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This recipe is from Lepblon Fina’tinas Para Guam: Guam Cookbook, 1985. Reprinted with permission from...
This recipe is from Lepblon Fina’tinas Para Guam: Guam Cookbook, 1985. Reprinted with permission from...
This recipe is from Lepblon Fina’tinas Para Guam: Guam Cookbook, 1985. Reprinted with permission from...
The megapode lives in limestone forests and coconut groves. Eggs are not tended by the parents but incubated...
The Micronesian Kingfishers are somewhat secretive. They are known to inhabit limestone and ravine forests,...
The Micronesian Honeyeater can be found in most forests edges and flowering trees in urban areas near...
These birds live in limestone caves and sink holes in limestone and ravine forests. Their nests are constructed...
The totot lives in the limestone forest and in secondary growth canopies. They feed on fruit, largely...
An appetizer that consists of shrimp and vegetables; it is deep fried and very similar to a corn fri...
The Gå’ga’ Karisu’s name means dweller among the reeds. It lives in tangantangan thickets, limestone...
This recipe is from Lepblon Fina’tinas Para Guam: Guam Cookbook, 1985. Reprinted with permission from...
This recipe is from Lepblon Fina’tinas Para Guam: Guam Cookbook, 1985. Reprinted with permission from...
This recipe is from Lepblon Fina’tinas Para Guam: Guam Cookbook, 1985. Reprinted with permission from...
It lives in a variety of habitats preferring limestone forest but also strand and ravine forests and...
The Ko’ko’ is a large rail, standing 11 to 12 inches or about 28 centimeters tall. It lived in secondary...
The Guam flycatcher was secretive. It lived in limestone and ravine forests, mangroves and tangantangan...
Nosa' live in native limestone and ravine forest trees as well as tangantangan thickets. Nests are placed...
The limestone and ravine forests of Guam have historically supported 14 species of terrestrial birds....
At 13 degrees north latitude and 144 degrees east longitude, the island of Guam is the largest in size...
Marine fishes fulfill several important functions for Guam. Traditionally, fishing on coral reefs has...
Green sea turtles were once a common species of sea turtles found in Guam’s waters. They can still be...
Bats in the old World family Pteropodidae have very large eyes and excellent eyesight in low light, but...
Created by public law in 1964, the Kumision I Fino’ Chamorro, or Chamorro Language Commission, was established...
Rooted in the oral tradition, the Chamorro people’s transition toward the written word is a relatively...
Though the Chamorro language was spoken by the people of the Marianas long before European expeditions...
The historical record of suicide on Guam extends back to the mid-19th century. Father Aniceto Ibáñez...
In 1962 the Naval Hospital provided the services of a typical community hospital to active duty members,...
In 1966, a two-year associate of science degree nursing program began at the College of Guam, the predecessor...
A significant change in the use and availability of nurse-midwives occurred in the 1950s and 1960s. The...
On March 15, 1946, in an attempt to further improve medical care for the rapidly expanding island population,...
When the US military recaptured Guam from Japanese forces in July to August 1944, temporary field hospitals...
At the end of World War II, in August 1945, a three-year nursing program was re-established in Guam by...
No official records of health activities during the Japanese occupation are known to have survived World...
The first US Naval Hospital in Guam was established in Hagåtña in August 1899 by Surgeon Philip Leach....
Because of a shortage of personnel Navy Medical Officers began teaching local women to be health care...
From 1899 to 1941 US Marines given the title “Insular Patrolman” were selected to live in Guam’s villages...
In the first decade of the 20th century, the US Navy embarked on a policy of forcibly segregating Chamorros...
Spanish built first leprosarium. As early as the 1600s, Western explorers documented seeing Chamorros...
The first medical facilities and dispensaries of the US Naval Era (1898 - 1941) were established shortly...
The stories of Guam’s pattera, or nurse-midwives, and their history give insight into their personal...
The CHamoru women who were trained as nurse-midwives by the US Navy assisted with home births in Guam...
Ramon Manalisay Sablan (1902-1970) was the first CHamoru medical doctor. He is also remembered as an...
Congress chartered the Guam Chapter of the American Red Cross on 23 October 1916 with signatures of then...
The ancient Chamorros/CHamorus were generally healthy people. They were well built and appeared to be...
The 19th century trepang trade was a profit-driven industry throughout the Pacific, most notably in Melanesia...
The Treaty of Zaragoza was ratified in 1529 between the king of Spain and Emperor Charles V, and João...
The Treaty of Tordesillas was ratified by the Crown of Castile and the King of Portugal in 1494. The...
Pedro Sanchez Pericon was the captain of the Spanish galleon San Geronimo (also referred to as San Jerónimo),...
Guam of the late-18th century only had a population of about 2,000. The CHamoru people were in a state...
Ferdinand Magellan (1480 - 1521), born in Portugal and killed in Cebu, Philippines, was a Portuguese...
The rise of the Dutch maritime commercial activities in the Pacific and Asia in the early 17th century...
Andrés de Urdaneta (1498-1568), a Spanish Augustinian friar born in Villafranca de Ordizia in the Basque...
Although there are Chinese records from 1226 mentioning islands located in the area of the Philippines,...
Louis Claude de Freycinet (1779 – 1841) was born in France, and at the age of 14, he joined the French...
French explorer Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville lead two French Navy expeditions into Oceania....
Early European observations of the CHamorus people represent a significant source of ethnographical and...
The Victoria was one of five ships of Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet during the expedition to find the Spice...
The Trinidad was the flag ship of Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet in its expedition for the Spice Islands....
The Nuestra Señora de la Concepción was a Spanish galleon operating as part of the lucrative Manila-Acapulco...
Just after three frigates under his command had captured the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Encarnacion...
William Dampier was an English buccaneer, sea captain, chronicler (he kept a detailed journal of his...
William “Bully” Hayes was a blackbirder (slave trader) and criminal who in the 19th century terrorized...
The next recorded visitor to the Mariana Islands after explorer Ferdinand Magellan, was British adventurer...
John Eaton and William Ambrosia Cowley, English pirates, visited Guam in March 1685. Jesuit Father Juan...
Although the word "pirate" is used in early documents, secondary literature on Guam’s history has also...
In 1597 the Dutch began raiding into the Pacific, hoping that by attacking the Spanish colonies and ships...
John Clipperton, a British pirate who was made captain of one of the Spanish ships taken by William Dampier...
US Naval Governor Edward Dorn replaced all CHamoru justices in 1910 with commissioned officers from the...
In the Pacific, no other group of people was more reviled than the beachcomber. Considered degenerate...
Many of the first US Naval governors of Guam attempted to reorganize the court system. Guam’s first appointed...
Although Guam became an American possession in 1898, it was not until 1933 that the laws of Guam began...
Puntan and Fu’una are the Chamorro/CHamoru creation gods. Puntan, a male, and Fu’una, a female, are brother...
Regardless of where islands are situated throughout the vast Pacific, the physical environment—varying...
The origin of Guam’s indigenous people has been a matter of considerable speculation for more than a...
A common political fallacy is that democracy was a babe born in Guam during the mid-20th century under...
Since the claim by Spain over the Mariana Islands in 1565 and the settlement of Jesuit missionaries and...
Few peoples in the world have had continued colonial status for the past 330 years. However, the CHamoru...
To understand the evolution of tourism in Guam, it is useful to reflect on events that have happened...
It is difficult to envision the reality of Chamorros who survived the colonization by Spain. A 10-year-old...
Captain Henry Glass’ bloodless seizure of Guam on 20-21 June 1898, his quick departure without establishing...
Colonialism is a process of usurping an existing order or orders of meaning for a territory or a people,...
The Guam Law Library was established in 1978 to serve the growing needs of Guam’s legal community and...
Guampedia Author. Wakako Higuchi earned her PhD in Pacific and Asian history from The Australian National...
Guampedia Author. Vincent P. Diego earned a BA in biology from the University of Guam in 1995. He went...
Guampedia Author. Steven Amesbury earned a PhD in zoology from the University of Hawai'i and holds an...
Guampedia Author. Sally Y. Tsuda earned an MSN and BSN in nursing from the University of Hawai'i in 1978...
Guampedia Author. Roy T. Tsuda (1939-2020) earned a PhD in botany with a minor in zoology from University...
Guampedia Advisor and Author. Rosanna Perez Barcinas is a locally grown product of Josefina Perez and...
Guampedia Author. Rosalind Hunter-Anderson earned a BA and an MA in anthropology from the University...
Guampedia Author. Robert York earned an MA in anthropology with an emphasis in archaeology from the University...
Guampedia Author. Robert Anacletus Underwood, a former member of the US Congress, was the president of...
Guampedia Author. Robert Michael Sajnovsky earned a BFA from University of Notre Dame in 1963 and an...
Guampedia Author. Robert F. Rogers is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point...
Guampedia Author. Robert Haddock grew up in Detroit, Michigan, and earned both a bachelor of science...
Guampedia Author. Rebecca A. Stephenson earned an MA and a PhD in anthropology from the University of...
Guampedia Author. Randall L. Workman holds a BA in psychology from University of Northern Iowa and he...
Guampedia Author. Peter A. San Nicolas is the Agana Heights village historian. He is a former director...
Guampedia Author. Patricia Long Diego holds a bachelor of arts degree in speech communication with cum-laude...
Guampedia Author. Nicholas Yamashita Quinata earned a BA in history and journalism with a minor in anthropology...
Guampedia Author. Michael R. Clement Jr. is an Assistant Professor of History and Micronesian Studies...
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