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  There are many stories of pregnancies outside of marriage in olden Guam, but this court case from 1929 is interesting to me because it inv...

  Juan was just 12 and Francisco was just 11, but they may have been the youngest individuals ever arrested in Guam history, at least before...

  According to the records left by the Freycinet Expedition, a visit to Guam (1817) by French scholars and scientists, FAULOS means "na...

  Attorney Michael White from Saipan sent me pics of two postcards written in Chamorro from the Northern Marianas during the German Administ...

  CATHOLIC SISTERS IN PREWAR SAIPAN but no Catholic Sisters were allowed on Guam Every Catholic mission throughout the world wanted religiou...

  ROSALÍA'S GRAVE with sister Carmen Pedro Guevara Dumanal, better-known-as Pedro'n Tagålo, was a wanted man by the Japanese in 1943...

  From some French scientists and scholars we do know the meaning of this truly, indigenous surname. The Freycinet Expedition (1817) was a v...

  TI SIÑA UN FOKSE HÅGA' GINEN I KAMUTE You cannot squeeze blood out of a sweet potato. This is a Chamorro variation of "you can...

  Thanks to the Spanish language, Chamorro has a word found in very few languages around the world. That word is CO-MOTHER-IN-LAW. In Spanis...

  A delightful anecdote about one of the Spanish Governors of the Marianas comes to us from reports from the Freycinet Expedition (1817-1820...

  We who lived through the Covid pandemic weren't the first, and probably won't be the last, people of the Marianas to go through su...

  JOAQUIN PARDO DE TAVERA It is said that anti-colonialist movements are often lead by descendants of the colonists. Joaquín Pardo de Tavera...

  MANUEL TORRES REYES 1925 He went by Manuel Torres Reyes, but that was the Spanish style of naming, where the father's surname comes fi...

  I first heard this song in the late 80s or maybe the early 90s, I don't remember, in Saipan. But only recently, 40 years later, did I ...

  MUNGNGA TUMOHGE I MAPOTGE' NA PALAO'AN GI PAPA' I PETTA. A  pregnant woman shouldn't stand under a door. A woman was telli...