On a small Pacific island, roughly twelve thousand people have restored a name that colonizers altered more than a century ago for the sake of their own pronunciation ease. The Republic of Naoero — formerly known internationally as Nauru — enacted this change not through referendum but through constitutional amendment, on the reasoning that a people do not vote on who they already are. The act joins a longer human story of decolonization: the slow, deliberate work of recovering what was quietly taken, and insisting that identity does not require outside permission to exist.