"Knights, Plights Flights" documents three Pacific island communities living in Fiji. Nearly all current community members were born in Fiji, and for many, generations of their descendants were born in Fiji as well. These people are outsiders however third class citizens, landless, with limited voting rights, and unable to access some government programmes reserved for the mainstream.The stories of how these three Pacific communities ended up in Fiji are very different.Many thousands of indentured labourers from the Solomon Islands were commandeered and transported to Fiji in atrocious conditions. The labourers worked on sugar, cotton, and coconut plantations and many stayed in Fiji after their contracts ended. They formed communities with the help of the Anglican Church, whose support to these communities was the keystone of its mission in Fiji.Some 2,000 km. from Fiji lies the island of Banaba, part of Kiribati. In the 1940s the Banaban people were displaced from their island by Japanese invaders, who scattered them to work in labour camps on other Pacific islands. After the war ended, the Banabans were gathered up by the British colonial authorities and placed on Rabi Island in Fiji.The Banaban saga is two stories one which mirrors the Avatar story of the Navi people battling voracious miners. Banaba was an extremely valuable source of phosphate deposits, and over the years, it was mined so extensively that the island was considered uninhabitable hence the move to...

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