their homeland to Australia in bulk carriers in return for an inadequate number of small pieces of paper termed "Royalties" and were a constant thorn in the side of the British Phosphate Commissioners.
		Banaban history has been passed down over the generations in an oral form by Banaban Elders.
		The Banaban's folklore had foretold the arrival of such a man or prophet, and the community eagerly adopted this new religion.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /kiribati/about_destin/banaba.html (2389 words)

	Banaba - History
		The first mentioned in the Banaban traditions were atua, the brother and sister for some say the children of Tabakea the Firstborn and they were followed by anti bearing the same names and later by antimaomata.
		But as Nei Beteua was a direct descendant of Anginimaeao we suspect her of a ……..that the Banabans, many of whom were reluctant to change their religion, decided to become Christians in 1885.
		Again in 1947, when many of the Banabans went to their island to settle land matters with Maynard of the BPC, who heard that Nei Tituabine mentioned to one of them that she was lonely on Banaba all by herself and would accompany them to Rabi where she would live in future.
	www.janeresture.com /banaba/history.htm (2069 words)

	Virgin Coconut Oil
		Banaban coconut oil is processed on Fiji to Australian food standards.
		The coconut trees had been grown naturally, or planted in a chemically free environment on Fiji.
		We are a cooperative of Banaban coconut planters offering bulk wholesale product for the natural health industry mainly.
	www.coconut-oil.ws (161 words)

	Historical Overview of the Banabans
		The ignorant and trusting Banabans were only to happy to welcome new visitors and not understanding the language placed crosses on lengthy legal documents signing their island away for 50 pounds per annum for the next 999 years.
		After years of dissension between the Banabans, the British government and the lucrative phosphate fertiliser industry the Banabans found themselves being forced into so called 'Agreements' enacting new British laws that would see the compulsory acquisition of their land.
		The Banabans presence on their beloved homeland is to protect their island from ever being taken from them again.
	www.banaban.com /histovie.htm (982 words)

	Kiribati - The Trials of the Banabans
		It was difficult for the Banaban witnesses, uninstructed in the disciplines of a British Court of Justice and he mysteries of legal procedures; more especially as it soon became clear that many English legal expressions cannot be translated into Gilbertese (I-Kiribati) at all.
		By Banaban law of etiquette, it was impossible for young people to know details or even sites of the particular plots their parents intended to leave to them, until the final hours of their parents' life.
		The council for the defence wished to establish that the Banaban landholders were totally unreasonable in their demand that Ocean Island should be rehabilitate when the BPC moved out.
	www.janesoceania.com /kiribati_banaba_trials (2199 words)

	Kiribati
		Most Banabans now live on Rabi island in the Fiji group, bought for them from their own reserve funds by the British at the end of World War II.
		Their departure was compensated for by the addition of the twin seats of Banaba and Rabi to the government side.
		After years of neglect by the Kiribati government, the Banabans are hopeful that there will be a more sympathetic approach to their problems if they join the ruling party.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~ogden/piir/pacific/kiribati.html (906 words)

	Banaba - Aspects of History
		Though the converted Banabans were learning Methodist abhorrence of Banaban pagan traditions, and the "Kiritians" regarded themselves as superior, the basic Banaban social fabric held together.
		So the Banabans were unwillingly eking out a modest living on poor "soil" which, chemically treated with sulphuric acid, would have provided them (as for the next half-century it provided millions of Britons) with an abundance of food.
		We soon saw that the Banabans, as a result of their hard and strenuous life, were most expert fishermen, even going shark-fishing in their small rafts, little larger in area than an ordinary door.
	www.janesoceania.com /kiribati_banaba_history (5354 words)

	Banaba - Republic of Kiribati
		Within months, the Banaban dancers, dressed in traditional Banaban costumes, were giving their first performances of Banaban authentic pre-missionary dances and songs of Ocean Island.
		The Banabans have experienced the pleasure of sending their Banaban dancers to the great Pacific festivals where they have walked off with the laurels.
		The Banabans who had been deprived of their language, their religion and their culture mainly by the missionaries and their homeland by the BPC have managed to survive.
	www.janeresture.com /banaba4 (1013 words)

	Ocean Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The local Banaban chief was not at all impressed with his promises and talk of salvation, however, the new minister was gradually able to introduce some bibles which had been translated into Gilbertese, a similar dialect, giving the Banaban natives their first written language.
		The Banaban chiefs and people began to ask a lot of questions from the company management and the British District Commissioner, as to when the Pacific Phosphate Company proposed to restore the land and vegetation and also re-plant their plots with the crops that they had destroyed.
		Now the Banaban natives concerns over their treatment by the company and the state of their land, had finally been brought to the attention of the Foreign Office in London where the matter was being questioned in the British Houses of Parliament.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~tonyf/ocean/ocean.html (3333 words)

	Papers of H.E. Evans and H.C. Maude - F. Papers on Banaban Action V. The Crown
		Record of the proceedings of the two Court actions brought by the Banaban Council of Elders, and correspondence of E.H. Maude re the case, together with copies of contemporary reports, correspondence and notes compiled by E.H. Maude with reference to the action.
		The draft Banaban Native Lands (Inheritance and Conveyance) Ordinance, 1932, and related documentation.
		recollections by Maude and P.D. Macdonald re Rotan Tito, the purchase of Rambi and the Banabans in December 1945.
	www.library.adelaide.edu.au /ual/special/maude_F.html (500 words)

	Kiribati Bibliography: Semantic Index
		Memorandum (to the Secretary of the Western Pacific High Commission) on the future of the Banaban po pulation of Ocean Island, with special relation to their lands and funds.
		The three thousand Banabans of Ocean Island claimed they had been exploited all along the line when their island turned out to be full of phosphate.
		Posnett, R.N. Ocean Island and the Banabans: A Report to the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affair s.
	www.trussel.com /kir/s_banaba.htm (1564 words)

	Seventh Emeritus Lecture Honoring Elizabeth F. Colson - Published Works - 1973 Review of The Social Consequences of ...
		When phosphate mining began in 1900 on Ocean Island in the Gilbert and Ellice Island Colony, the local Banabans were precipitated into a vortex of events which culminated in their resettlement in 1945 on Rambi Island, Fiji, 1,600 miles away.
		Although the framework for this study in resettlement and directed change is therefore fairly clear-cut in time and space, the issues are not and the title is no misnomer.
		The Banabans and Gwembe Tonga have much in common: both literally lost their land and had no option but to resettle.
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /Anthro/colson/pub/reviews/col9.html (726 words)

	Fiji Islands - History, South Pacific Internet Travel Specialists, (pacificnavigator.com) Fiji Islands, Tonga, Cook ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The banaban are originally from Banaba (Ocean Is.) in Kiribati (from the British influence known as the Gilbert Islands).
		The island was very rich in phosphate and due to the destruction of the island caused by the mining of the land.
		The Banaban’s retained financial interest in Banaba but have now also integrated into the wider community of Fiji.
	www.pacificnavigator.com /fiji/aboutfiji/history.html (1122 words)

	Son of BANABA - Reflections of Home
		The last one shows the big rectangular shape batere drum (box) which is situated in the midst of the singers, whose powerful chants and drum beats of the batere box, reverberates not only the physical entity of our human body, but digs deeper into our own very soul.
		Even though I had taken it for granted that it was going to be another one of the typical occasions that usually comes with the festivities of Christmas and the end of the school celebrations for children and adults alike, I was actually in for the shock of my life.
		Yes a total self-giving in all it's perfection and execution, and that is to dance the only dance and sing the only song of their life so to speak for that day only and only for that day.
	www.banaban.info /paulo2.htm (1243 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - Descendents of deserted Pacific island demand compensation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The president of the Banaban Landowners Association, Joseph Taratai, says his group is seeking up to $US28 million from the British government.
		He claims the British-run Pacific Phosphate Mining Company is now mining at least 650 tonnes of phosphate a year from the former Ocean Island.
		He says it is an attempt to exhaust the phosphate and run away, before islanders and their descendents can get a chance to get something in return.
	www.abc.net.au /asiapacific/news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_1067836.htm (134 words)

	Banaba Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Banaba a semi-official resource on Banaba, covering history of Banabans and Banaba island, as well as recent news
		Banaban Charity Web is a project to help Banaba
		This page was last modified 13:41, 12 September 2005.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Banaban (141 words)

	Kiribati (02/01)
		A major source of conflict has been the protracted bid by the residents of Banaban Island to secede and have their island placed under the protection of Fiji.
		The government's attempts to placate the Banabans include several special provisions in the constitution, such as the designation of a Banaban seat in the legislature and the return of land previously acquired by the government for phosphate mining.
		Phosphates had been profitably exported from Banaban Island since the turn of the century, but the deposits were exhausted in 1979.
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/k/26187.htm (1437 words)

	Banabe (Kiribati) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Banabans on Rabi island fly the Fiji flag and in Banaba fly the Kiribati flag for all official occasions.
		The Banabans do not have independence as this was denied to them in 1980 when Kiribati became a Republic.
		The Banabans, including myself, see the role of the Kiribati Government and the issue of Independence for our homeland of Banaba in the Central Pacific as still a HOT issue.
	www.flagspot.com /flags/ki-bana.html (660 words)

	Kiribati: Banaba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I received (Jan 1996) an e-mail from Stacey King (banaban@ion.com.au) in Australia announcing the formation of the Banaban Heritage Society Inc.,., a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation of Banaban Culture and bettering the lives of the Banaban people.
		My own understanding is that the Banabans are racially I-Kiribati, and that their culture (social, linguistic and material) is a simply variant of the I-Kiribati culture albeit more extreme than the normal range of inter-island variation seen within the Gilberts Group.
		The Banabans themselves have repeatedly made the case for their separateness from the I-Kiribati, but it should be noted that this claim was intimately tied up with the Banaban independence movements of the 1970's, where what was primarily at issue was the destination of phosphate revenues.
	www.wysiwyg.co.nz /kiribati/banaba.html (929 words)

	Kiribati: The Banaba Heritage Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thought you would like to know that I work with the Banaban people in preserving their history, and we have formed and international network of interested people.
		Manabu is completely committed to helping the Banabans, and his documentary should go to air later in the year on national television.
		David and Bureimone for the first time in history last year sat down with the K.Gov. and started plans to work together in trying to finally help the Banabans on O.I. This is such an historic first and major event, after years of the BPC pitting the two old former friends against one another.
	www.wysiwyg.co.nz /kiribati/bhs.html (1199 words)

	Archived Banaban Message Board - 21 Dec 1997 and 6 Jan 1997
		The Banaban Documentary went to air on NHK TV in Japan 11am Monday morning the 5th.
		Of course, attendance at our very Banaban style Conference is not compulsory, and I can assure you there will be plenty of other activities and interests to keep everyone occupied whilst on our Banaba stop over.
		Banaban's will also be represented at this event in Tokyo.
	www.banaban.info /97mess.htm (4529 words)

	Banaba - Press Release - Archived - Japanese Documentary
		I studied a lot on Banaban history from Stacey and libraries here in Japan, and I am well aware of the full extend of Japanese involvement with Banaban history, especially during WW2 years..
		The program did however give the general history of the Banabans and mainly focused on the damage done by the BPC (British Phosphate Commission) and how Thomas Teai and his son feel about the way their beloved homeland has been left after 80 years of exploitation by phosphate mining.
		It is more importantly a start of reconciliation between Banabans and the Japanese people, and a way in which more Japanese can now get involved in helping the Banabans move towards a better future.
	www.banaban.com /japdoco.htm (873 words)

	Papers of H.E. and H.C. Maude - B. The Holland Papers
		Includes detailed statement re 1913 agreement with the Banabans by J.C. Barley, 17 December 1937; and notes by Holland 11 March 1948 on the forthcoming control of Banaban affairs by the Fiji Government.
		Holland's letters refer to the Banaban Island Council's claim for independence in the light of the Tonga precedent, and their challenge to the right of the Fiji Government to appoint the Banaban Advisor.
		Further papers re the Banaban community are held in Series F, Papers of the Banaban Action v.
	www.library.adelaide.edu.au /ual/special/maude_B.html (282 words)

	No Indian has right to become PM - Qarase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When a country is in a position that it is in now - in an adverse economical and social condition after last year's events, the people only want someone who can redeem us from this position.
		Only that someone - be he or she Fijian, Indian, Rotuman, Banaban, white or blue - should be a person if integrity, industry, imagination and openness, with a willingness to listen to people.
		He must be a person of character; honest and intelligent who is willing to respect the human rights of everyone and recognise our common humanity.
	www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/hot_press/no1036.htm (268 words)

	Archived Banaban Message Board - 21 Jan 2003 and 23 Dec 2003
		Picked up a bit of information about Banabans on the net for my radio programme and played the cd "Rabi the new home of the Banabans from the Ocean Island" you mentioned during reading about the people and their lost island.
		After all, the British Government and the British Phosphate Commission were the ones who took all the phosphate from the Banabans and sending the poor people to migrate to an isolated island called Rabi, in Fiji, which was recently hit by AMI cyclone.
		As far as your wife's public messages on the Banaban Message Board are concerned they have been archived along with others for anyone wanting to read them at the link at the bottom of the message board 'More 2003 Messages'.
	www.banaban.info /23bmess.htm (10450 words)

	Big On Micronesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Since the loss of income from phosphate royalties in 1980, these transplanted Banabans have come to terms with their existence, without dominant British Phosphate Company influence.
		Due to the effects of droughts in the early part of 2001, many of the Banabans have resettled on Rabi Island and others have moved to Tarawa or one of the other atolls of Kiribati, spread over an expanse as great as that between Los Angeles and New York.
		Today there are currently only about 200 Banabans currently living on their home island.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/current_events_pacific_islands/83848 (809 words)

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