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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...

  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...

  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 ...

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

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

  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...