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THE HOSPITAL IN PRE-WAR HAGÅTÑA Genuine hospitals were a new thing on Guam when the Americans first took over the island. Under Spai...

Where is this Chamorro guy above going? With his rooster under his arm? Accompanied by an armed man, what looks like a village head or g...

ÁNGEL LEÓN GUERRERO FLORES The Japanese bombed Sumay and other targets on Guam on December 8, 1941. They continued doing so on ...

JOAQUÍN SAN NICOLÁS LIZAMA "Batittang" There are three main clans of Lizamas in Saipan, known by their nicknames : Pil...

The witness mentioned five people, but no last names! As most of you know, nearly every Chamorro family has a nickname; a "bett...

If you've ever gone shopping with older Chamorro ladies, especially when they are on a pilgrimage or otherwise shopping in a religio...

BAYINERO Whalers Someone writing for a newspaper in 1849 called Guam the "El Dorado" of recruiters. He meant whaling rec...

KORONAN FLORES Mwar, or floral crown This song has been recorded by others, but this one is by the group Ti Napu. Un na...

Everybody today knows it as the Plaza de España. If we were to render that in English, Spain Square. But it wasn't called that ori...

http://www.kpvcollection.com/agrigan.html When the Spaniards forced the Chamorros of the northern islands (collectively called the Gani...

TALOFOFO RIVER BRIDGE IN 1946 The Americans may have taken Guam back from the Japanese on August 10, 1944, when General Geiger annou...

"BEN JOSEPH'S" PRISON PHOTO IN 1908 From Malesso' to Folsom Prison to Gold Rush Country He was from Guam and he ...

People on Guam were able to enjoy imported German beer very early in the American administration, at least for a year or so. A German...

Even today, despite much Americanization and loss of the older culture, a Chamorro funeral is not quite the same as a funeral in the US ...

The well-known singer Candy Taman took the Beatles' original Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da and gave it a Chamorro twist, making it a song abo...