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  • On top of a hill surrounded by palm trees and a forest, an American flag flies on a flagpole. At the base of the hill are people and construction.

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    Hoisting of the American Flag

    On April 17, 1900, high chiefs from the Samoan islands of Tutuila and Aunuʻu signed a Deed of Cession, ceding the islands to the US.

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    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
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  • Drawing of bald eagle standing over the globe with its wingspan spanning from the Philippines to Puerto Rico. The year "1898" is labeled above.

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    U.S. Expansion in 1898

    This Philadelphia Press political cartoon symbolizes US expansion in 1898 from “tip to tip”: Puerto Rico (right, identified as “Porto Rico”) to the Philippines (left, identified as “Manila”). A map of the US in 1798 (bottom right) presents a stark contrast in territorial size.

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    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
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  • Typed text of Public Law No. 103-150, wherein the U.S. apologizes to Native Hawaiians for overthrowing the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi a hundred years earlier.

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    Public Law No. 103-150 Page 5

    Click through to read all five pages of Public Law No. 103-150.

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  • Typed text of Public Law No. 103-150, wherein the U.S. apologizes to Native Hawaiians for overthrowing the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi a hundred years earlier.

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    Public Law No. 103-150 Page 4

    Click through to read all five pages of Public Law No. 103-150.

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    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
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  • Typed text of Public Law No. 103-150, wherein the U.S. apologizes to Native Hawaiians for overthrowing the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi a hundred years earlier.

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    Public Law No. 103-150 Page 3

    Click through to read all five pages of Public Law No. 103-150.

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    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
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  • Typed text of Public Law No. 103-150, wherein the U.S. apologizes to Native Hawaiians for overthrowing the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi a hundred years earlier.

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    Public Law No. 103-150 Page 2

    Click through to read all five pages of Public Law No. 103-150.

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    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
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  • Typed text of Public Law No. 103-150, wherein the U.S. apologizes to Native Hawaiians for overthrowing the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi a hundred years earlier.

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    Public Law No. 103-150 Page 1

    Click through to read all five pages of Public Law No. 103-150.

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    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
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  • Bar graph details Pacific Islander groups plotted on x axis. On y axis is population plotted in 100,000 increments.

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    Largest Pacific Islander Groups in the US

    The largest Pacific Islander groups in the US are Native Hawaiians (620,000), followed by Samoans (212,000), CHamorus (156,000), Tongans (65,000), and Fijians (50,000). Data based on five years (2016-2020) of Census American Community Surveys.

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  • A white, circular badge features a red triangle with a conch shell in the center. Surrounding it is text that reads, "Kanak Maori Independence."

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    Kanak Independence Badge

    This badge from the 1980s calls for Kanak independence in New Caledonia, a French territory where Kanak are Indigenous peoples, in solidarity with Māori of Aotearoa New Zealand, a former British Crown colony.

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  • A map of Oceania. The subregions of Micronesia, Melanesia, Australasia, and Polynesia are highlighted in various colors.

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    Map of Oceania

    Another map of Oceania with the subregions Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia identified. Compared to the map above, how might categorization be used to both divide and unite?

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  • Black and white photo of a young Ruby Tape dressed in a hat and a fur scarf while holding a leather purse standing on sandy ground.

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    Module 5: A Modern Chinese American Woman

    Mae Ngai

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    The Tape Family and Chinese American Civil Rights
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  • Samoan American Laulauga Tausaga-Collins stands in the National Athletics Centre. She poses with her gold medal and the U.S. flag wrapped around her.

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    Chapter Overview: Samoans in the United States

    Lana Lopesi

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  • Sunrise on the beach of Ofu, American Sāmoa. Mountains are on the left with palm trees at the base and large rocks on the shore.

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    Module 1: Overview: Samoans in the United States

    Lana Lopesi

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    Samoans in the United States
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  • Mural on the side of Bridge West Academy depicts a girl dressed in the Bangladeshi flag with a Bengal tiger, Bengali script, Shaheed Minar and hills.

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    Chapter Overview: Bangladeshi Americans

    Nazli Kibria, Elora Halim Chowdhury, Fariba S. Alam, and Sharbari Ahmed

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  • A sign with concrete footings placed on a lawn that reads "Welcome to Banglatown". Images of a Bengali flag and an American flag are next to the text.

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    Module 1: Bangladeshi Migration and Settlement in the US

    Nazli Kibria, Elora Halim Chowdhury, Fariba S. Alam, and Sharbari Ahmed

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    Bangladeshi Americans
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  • Refugees carry their belongings while trekking across a dry riverbed in the Ganges Delta at Kushtia.

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    Module 2: Bangladeshi Americans and the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War

    Elora Halim Chowdhury, Fariba S. Alam, Nazli Kibria, Sharbari Ahmed

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    Bangladeshi Americans
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  • A Chinese man holds a carrying pole with two buckets on either end over his shoulders standing between a mountainside and piles of rubble.

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    Chapter Overview: Chinese Americans and the Making of American History

    Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit Shelton

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  • Magazine cover of Patsy Mink, a Japanese American woman wearing sleeveless dress. Mink poses holding a bill with U.S. Capitol Dome in background.

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    Patsy Takemoto Mink: Fierce and Fearless

    Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink

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  • Cover page of an educational comic book on Patsy Takemoto Mink

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    Module 1: Overview

    Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink

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    Patsy Takemoto Mink: Fierce and Fearless
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