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Chamorro Culture, Guampedia Resources, New, Our Heritage, Trends

CHamoru Migration Survey 2021

Since 2008, Guampedia.com has been recognized as a valuable community resource for and about the Mariana Islands. With a small managing team and a network of scholars and community partners, we serve a diverse audience of visitors from Guam and around the world who are interested in learning about our islands, our history and our people. Over the years we have continually developed new content to add to our collection of entries on a wide range of topics on Guam/Marianas history, environment, society, arts and culture. Our educational mission compels us to seek opportunities to engage with our audiences and ensure that we meet needs and expectations of the people who use our content

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CHamoru Quest for Self-Determination, Civic Society, Contemporary Guam Era, Contemporary Guam: Politics, Historic Eras of Guam, Politics and Government, Trends

Fanohge Famalåo’an and Fan’tachu Fama’lauan

Women Rising: Indigenous Resistance to Militarization in the Marianas Archipelago. Graduate student Sylvia Frain examined how indigenous women nonviolently resist the invisible and visible sexist and environmental politics of everyday and expanding militarization by the United States in the Marianas Archipelago.

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Art, Art, Architecture, Body Adornment, Music and Food, Civic Society, Contemporary Guam Era, Contemporary Guam: Economics, e-Publications, Economics and Commercial Development, Guam CAHA Workshops, Historic Eras of Guam, Transportation, Technology and Communications, Trends

Jump Start Your Art

Jump Start Your Art: Marketing, Resources, and Guides. The Guam Council on the Arts and Humanities Agency (CAHA) hosted Jump Start Your Art: Marketing, Resources and Guides – two workshops for artists, cultural producers and entrepreneurs in 2016. These educational and capacity building workshops enabled artists to connect with representatives from various fields in a creative business.

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e-Publications, Guampedia Resources, Historic Eras of Guam, MARC, Spanish Era, Trends

1823 Guam Vital Statistics Report

Toward the beginning of the 19th century King Fernando VII (1813-1833) was the regent in Spain when Europe was divided by two philosophies: absolutism and liberalism. Absolutism represented social and political reforms implemented prior to the French Revolution. Liberalism defended the principles of the French and American Revolutions.

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Historic Eras of Guam, Indigenous Lenses, Interpretive Essays, Spanish Era, Trends

Envisioning the Past: Near Extinction

It is difficult to envision the reality of Chamorros who survived the colonization by Spain. A 10-year-old boy who witnessed the arrival of Padre Diego Luis de San Vitores in 1668, would have seen an almost 93 percent drop in the population of his people if he lived to be 64-years-old.

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Historic Eras of Guam, Trends, US Naval Era

CHamoru/Chamorro Migration to the US

In 1898, at the twilight of the Spanish-American War, the US claimed Guam as a token of war. Though this event would bring an end to more than three centuries of Spanish colonial rule, it would also begin a new era in which the CHamoru people of the Mariana Islands would experience separation from one another.

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