Envisioning the Past: Near Extinction Table of Contents Share This Interpretive essay: Colonization tragic for Chamorros It is difficult to envision the reality of Chamorros who survived the colonization by…
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Interpretive essay: Subject of controversy Since the claim by Spain over the Mariana Islands in 1565 and the settlement of Jesuit missionaries and conquest of the CHamoru people in the…
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History of Democracy in Guam Table of Contents Share This Interpretive essay: Democracy movement goes back to 1800s A common political fallacy is that democracy was a babe born in…
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Origin of Guam’s Indigenous People Table of Contents Share This Interpretive essay: Linguistic issues and theories The Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific, CartoGIS The origin of…
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Proa and Navigation Saina’s Maiden Voyage. Courtesy of Ron J. Castro Table of Contents Share This Interpretive essay: Block concept Regardless of where islands are situated throughout the vast Pacific,…
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Folktale: Puntan and Fu’una: Gods of Creation Table of Contents Share This The CHamoru Society. Photo by Victor Consaga at Guampedia filming of I Tinituhon. Interpretive essay: CHamoru/Chamorro cultural values…
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Adventurers: Beachcombers Table of Contents Share This Castaways and mediators In the Pacific, no other group of people was more reviled than the beachcomber. Considered degenerate characters, they have been…
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Adventurers: John Clipperton and George Shelvocke Table of Contents Share This The Success The Success by John Lodge, 1788 John Clipperton, a British pirate who was made captain of one…
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Adventurers: John Eaton and William Cowley Table of Contents Share This CHamorus/Chamorros asked for help Many European visitors to Guam noted that CHamorus/Chamorros came out to greet and trade with…
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Adventurer: Oliver van Noort Table of Contents Share This Dutch expedition In 1597 the Dutch began raiding into the Pacific, hoping that by attacking the Spanish colonies and ships they…
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