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History is more than just text on a page; it is the photographs, voices, and artifacts of the people who lived it. The images and recordings featured across Foundations and Futures are part of a meticulously curated media repository. Whether you are building a lesson plan or investigating an artifact, you can use this database to trace the provenance of our media: discover who created an asset, the historical context behind it, and how it can be used to bring Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences into your classroom.
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Brianna Fruean’s UN Climate Summit Address
Brianna Fruean from Pacific Climate Warriors (350 Pacific), spoke at the UN Climate Summit in 2021. She shared an important message to world leaders from Pacific youth: “We are not drowning, we are fighting!”
Featured in:
Pacific Islanders, Module 4
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Climate Activist Ursula Rakova
In this clip, Ursula Rakova, a climate activist from Carteret Islands, shares her experiences of the ongoing impacts of climate change on Carteret Islands and its peoples.
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Pacific Islanders, Module 4
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Questions Exxon Scientists
In 2019, scientists who worked at Exxon in the 1980s testified before the US Congress Committee on Oversight & Reform. Here they respond to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s questions regarding Exxon’s knowledge of the impact of burning fossil fuels as early as the 1970s.
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Pacific Islanders, Module 4
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Sea Level Rise Visualization
This 2024 video from NASA Scientific Visualization Studio tracks the average rise in global sea level from 1993-2023. In some places, such as Oceania, local sea levels are rising much faster than the global average.
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Pacific Islanders, Module 4
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Jellyfish Lake in Palau
Millions of golden jellyfish migrate daily across Ongeim’l Tketau, also known as Jellyfish Lake, a marine lake in Palau.
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Pacific Islanders, Module 4
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1970 Ulawun Eruption
One third of the world’s volcanic gasses come from the volcanoes of Melanesia. This 1970 photo features an eruption from Ulawun, an active volcano in Papua New Guinea, with its rising ash plume.
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Pacific Islanders, Module 4
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Map of Small and Large Island States
This map from the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa highlights the land masses of the smaller and larger island states in Oceania. Reproduced with permission.
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Pacific Islanders, Module 4
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Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner’s UN Address
In this excerpt from poet Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner’s performance at the United Nations, she passionately assures her newborn child, Matafele, that she will resist rising ocean waters and greedy entities polluting the environment, and that their family will not become climate change refugees.
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Pacific Islanders, Module 4
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Nuclear Free Pacific Poster
In the aftermath of World War II, the US detonated nuclear devices on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands from 1946-1958, displacing people from their homes. Bikini Atoll remains uninhabitable due to radiation from US nuclear testing.
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Pacific Islanders, Module 3
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Map of U.S. Military Installations in Pacific
This map from a 2023 US Congress Report identifies select US military installations and defense sites in the Pacific region.
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Pacific Islanders, Module 3
