Prepared for the Symposium on Dependency and Development in Oceania, at the annual meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), Galveston, Texas, February 26 to March 2, 1980. Note: Please do not cite without author's consent. Scope and Content: This article considers the Melanesian people's struggle with circumstances of dependency created by social and economic development. It also examines the people's struggle to remain self-reliant in the new world and considered some of their strategies for doing so.