A discussion program that engages Pacific Island veterans and military families in examining the experience of war through humanities sources including conflict heritage was recently undertaken in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The program proposes to assist the community with gaining a meaningful and relevant understanding of war as a shared human experience by exploring their local conflict heritage and assisting in integrating Pacific Islander veterans into a sociocultural position of authority in the history of war in their islands. The program is informed by theoretical and practice-based approaches in Indigenous and community archaeology, is interdisciplinary in design, and provides some consideration for future prospects in engagement with descendant and veteran communities.

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让太平洋岛民退伍军人和军人家庭参与艰难的遗产讨论

最近在北马里亚纳群岛联邦的塞班岛开展了一项讨论计划，让太平洋岛屿退伍军人和军人家属通过包括冲突遗产在内的人文资源研究战争经验。该计划旨在通过探索当地冲突遗产并协助将太平洋岛民退伍军人融入其岛屿战争历史中的社会文化权威地位，帮助社区获得对战争作为人类共同经历的有意义和相关的理解。该计划以土著和社区考古学中基于理论和实践的方法为基础，在设计上是跨学科的，并为与后代和退伍军人社区交往的未来前景提供了一些考虑。