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It's been almost seventy years since the people of Sumay were forcibly moved by the US Navy from their beloved town, with its fertile...

In the 1930s in Hag å t ñ a : Ocho å ñ os ha' yo' guihe na tiempo ya est å ba na tumotohge yo' gi bent å na, hu a'ata...

From Luta (Rota) comes this charming Christmas carol which borrows from several Spanish melodies and combines them into this medley. I...

In olden times, many parents lived by the philosophy "Spank first, then ask questions." One lady recounts her story, which h...

When Chamorros of Guam think of the Blessed Mother, they almost always think of Our Lady of Camarin.  When we think of the Marianas bein...

The surname Rojas does not appear in the older Guam censuses of the 1700s.  So we can assume, then, that the first Rojas in Guam came in...

Culture is never static; there are always changes of one kind or another.  Changes in the material culture - what people do, the time they h...

http://www.sffs.org/content.aspx?pageid=3656 If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, you may want to check out a movie documenting...

The fiesta of S å nta Barbara, patroness of Dededo, Guam is coming up soon (December 4). It's always good to record her hymn for t...

( In this short clip of just 22 seconds, several cultural values are manifested.  The matriarch shows herself a) the boss, commanding her...

...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. ...