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Guam Congressional Representation Act 1972
Places Guam representative in the House. On 10 April 1972, Public Law 92-271 was passed by the United States Congress, establishing the offices of Delegate
Civic Society
Madeleine Zeien Bordallo
Madeleine Z. Bordallo served as Guam’s delegate to the United States Congress from 2002 until 2018. Originally from Minnesota, Bordallo is a longtime senator of
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PASA Conference
1974 proceedings of a seminar on political status, University of Guam. In February 1974, the Pacific Asian Studies Association (PASA) at the University of Guam
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Richard Flores Taitano
Richard Flores “Dick” Taitano was a prominent figure in Guam politics and community service following the establishment of the civilian government on Guam. Taitano was
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Angel Leon Guerrero Santos
Perhaps no individual figure in Guam’s recent history epitomizes the social and political activism of the 1990s more than Angel Anthony “Anghet” Leon Guerrero Santos,
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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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Political Status Commissions
In the 1960s and 1970s, several formal entities were organized by the Government of Guam to help assess the island’s political needs and desires and
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Guam Constitutional Conventions (ConCon)
Guam residents seek more self government. In an effort to address deficiencies in Guam’s relationship with the United States, two constitutional conventions were convened by
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CHamoru Registry and the Decolonization Registry
In the early 1960s when the United Nations passed Resolution 1514 (XV) declaring that peoples in colonized territories had the right to self-determination, many non-self-governing
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OPI-R: Organization of People for Indigenous Rights
Although Chamorros have a long history of resisting the different colonial administrations that have governed the island, the latter decades of the 20th century are