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  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...

  The tune is from composer George Frideric Handel (died 1759) and is used in more than one Chamorro hymn, but this is a Christmas one sung ...

  REAR ADMIRAL LOUIS KEMPFF Captain Richard P. Leary is best known to us as the first American Governor of Guam. But there was a prior Naval...

  Everyone has their version of the ways things happened in the past.  The following story comes from the late Sister Mary Mark Martinez, a ...

  YANGGEN HUMUYONG I MAPOTGE' NA PALAO'AN AN GUALÅFON, SIEMPRE PIRI' I NENE If a pregnant woman goes out when the moon is full, ...

  INTRAMUROS AND MANILA (Intamuros was the heart of the city) In 1822, a dozen Chamorro young men were sent, at Government expense, to learn...