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Spanish Era: Religion

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Spanish Colonialism and CHamoru Responses: The Aberigua Project

Addresses misrepresentations focused in missionization. The research project Aberigua investigates the impact that Spanish colonialism had on CHamorus from a decolonial-depatriarchal standpoint aimed at redressing misrepresentations of communities, territories, practices, values, cultural logic and ways of being. It scrutinizes the case-specific details of colonial strategies, with a focus on Jesuit missionization, and subsequent native responses, including processes of cultural identity, change and continuity. It endorses a long-term perspective that includes investigations on Latte rationalities to understand the real impact brought by the colony.ย 

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Nobenan I Niรฑo Jesus-Novena to the Christ Child

Every year, during the Christmas season, Catholic families gather for nine nights of devotional prayers reciting the Nobenan Niรฑo, a nobena (novena) in honor of Christโ€™s birth. For Chamorro families, the nightly prayers may be said in Chamorro or English.

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Fray Juan Pobre de Zamora

In March 1602, Franciscan lay brother Fray Juan Pobre de Zamora deserted a ship off the shores of Rota, an island just north of Guam. Although he was only in the Mariana Islands for seven months, he provided an invaluable historical contribution through descriptive written accounts of the lives, customs, and culture of Chamorros/CHamorus in the early 17th century.

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