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Friday, February 20, 2015

CHAMORRO SERMON ON CONFESSION

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Well, part of a sermon.  From the 1960s Un Påle' eståba na mamamaisen kuestion siha pot i katesismo. ( A priest was asking questio...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

THE LEGEND OF AS MÅTMOS

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Many years ago, before the Spaniards came, there was a village on Luta called As M å tmos. M å tmos means "drown." The villag...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

ESTORIAN I KAKKAK

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Kakkak ( Yellow Bittern - Ixobrychus sinensis ) An tiempon Kuaresma, manayuyunat i taotao . ( During Lenten season, the people fas...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

SUPPLYING THE WHALERS

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Although the heyday of the whaling era was already over, some foreign merchants thought there was still money to be made on Guam supplyi...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

DESPEDIDA LETTER

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Sometime after New Year's, 1972, Juan Aguon Sanchez, a well-known civic leader in Saipan, learned that the pastor of Saipan (it was ...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

THE GUAM CAPUCHINS AND LOURDES

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Dedication of OL of Lourdes Church, Yigo May 5, 1965 The Capuchins on Guam established most of the parishes on Guam, but Yigo stands...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

SERENITY PRAYER IN CHAMORRO

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The English version is well-known : God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the thin...
Monday, February 9, 2015

ANNAI LALÅLO' SI PÅLE' SKÅT UN BIÅHE

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Monsignor Oscar Luján Calvo Although he was honored with the title Monsignor, Chamorros back in the day always called him "Påle...
Thursday, February 5, 2015

ETTON. NO, NOT THE ENGLISH SCHOOL ETON.

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Some of the streets in some of our villages are named after long-forgotten areas in the outskirts of the village. Take, for example, Ett...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

HEARTBREAKING LETTER

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In 1912, the U.S. Naval Government of Guam decided to send island residents they deemed to have contracted Hansen's disease (usually...
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Monday, January 26, 2015

MALAIGLESIA : SEEKING REFUGE IN THE CHURCH

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Under Spain, if you were being pursued by the law, or indeed by anyone, you had the right to run to the church and be protected from you...
Friday, January 23, 2015

KÅNTAN CHAMORRITA

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Yanggen oga'an hao na sinedda' ti un tinaka' talo'åne; hahasso yo' bonitan måta yanggen håfa hao hu sangåne. ...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015

BELEMBAUTUYAN

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Chamorro Studies staff learn about the belembautuyan guampdn.com The belembautuyan is considered a native musical instrument in th...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

AI SI ANTONIO

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ANTONIO LUJÁN There was a saying applied to the Chamorro men who left the Marianas to serve on the whaling ships, most of them not ...
Friday, January 16, 2015

GRANDMA'S TEXTBOOK

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The Spaniards ran schools in the Marianas. The first and the best was founded by Sanvitores in Hagåtña, the Colegio de San Juan de Letrá...
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