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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

HINENGGEN MAN ÅMKO' : YANGGEN MAN ATTOK I MANNOK

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  Yanggen man attok i mannok siha annai u'uchan, siempre u dinira i ichan para un råto ha'. Lao yanggen ti man attok, siempre u ucha...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

LAST WILL IN CHAMORRO

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  In 1927, a prominent and wealthy man decided to write his last will and testament as he was not in good health and wanted to be prepared f...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

ÅNTES DE UMO'O' I GÅYO

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  This is a schedule of Catholic Masses on Sundays in all the Catholic churches and public chapels on Guam in the year 1955, excluding the m...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

LOST SURNAMES : CHIBOG

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  There used to be a family in Asan called CHIBOG . The family goes all the way back to the 1700s. The name was also spelled Chiboc, Chibuc ...
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Tuesday, July 30, 2024

COMMENDED BY SPAIN

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  CIVIL ORDER OF CHARITY OF SPAIN Orden Civil de Beneficiencia From 1872 to 1876, Spanish society was rocked by a civil war. The Carlistas w...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

FIRST AMERICAN SHIP ON GUAM?

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AMERICAN FLAG IN 1792 When the Hope set sail In March of 1792, the American ship Hope , under the command of Captain Benjamin Page, left P...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024

FAMILIA : CHARSAGUA

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  CHARSAGUA is an indigenous Chamorro name. It appears in the censuses during Spanish times. The name could mean several things, all of the...
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Tuesday, July 9, 2024

KÅNTA : PÅTGON NENE

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  In 1980, a Saipan band called Tropicsette released their album Palasyon Rico . One of the biggest hits from that album was a song that ev...
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

"ATAN I BOLA" : CHAMORRO CODE

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  A former seminarian from the 1960s, who, for reasons you will understand at the end of this story, did not proceed to the priesthood, told...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

WATER BOY FOR JAPANESE BUNKER

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  THE BOKKONGO' AT ASAN POINT shortly after the American return in 1944 By 1943, the Japanese were quite sure that the Americans were on...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

KÅNTA : MÅTTO UN GÅ'GA'

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  Here's a song that, I believe, is not that old. At least I've never heard it before, and in my 62 years I have been around. The so...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

HINENGGEN MAN ÅMKO' : CLINGY BABY

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  YANGGEN MAPOTGE' TA'LO I NANA, MÅS CHETTON I PATGON-ÑA GIYA GUIYA. If a mother gets pregnant again, her child becomes more attache...
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Tuesday, June 4, 2024

PEACE CORPS ACCULTURATION

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  The Peace Corps is an independent agency of the US Government which enlists volunteers who go out to developing countries to assist in the...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

ONE-PARTY VILLAGES?

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  It used to be that Guam, in the 1950s and 60s, was almost a one-party island. The Popular Party, and then the Democratic Party, held onto ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

THE TERRITORIAL JINGLE

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  Before there were Democrats and Republicans on Guam, there were the Popular and the Territorial Parties. If the Popular (later Democrats) ...
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