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Spanish Era Gallery

Art, Architecture, Body Adornment, Music and Food

  1. Belembaotuyan
  2. Blacksmithing
  3. de Silleria
  4. Mampostería
  5. Pole and Thatched Homes
  6. Pumeska: Hunters on Land and Sea

Biographies

  1. Agualin
  2. Andrés Blázquez
  3. Andres de Urdaneta
  4. Bartola Garrido
  5. Bishop Joaquín Felipe Oláiz
  6. Bishop Miguel Angel Urteaga Olano
  7. Ciriaco de Espiritu Santo
  8. Domingo Medina de Santo Tomás
  9. Father Aniceto Ibáñez del Carmen
  10. Father Diego Luis de San Vitores
  11. Father Luís de Medina
  12. Fray Antonio de Los Ángeles
  13. Fray Francisco Resano
  14. Fray Juan Pobre de Zamora
  15. Governor Juan Marina
  16. Governor Manuel Muro
  17. Hineti
  18. Hurao
  19. John Clipperton and George Shelvocke
  20. John Eaton and William Cowley
  21. José de Quiroga y Losada
  22. Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville
  23. Kepuha: Quipuha
  24. Louis Claude de Freycinet
  25. Luís de Torres
  26. Manuel de San Juan Bautista
  27. Matå’pang: Matapang
  28. Miguel López de Legazpi
  29. Padre Jose Bernardo Palomo
  30. Pedro Calungsod
  31. Pedro Sanchez Pericón
  32. Sirena
  33. Tolahi
  34. William “Bully” Hayes
  35. William Dampier
  36. Woodes Rogers
  37. Yula

Environment and Natural Resources

  1. Karabao: Water Buffalo
  2. Låncho: Ranch

European Exploration, Trade, and Scientific Studies

  1. Beachcombers
  2. European Colonization’s Impact on Trade in Micronesia
  3. Galleon: Concepción
  4. Galleon: San Pablo
  5. Galleon: Trinidad
  6. Galleon: Victoria
  7. Island of Guam by William Haswell
  8. Joseph Paul Gaimard’s 1819 CHamoru Vocabulary
  9. La Nao de China: The Spanish Treasure Fleet System
  10. Manila Galleon Crew Members
  11. Manila Galleon Trade Route-La Nao de China: A Legacy in the Marianas
  12. Mapping the Pacific
  13. Navigation and Cargo of the Manila Galleons
  14. Pirates on Guam
  15. Whaling Influence in the Marianas

Government and Economic Systems

  1. Criollo
  2. Forzado System and the Mariana Islands
  3. History of Democracy on Guam
  4. Indios
  5. Insulares
  6. Land Ownership on Guam
  7. Mannakhilo’ and Mannakpåpa’
  8. Mestizo (Mestisu)
  9. Mulatos and Negros
  10. Natural
  11. Peninsulares
  12. Social Classes in Traditional CHamoru Society
  13. Spanish Coinage in Guam
  14. Treaty of Tordesillas
  15. Treaty of Zaragoza
  16. Trepang Trade

Health and Medicine

  1. 1823 Guam Vital Statistics Report
  2. Envisioning the Past: Near Extinction
  3. Spanish Response to CHamoru Depopulation

Language and Education

  1. Acculturation in the Spanish Era
  2. Adelbert von Chamisso’s 1817 CHamoru Vocabulary
  3. Colegio de San Juan de Letrán
  4. Educational Institutions during the Spanish Era
  5. Escuela de Niñas
  6. Financial Support of Education
  7. Influential Governors in Education
  8. Origin of CHamoru as an Ethnic Identifier
  9. Role of Education in the Preservation of Guam’s Indigenous Language

Migrations of People

  1. Carolinians on Guam
  2. Filipinos on Guam

Religion and Cultural Practices

  1. Augustinian Recollects
  2. Baotismo: Baptism
  3. Bela: Wake or Vigil
  4. Burego’
  5. Capuchins
  6. Chaife’s Lost Soul
  7. Jesuit Administration of the Marianas
  8. Jesuits: Society of Jesus
  9. Kumaire/Måle’
  10. Kumpaire/Pari’
  11. Marriage Traditions
  12. Matrimony and Social Change in the Marianas during Spanish Times
  13. Men’s Roles
  14. Nina/Ninu
  15. Nobena: Novena (Catholic Devotional Prayers)
  16. Nobenan I Niño Jesus-Novena to the Christ Child
  17. Other Noted Rectors
  18. Santa Marian Kamalen
  19. Sirena
  20. Techa: Traditional Prayer Leader
  21. Transmission of Christianity into CHamoru Culture
  22. Women’s Roles

Villages and Places

  1. Fort San Jose
  2. Fort San Luis
  3. Fort Santa Agueda
  4. Fort Santiago
  5. Fort Santo Angel
  6. Fort Soledad
  7. Lujan House
  8. San Dionisio Catholic Church, Humåtak
  9. Spanish Forts of Guam Overview

Weapons and Warfare

  1. Warfare