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...finding out who your relatives are. Sometimes very close relatives!  Ahem. Grandma says one day, " Fan minagago hamyo!  P å...

http://beachcomberonsaipan.blogspot.com/2007/12/ingredients.html I heard recently about an old custom of making å fok , the slaked lim...

In our culture, be careful what and how you do, say and dress.  Because all is fair game when it comes to getting stuck with a nickname. ...

A brief stop in Hawaii gave me the opportunity to visit an elderly Chamorro lady from Saipan who is trying to recover enough strength in ...

Before the war, Bishop Olaiz organized the Saint Vincent de Paul Society for the relief of the very poor.  All over the world, local cha...

Who can forget Margaret Dumont, the actress, always bedecked with the most elegant jewelry. In Chamorro, we call that k å tsa . It me...

LIBI Å NO In Chamorro, when something is easy to do, we say it is libi å no . Libi å no ma sodda' .  Easy to find. Libi å no ...

My stateside dad has been living on Guam continuously since 1959 and is definitely "local statesider."  It got me wondering wha...

M Å SMAI : drenched, soaked More people are familiar with the word fotgon .  But fotgon means wet; m å smai goes further.  It means...

September 24 is the feast of Our Lady of Mercy.  Up in Saipan, since 1928, the Mercedarian Missionaries of Berriz (Spain) have been mini...

Nowadays there is a bit of an attempt to keep praying in Chamorro alive, but, as younger Chamorros who are less proficient in the langua...

Guam's deer, or ben å do , were brought to the island by Governor Mariano Tobias in the early 1770s. They became so rampant that th...

29. Ku å nto siha na Yu'us guaha? T å ya' m å s na un Yu'us ha' na maisa. 30. Ku å nto siha na Petsona guaha gi as Yu...

In Saipan and Guam, we basically eat the same food and call them the same names, but sometimes the names are totally different.  If you ...

KOTLA A huge branch of the Pangelinan family is better-known-as the Kotla family. Where Chamorro families got their nicknames is of...