"Onwards"

Onwards suggests movement into the future. This chapter looks at present-day situations (at the time of interviews) in these communities, with particular focus on the preservation and perpetuation of cultural knowledge, environmental practices, and historical sites. How is this community changing, both in terms of people and environment, and how is it working to preserve and perpetuate its cultural and material resources?

Land Today looks at contemporary conservation and education initiatives. How is the community managing the land in a forward-looking manner? How are the traditions and new practices of land management being instilled in the next generation?

Sea Today does the same thing: it ooks at contemporary conservation and education initiatives. How is the community managing the ocean resources in a forward-looking manner? How are the traditions and new practices of ocean management being instilled in the next generation?

Replanting can be interpreted either of two ways. It can look to the physical replanting of crops orof useful plants, but this goes hand-in-hand with cultural replanting, in the form of education or consciousness raising.

Sacred Sites returns us to the places described in the earlier chapters, those sites of cultural importance for legendary, historical, or even contemporary reasons. We look at how these sites figure within the community today, and how the community might be working to preserve or present these sites, for themselves and for others.

Values: This page is reserved for closing thoughts by the community guides. Here you will find the most thoughtful and profound reflections of these guides, about their culture and their village, past, present and future. Here is where the emphasis on the values of the community is most clear.

This is the conclusion of a community website. But we remind our readers that while each website presents a continuous story from start to finish, you can jump in anywhere and focus on a particular theme, or more importantly, follow a theme across the pages and chapters of different communities within the Pacific Worlds project.