Origin of Chamorro as an Ethnic Identifier
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Trading with Spain
Spanish galleons and Chamorro canoes fill the ocean with trading activities. Visitors from the 1500s on referred to the indigenous people of the Marianas as Chamorros. Print originates from Gottfried's Newe Welt and Americanischee Historen, 1631.
Johann Ludwig Gottfried/Guam Public Library









