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The Tribunal, or court house, in prewar Hagåtña Just how tailaye (wicked) were people living in Guam a hundred years ago? We have ...

This is such a forgotten custom that I rarely ever hear it in Guam or the other Mariana islands. Yet, I heard it in California! At ...

TAN CHONG GUTOS (Concepción Salas Mendiola) She was one of the most popular techa in all of Guam. Tan Chong was the daughter of ...

I kastiyo, kastiyon i såbio; lao an måtto i oso, dinilalak huyong i såbio gi kastiyu-ña. The castle is the castle of the wise m...

Lists of Chamorro whalers show up in many documents of that period, from around 1820 till 1900. How do we know they are Chamorro? I...

Few people know, and older people hardly remember unless they hear the name again, that there is a section of Guam's roads called Le...

This is the junction of Route 1 (Marine Corps Drive) and Route 8. Some maps refer to this as Leary Junction, while other maps say that...

Chamorros are a welcoming people. Some Chamorros think we welcome too much! As in, they say, we welcome foreign countries who occupy ...

Some people were wondering about the Chamorro used in this sign. My first comment is to say that Chamorro, like perhaps most languag...

The uniquely gifted Sidro Torres of Santa Rita saw an old photo of a man resting his head on a wooden pillow while he lay on a guåfak (...

CHE'CHO' MALAKÍS ( sloppy, clumsy or inattentive work ) When your employee photocopies your report back-to-back, but the ...

Chamorro has a number of ways of expressing the idea of "small" or "short." DIKKIKI' : is the usual word for ...

They say the best time to fish is at night, when the sun doesn't chase the fish into deeper water. In the dark of night, the fish...

P Å LE' JOSE ADA MANIBUSAN 1914 ~ 1945 Most people have heard of at least three Chamorro priests from the early years, the ...

GUÅFAK Pandanus Mat Pablo Pérez was a governor who stood out. Ruling over the Marianas for a long term, from 1848 till 1855, he c...