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  From some French scientists and scholars we do know the meaning of this truly, indigenous surname. The Freycinet Expedition (1817) was a v...

  TI SIÑA UN FOKSE HÅGA' GINEN I KAMUTE You cannot squeeze blood out of a sweet potato. This is a Chamorro variation of "you can...

  Thanks to the Spanish language, Chamorro has a word found in very few languages around the world. That word is CO-MOTHER-IN-LAW. In Spanis...

  A delightful anecdote about one of the Spanish Governors of the Marianas comes to us from reports from the Freycinet Expedition (1817-1820...

  We who lived through the Covid pandemic weren't the first, and probably won't be the last, people of the Marianas to go through su...

  JOAQUIN PARDO DE TAVERA It is said that anti-colonialist movements are often lead by descendants of the colonists. Joaquín Pardo de Tavera...

  MANUEL TORRES REYES 1925 He went by Manuel Torres Reyes, but that was the Spanish style of naming, where the father's surname comes fi...

  I first heard this song in the late 80s or maybe the early 90s, I don't remember, in Saipan. But only recently, 40 years later, did I ...

  MUNGNGA TUMOHGE I MAPOTGE' NA PALAO'AN GI PAPA' I PETTA. A  pregnant woman shouldn't stand under a door. A woman was telli...

  Our ancestors both welcomed the Spanish missionaries AND opposed them. One such Chamorro who embraced the Catholic faith was a young boy n...

  How does one say HONOR in Chamorro? When we sing the Fanohge Chamorro, we say ONRA . "For the honor" is "Para i onra."...

  ISABEL GUERRERO VENEZIANO He was Greek, she was Greek-Chamorro. But their union was not meant to be. Athanasios Malis, a young Greek man i...

  PÅLE' ROMÁN'S 1932 CHAMORRO-SPANISH DICTIONARY Almost everybody nowadays who speaks some Chamorro says MENHALOM . I remember heari...

An old custom among our grandparents' generation which has pretty much died out now is the composing of songs specifically for certain o...

  No one could ever say Agueda Johnston didn't earn her right to say what she had to say about Chamorro collaborators of the Japanese. S...