This book is about the history of the people of Palau under the foreign occupying and ruling nations to independent nation of Palau is being told by someone who was a part of the struggle from the colonial setting of the US Trust Territory to the Independent Republic of Palau which summarily touches on previous colonial occupation of the Island by Spain, Germany and Japan. The writer was involved in the historical exercise of self-determination of the people of Palau at the time when the people of Micronesia were granted the right to determine their future political status from the United States Trust Territory as one political entity created after the World War II.