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Friday, February 20, 2026

THE GOOD CARLOS MAAÑAO

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  Our ancestors both welcomed the Spanish missionaries AND opposed them. One such Chamorro who embraced the Catholic faith was a young boy n...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

ONRA? PAT ONRO?

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  How does one say HONOR in Chamorro? When we sing the Fanohge Chamorro, we say ONRA . "For the honor" is "Para i onra."...
Wednesday, February 4, 2026

A CHAMORRO-GREEK PASSION

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  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...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

MENHALOM OR MEHNALOM?

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  PÅLE' ROMÁN'S 1932 CHAMORRO-SPANISH DICTIONARY Almost everybody nowadays who speaks some Chamorro says MENHALOM . I remember heari...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

KOSTUMBRE : KÅNTAN AGRADESIMIENTO

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An old custom among our grandparents' generation which has pretty much died out now is the composing of songs specifically for certain o...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

AGUEDA JOHNSTON ON COLLABORATORS

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  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...
Friday, December 26, 2025

KANTÅYE SI YU'US

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  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 ...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025

WOULD-BE GOVERNOR OF GUAM

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  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...
Monday, December 8, 2025

THE FAMOUS KAMALEN FIRE

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  Everyone has their version of the ways things happened in the past.  The following story comes from the late Sister Mary Mark Martinez, a ...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

HINENGGEN MAN ÅMKO' : CLEFT LIP

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  YANGGEN HUMUYONG I MAPOTGE' NA PALAO'AN AN GUALÅFON, SIEMPRE PIRI' I NENE If a pregnant woman goes out when the moon is full, ...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

CHAMORROS IN MANILA 1822

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  INTRAMUROS AND MANILA (Intamuros was the heart of the city) In 1822, a dozen Chamorro young men were sent, at Government expense, to learn...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

NOTES ON LEADING CHAMORRO MEN

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  In 1874, a Spaniard by the name of Francisco Chacón Lara was exiled to Guam for political reasons. Years later, he wrote a book about his ...
Friday, October 31, 2025

TAOTAOMO'NA BABY

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  I taotao siha, annai ma hahasso i taotaomo'na, ma popo'lo na man dångkulo yan man lokka' siha. Ya hunggan magåhet taiguennao p...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

"TAIGUENNAO MOHON" OR "AMEN?"

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  How should we end our prayers in Chamorro? You hear "Amen" a lot of the times but sometimes you hear " Taiguennao mohon. ...
Friday, October 17, 2025

NINA PARA TODOS

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  In many families, a female member who became a godmother ( matlina , or nina ) for one baby in the family was called NINA by everybody, ev...
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