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Lourdes Aflague "Lou" Leon Guerrero, (1950 - ) was elected as the first woman governor of Guam in November...
Guampedia Board President. Borja Enriquez is the Senior Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs...
Former Board Member. Baltazar “Bal” Aguon serves as the secretary-treasurer for the Guampedia Foundation,...
First postmaster of Guam, first Secretary to the Governor during US Naval Era. Atanasio Taitano Perez...
Long time senator. Vicente (ben) Cabrera Pangelinan (1955-2014), known as “Senator ben,” was a fighter...
3rd Workshop in Preparation for the 12th Festival of Pacific Arts. Guam hosted the Festival of the Pacific...
In westernized Guam the cardinal directions are lågu for north, håya for south, kåttan for east and luchan...
Nearly 500 Americans from Guam taken to camps in Japan. After Guam was captured by the Japanese 10 December...
Hid in Guam jungles. Shoichi Yokoi (1915 - 1997) was a sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army, stationed...
Guam is attacked. In the early morning of 8 December 1941, Japanese war planes flew to Guam from Saipan...
Pan Am employees become Wake Island Defenders. Before the outbreak of World War II, 45 Chamorro men were...
Japan attacks the island. Saburu Kurusu, diplomatic pouch in hand, stepped off the Pan American Airways...
All Micronesian islands under Japan's rule except Guam. In the US Naval Era of Guam (1898-1941), life...
Killed 117 Japanese stragglers, captured five. Although Guam was liberated from Japan by the US military...
Largest latte house in the Marianas. Found nowhere else in the world, latte first appeared in the Mariana...
Hiding in the jungle. After the US declared the WWII invasion of Guam to be over on August 10, 1944,...
In 2016, Guam hosted the Festival of the Pacific Arts (FestPac), a region-wide festival celebrating the...
I Tinituhon is a Guampedia film produced by Fiesta Productions. It is a film based on Guam's creation...
Audio samples of recording artists Flora Baza Quan and Johnny Sablan.
Regional Arts Festival Set for Guam in 2016. In 2016, Guam will host the Festival of the Pacific Arts,...
Art and History organizations offered workshop to prepare. In 2016, Guam hosted the Festival of the Pacific...
In 2016, Guam hosted the Festival of the Pacific Arts (FestPac), a region-wide festival celebrating the...
51 Papers and Posters on Marianas History. The University of Guam, Guam Preservation Trust, Guampedia,...
The conference theme, “One Archipelago, Many Stories,” highlighted the deep and rich history of the Mariana...
From where do the original inhabitants of the Marianas originate? How long ago did they first settle...
Long studied, now disappearing disease. Lytico-bodig is the local name for a complex of neurological...
Guampedia Author. A graduate of John F. Kennedy High School, Attorney Leevin Camacho earned a Bachelor’s...
Guampedia Author. Cara Flores-Mays is a mother and small-business owner specializing in web and media...
Guampedia Author. Eddie Leon Guerrero Benavente was a Chamorro activist leader since the early 1980s...
Guam's colonized past under Spain. When the Europeans came to the Mariana Islands in the 16th and 17th...
Guampedia Author. After receiving a BA in Anthropology at the University of Cincinnati, Laurel Monnig...
Self-Determination: A promise for true democracy. To understand what the process of self-determination...
Significant developments relative to the return of lands to the people of Guam have occurred since the...
Granted Congressional US citizenship to the people of Guam. The Organic Act of Guam is federal legislation...
In the 1960s the United Nations issued Resolution 1514 (XV) "Declaration on the Granting of Independence...
Tinituhun. On 21 July 1991 at Latte Stone Memorial Park in Hagåtña, a small group of Chamorro men and...
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Government of Guam created the Commission on Self-Determination (CSD) to...
In 2006, the United States and Japan signed an agreement known as the Roadmap for Realignment Implementation. This...
Places Guam representative in the House. On 10 April 1972, Public Law 92-271 was passed by the United...
Madeleine Z. Bordallo served as Guam's delegate to the United States Congress from 2002 until 2018. Originally...
1974 proceedings of a seminar on political status, University of Guam. In February 1974, the Pacific...
Richard Flores “Dick” Taitano was a prominent figure in Guam politics and community service following...
Perhaps no individual figure in Guam’s recent history epitomizes the social and political activism of...
Matatnga. In 1993, Angel Leon Guerrero Santos, the spokesman for the Chamorro activist group Nasion Chamoru...
In the 1960s and 1970s, several formal entities were organized by the Government of Guam to help assess...
The Guam Elective Governor Act was passed by the United States Congress on 11 September 1968 and granted...
Guam residents seek more self government. In an effort to address deficiencies in Guam’s relationship...
In the early 1960s when the United Nations passed Resolution 1514 (XV) declaring that peoples in colonized...
When Guam was ceded to the United States after the Spanish-American War in 1898, the island fell under...
Although Chamorros have a long history of resisting the different colonial administrations that have...
Ancient wisdom. Within the region known as Micronesia is a chain of islands called the Marianas, which...
Following the conclusion of the four-month long Spanish-American war in 1898, Guam was placed under the...
The Commission on Decolonization was established by the 24th Guam Legislature in 1997 to enhance the...
The goal of education in any society is to impart knowledge and to equip people with the tools necessary...
CHamoru activism in the 1970s. In the 1970s, several CHamoru activist groups organized to resist both...
30 Years in the making. Guam’s Commonwealth Act was both a continuation of indigenous rights struggles...
Partitioning the Mariana Islands at the peace table in Versailles was undoubtedly one of America's greatest...
The Santa Ana Chapel was built in the 1950s and dedicated in 1968. In 2008, the Chapel was rebuilt and...
Early Guam newspapers. Two publications that emerged during the US Naval Administration of Guam (1898-1941)...
Pacific Islands, including the Mariana Islands, often have many small native snails. Many of the species...
Guam Community College created a series of 16 videos in Fino' Håya, the indigenous language of the island...
The United States began its colonial administration of Guam in 1898. Today, Guam remains a colony of...
Educator and Public Servant. Gloria Borja Nelson (1935 – 2012) was a former Guam Department of Education...
Curator and professor of biology. University of Guam (UOG) professor, Dr. Lynn Raulerson (1937-2012),...
This video was presented at Guampedia’s CHamoru Heritage Series, 5 December 2012, Latte of Freedom Hall...
This speech was presented at Guampedia’s CHamoru Heritage Series, 24 October 2012, Latte of Freedom Hall...
This speech was presented at Guampedia’s Chamorro Heritage Series, 7 November 2012, Latte of Freedom...
This speech was presented at Guampedia’s Chamorro Heritage Series, 27 November 2012, Latte of Freedom...
This speech was presented at Guampedia’s Chamorro Heritage Series, 5 December 2012, Latte of Freedom...
First visited Guam in 1565. Miguel López de Legazpi (1502-1572) was a colonial official in New Spain,...
Fena, sometimes spelled Fenna, (and in some older European accounts as Feña or Fiña) is an area located...
Ancient village on Guam's northwestern coast. Haputo is located on military-owned land on the northwestern...
One of the most well-known scenic points of Guam is the Cetti Bay Overlook on the southwest side of the...
Inland heritage site. The area known as Manenggon Hills is more than 1,300 acres that encompasses the...
Heritage Site Talofofo steeped in history. The municipality of Talo'fo'fo is located in south-central...
Navy controlled entry and departure from Guam. August 21, 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of an unsung...
Guampedia Author. Joshua F. Tenorio is Lieutenant Governor of Guam. He has previously Vice President...
Richard Barrett Lowe (1902-1972) was the third civilian governor of Guam. He was appointed by President...
Guampedia author and former intern. Jesi Lujan Bennett is a Master’s candidate in the Center for Pacific...
Conquest of the Marianas. A well-born Spaniard, José de Quiroga y Losada, was a major figure in the subjugation...
Ford Quint Elvidge (1892-1980) was the second appointed civilian governor of Guam. He was appointed by...
Carlton Skinner (1913-2004) was the governor of Guam at a historical crossroad. It was a time when civilian...
Eddie Baza Calvo (1961 -- ), a Republican, was the 13th civilian Governor of Guam. He served for two...
William Partlow “Bill” Daniel (1915-2006) was the fifth appointed civilian governor of Guam serving from...
Carl Tommy Cruz Gutierrez (1941 -- ) was the 11th civilian governor of Guam, serving two consecutive...
Felix Perez Camacho, (1957 -- ), a Republican, was the 12th civilian governor of Guam, serving for two...
Governor Manuel Flores “Carson” Leon Guerrero (1914 - 1985) was Guam’s second Chamorro governor, the...
Joseph Franklin Ada (1943 -- ) served as the Governor of Guam from 1987 through 1994. Frank Blas Jr....
Scientific name: Intsia bijuga. Ifit is the official territorial tree of Guam and is culturally important...
On 15 August 1568 the Spanish galleon San Pablo, anchored off the southwest coast of Guam, was hit by...
Mother of the Chamorro people. Fo'na is the female protagonist of the Chamorro/CHamoru creation myth....
CHamoru educator in Micronesia. Few CHamorus of Guam’s Spanish Era (1668-1898) are mentioned by name...
Educator and advocate. Rosa Teresita Perez Salas (1926-1998) was an educator and vocal advocate for the...
Maria Anderson Roberto, born in 1880, was a CHamoru woman who had been employed as a chaperone for the...
Cecilia Cruz Bamba (1934 - 1986) was a community organizer, senator, businesswoman and mother of 10 whose...
Mariana Leon Guerrero Lujan (1914 - 2006) was one of a cadre of dedicated educators who began teaching...
Rosa Roberto Carter (1929-2010) was a highly accomplished educator whose professional career spanned...
Beatrice Peredo Flores Emsley (1929-1995) is best remembered as a survivor of the Japanese Occupation...
Traditional weaver. Although weaving was once a practice in which nearly all CHamorus participated, a...
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