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San Roque Church, Saipan I was pastor of San Roque parish in Saipan for three wonderful years (1991-1994).  The village counted 800 pe...

HAGÅTÑA 1920s In the foreground is the barrio of San Ignacio, where the Spanish and South American officers and soldiers lived in th...

På'go na Damenggo, malago' yo' ta'lo hu kuentuse hamyo pot i mañaina yan famagu'on. ( This Sunday I want to speak t...

"Insurrecto" was the term applied by the Spaniards, and later carried over by the Americans, to Filipino fighters for that nati...

In English, we have all kinds of euphemisms and slang terms for being pregnant.  Some are considered offensive, and some are socially ac...

On Tinian, sugar was king in the 1920s and 30s One of the neatest things about Tinian is the abundance of Japanese-era remnants that e...

Åntes de para un hånao ai fangågågao lisensia! Yanggen magof yo' un hånao; yan ti magof yo' pasiensia. (Before you lea...

SUCCESSES Early 1941 was a good time for agriculture, the main occupation in Malesso'.   Tomatoes and corn in particular did very...

Village leaders in the Marianas during the Spanish period were not elected in the way we are familiar with today.  In the late 1800s, on...

Wedding of Pedro & Maria Nauta, 1947 Talak hiyong gi bentan å -mo Ya un ekkungok yo’ kerida mia Ya bai hu kant å ye hao p å ’g...

ÅNTES 1950s Family Shoe Store was the first shoe store on Guam.  Shoes, of course, were sold in other stores before and after the wa...

Sais å ñ os despues de umassagua i dos, ha sodda' un palao'an na primu- ñ a mina' ku å ttro gr å do i asagu å - ñ a. ( Six ...

Not all folk beliefs are consistent. People are people, and come up with a variety of beliefs that are the same in some ways, and diff...

My informant was in his early teens when the Japanese invaded Guam in December of 1941.  He prefers to remain anonymous. When the peop...

In the village of H å gat there has been, for many years, a small number of families who go by the last name Taia ñ ao or Taie ñ ao. ...