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Re: Re: True Story(Cont.#6) |
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Troy |
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Sep 12, 05 - 12:42 PM |
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thus Puakonakai became a piece of land later, during the great land rush created by a bunch of greedy Englishmen. The British Commission maps have added a fourth land name. The name Bukinterike. We don’t know why or by whom this occurred as it most certainly was not a village before 1900. It was probably devised by someone named by that name that had acquired power in the island community and simply told the English Managers that he owned that land. The Englishmen did not care who owned the land, simply put his name on a new map. Thus a Bukinterike family would receive phosphate royalties along with the other village families. Prior to 1900, the land was considered the ownership of the Royal Crown and the villagers put stone walls around the land they used to raise food on and put their huts on. Land ownership did not become an issue until they discovered that money and highly prized trade goods could be gotten by claiming pieces of land, thus British invaders not only destroyed the land, but they turned the native themselves against each other, greeding and lusting over money and European made goods. As of this writing, the original owners of Puakonakai have never received any benefits of phosphate mining to include land on Rabi Island, nor a share of the Banapan $10 million Fiji Trust Fund. The commoners turned Christians are rich and the Royal Family lives in poverty on an island that did not want them there. Is this humane justic? The Christian way? The descendants of the commoners refuse to communicate nor recognize the Royal Family today as it would be an admission that what we are writing is truth and historically factually correct. They simply will not share their ill begotten fortunes as they portray themselves as the poor Banapans to the world. With the millions they possess, as land owners, beneficiaries of a huge trust fund, owners of a lush green Fiji Island, they have done nothing for the Royal Family nor have they made any attempt to re-build the home island of Puakonakai. It is not their island and it is not Banapa, Panapa, or Ocean island either but rather it is PUAKONAKAI.
The story resumes with the two children born to King (Te’Moi) Tutuk (Tutaki) and Queen Timirik (Nei-Kamoa). First I will attempt to explain the meaning of the names Te’Moi and Nei-Kamoa. Te’Moi is the Polynesian name of King. Nei-Kamoa means Beloved Samoa as the so called Banapans forgotten. They had two children between 1810 and 1815. The son was named Tisiniriak and the daughter was Bobure (Bubore). About 1840-1842, Bobure called Nei-Bobure out of respect to the Royal Crown, met and married a man from Nauru Island. This island is 160 miles to the west of Puakonakai and his name was Mr. J.W.Harris. He and his wife, Nei-Bobure lived and died on Nauru Island. They had three children, William, Martha and Mariam. It is also said that Nei-Bobure had a daughter with a Kiribati man and left her in Tapewa village with family of Karianna, her brother Tisiniriak’s wife. William grew up and married a Marshalles woman named Kenie. They had many children on Nauru, all there today. Martha and Mariam fell in love with two German brothers that were traders of goods and had visited Nauru around 1860. The two wemon moved to Likiep Island with their German husbands and lived there in the Marshalls. Mariam had no issue, so as was the custom in those days, she took at least one of Martha’s children to raise as her own, named Salome. She also adopted a Marshallese female child named Emma Jordan Capelle. One of the girls that Mariam raise (Salome), grew up and married a Japanese Officer. Upon discovering that she had contracted leprosy, she commited suiside by hanging. |
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