On a Wednesday evening in late July, the Pacific island nation long known as Nauru formally reclaimed its ancestral name, Naoero — a word its people never stopped using, even as the world adopted a colonial mispronunciation. Parliament had laid the constitutional groundwork in May, and President David Adeang, reasoning that a referendum was unnecessary for what was already the people's living identity, moved directly to implementation. For a nation of roughly 12,000 souls on one of the world's smallest islands, the act of naming oneself anew — or rather, naming oneself truly for the first time