The Lolelaplap (Marshall Islands) in Us:

Indigenous ontologies are often overlooked in favor of Western Discourses. Those who are on the margins cling on to whatever rights they see as valid in attaining a truer sense of self in the intellectual debates comprising the human conscience. This book is but a first attempt in breaking barriers as to what knowledge means to many knowers for we know our own truths living out our own tales. In this light, it is the hope of the author that this book aids understanding in piecing the necessary broken fragments of debate that are too often clouded by institutional racism thus marginalizing indigenous voices in the process. As a mere act of implementation, the basic commentaries herein are intended to initiate readers through example in gaining a greater appreciation of human rights for indigenous peoples ascribed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and further inscribed in the United Nations DECLARATION on the rights of INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (2007).