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Just two days after swearing in as US Navy mess attendants, the newest bunch of Chamorro recruits assembled that morning on the deck of ...

What we call our village mayors today were our village commissioners in the 1950s and 60s. In one of those village elections for com...

Frederick Vehling was something of a showman. An immigrant from Germany to the U.S., he got some attention sailing his schooner, th...

This song was recorded by Sonny Flores and Joe Norita of Saipan back in the 1980s. It's a love song, as many Chamorro songs are, w...

Many families on Guam practice the following custom after a baby is baptized. When the baptism is over and the baptismal party leaves ...

The CNMI's first Senators are sworn into office, January 1978 When the Northern Mariana Islands were made a Commonwealth of the U...

CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION Hagåtña in the 1920s Our mañaina really did it up in the past when it came to religious celebrations. A...

Tubero, or tuba seller In 1807, Elías Topasña was killed. He was stabbed by a tubero named Francisco Quitaoji. A tubero is a maker...

Mappot ma pångon i kadu' mamaigo'. It's difficult to wake up someone pretending to be asleep. I kadu' mamaigo...

Pablo Pérez was the Spanish Governor of the Marianas for a little less than seven years, from 1848 till 1855. He was a controversial fig...

TAGA BEACH My favorite beach in all the Marianas I came across a Chamorro phrase the other day that I never heard of before. Chop...

The area we call nowadays "East Agaña" obviously wasn't always called that. Believe it or not, there was a time when E...

In the village of Santa Rita lies a street named after the late Blas dela Cruz. Most people are surprised that a man's first name ...

Bira i platu-mo yanggen guaha taotao gi lamasa na kahulo' ya må'pos. Turn your plate if someone at table gets up and lea...

AGRIGAN (photo courtesy of Angelo Villagomez) ... or Pagan . Not the picture. But the place of work. The picture is definitely Agri...