PUBLICATIONS:

Bowers, Niel M. (2001) Problems of Resettlement on Saipan, Tinian and Rota, Mariana Islands. Saipan: N.M.I. Division of Historic Preservation (Second Edition). First published in 1950.

Farrell, Don A. (1991) History of the Northern Mariana Islands. Published by the Public School System of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Fritz, Georg (1989) The Chamorro: A History and Ethnography of the Mariana Islands. Translated by Elfriede Craddock, edited by Scott Russell. Saipan: N.M.I. Division of Historic Preservation (Second Edition). Originally published in German: "Die Chamorro: Eine Geschichte und Ethnographie der Marianen." Ethnologisches Notizblatt, 1904, 3(3):25-110 (Berlin).

Russell, Scott (1998) Tiempon I Manmofo'na: Ancient Chamorro Culture and History in the Northern Mariana Islands. Saipan: N.M.I. Division of Historic Preservation; Micronesian Archaeological Survey Report No. 32.

Spoehr, Alexander (2000) Saipan: Ethnology of a War-Devastated Island. N.M.I. Division of Historic Preservation (Second Edition). This is a reprint of the first edition published by the Chicago Natural History Museum in Fieldiana, Anthropology, Vol. 41, February 1954.

IMAGES:

Some maps used in this chapter are based on Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. U.S. Geological Survey, 1973 (Revised, 1985). 1:4,000,000.

Tribes of Taiwan map: CIA World Factbook base map, data from Vost, Cliff (1995) Travel in Taiwan: http://www.sinica.edu.tw/tit/culture/0795_TribesOfTaiwan.html

Satellite-projection maps derived using the Earth & Moon Viewer: http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html

Image of Maug Island by by Frank Trusdell is from the University of North Dakota's Volcano Land website:
http://www.volcanoworld.org/vwdocs/volc_images/southeast_asia/mariana/maug.html

Except where stated otherwise, all photographs and maps by RDK Herman, Pacific Worlds.

WEBSITES:

Vost, Cliff (1995) "Tribes of Taiwan." Online, June 15, 2003 at http://www.sinica.edu.tw/tit/culture/0795_TribesOfTaiwan.html

The Northern Islands. Site maintained by Northern Islands Mayor Joseph T. Ogumoro and Saipan Congressman William S. Torres as part of their efforts to assist displaced residents of the Northern Islands who wish to return and resettle in Anatahan, Alamagan, Pagan and Agrigan. Excellent source of information and images of the Northern Islands:
http://www.northernislands.net/

CNMI Central Statistics Division web site has many maps of information by village and by census district, in pdf format:
http://www.commerce.gov.mp/csdhome.htm

CNMI Museum of History and Culture:
http://www.cnmimuseum.org/