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In old Chamorro tradition, the photo above would be unthinkable. The belief of the older people was that pregnant woman had to avoid the...

ASAN POINT In 1922,  Asan Point became the location of a Marine Corps camp. Included was a small arms range, which probably was a co...

"AROUND THE FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI" In Spanish Most people in the old days weren't aware of the date that day. I...

Not an old, traditional song but something more recent, written and sung by Candy Taman in the 1980s. Mungnga yo' ma guaiya p...

Ha tungo' mamide si Yu'us. God knows how to measure. In English we say, "God never gives you more than you can ha...

SISTER MARÍA (MARGARITA) FRÁNQUEZ AND BISHOP BAUMGARTNER 1967 The first Catholic sisters on Guam arrived in 1905 from Baltimore, Ma...

GAI PILAN When the moon underwent an eclipse and turned blood red last January 31, a man from Luta told me that the old people have...

MAP OF OROTE PENINSULA IN 1914 In 1903, a good number of Sumay landowners sold land to the US Navy. Sumay had been revived as a vi...

A story told to me by a 90-year-old man. Dies ham na mañe’lo. Guåho mås påtgon na mafañågo yo’ gi 1928 na såkkan. (We were ten si...

Isabelo Francisco Guevara had a farm up in Ukkudu. In one field he grew suni (taro) and in another he grew kamute (sweet potato). Dece...

A Bill of Sale at a Guam store in 1902 What did mama buy over a hundred years ago? "Stores" as we know them today did no...

I HALOM TÅNO' The Jungle where the spirits dwell Manhålom gi halom tåno' si Chåro', Ling yan unos kuåntos na famagu...

Juan Crisostomo left Guam with 13 other young men in 1902 for San Francisco, California. He was only 17 years old; born around 1884. ...

You would never think! But yes; Chamorros served in the military during the American Civil War (1861 to 1865). But if you remember t...

In Spanish times, after the end of the wars between the Chamorros and Spaniards, the population of Guam never exceeded 10,000 people. Fo...