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Gender and Guam History Textbooks

Women in Chamorro history. The importance of women in Chamorro history is well documented, and many Guampedia entries reinforce this point. In the Chamorro cosmology,

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CHamoru Quest for Self-Determination

CHamorus Yearn for Freedom

Interpretive essay: WWII made indelible impact on CHamorus. To this day, whenever we speak of the period before the “war” and after the “war” we

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Spanish Era Social Classes
CHamoru Quest for Self-Determination

Guam’s Political Development

Guam’s colonized past under Spain. When the Europeans came to the Mariana Islands in the 16th and 17th centuries, they found a vigorous and highly

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CHamoru Quest for Self-Determination

CHamoru/Chamorro Self-Determination

Self-Determination: A promise for true democracy. To understand what the process of self-determination means for many Chamorus on Guam, one must have some knowledge of

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CHamoru Quest for Self-Determination

Angel LG Santos

Matatnga. In 1993, Angel Leon Guerrero Santos, the spokesman for the Chamorro activist group Nasion Chamoru was invited to Hawaii to join a gathering of

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Chamorro Culture

Women in Politics

This speech was presented at Guampedia’s Chamorro Heritage Series, 7 November 2012, Latte of Freedom Hall of Governors, Ricardo J. Bordallo Governor’s Complex, Adelup.

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