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Spanish Heritage in Micronesia is a collection of presentation papers and slideshows from the conference...
After nearly 8 decades, a resolution. The war remains a sensitive issue for the Chamorros, in no small...
Edited by Laura Torres Souder and Robert A. Underwood. Published by the Chamorro Studies Association...
Four (4) e-publications of the Organic Act of Guam provided by the Micronesian Area Research Center...
Guam's Fish and Wildlife Fact Sheets are in their fourth printing since the original series came out...
Located in Oka, Tamuning, Guam Memorial Hospital is Guam's only public hospital, with a licensed bed...
Guampedia Author. Peter E. Patacsil was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai'i. He received a Bachelor...
The early years. A method of barter was in common use by native CHamorus long before the Spaniards arrived...
Eastern coastal village. Located on the eastern coast of the island of Guam, Pago is one of the oldest...
Meat, chicken and fish marinated and grilled. The popular ritual of modern-day CHamoru barbecuing (which...
This popular dessert item is a dark-colored baked cake that contains chocolate as the main flavoring...
A spicy salad that is made with cucumbers, pickled radish (diago), kimchee base and vinegar.
A Filipino noodle dish with meat and vegetables.
A variation of the more well-known Mexican tamale, this CHamoru version is characterized by its distinctive...
The steamboat is a round of beef that is roasted whole and is usually carved on a serving line.
A mixture of various fresh vegetables, dressed with a sauce flavored with herbs or seasonings.
Potu (also spelled poto) are white rice cakes, distinctly flavored with a local coconut toddy or fermented...
Like fish, crab is a staple in the CHamoru diet. Land crabs, pång'lao in CHamoru, continues to be one...
Meat and vegetables in an eggroll wrap.
A hearty side dish that consists of potatoes, eggs, vegetables, and mayonnaise.
Fresh seafood that is sliced and eaten with a soy sauce and spicy Japanese horseradish (wasabi) dipping...
An appetizer that consists of shrimp and vegetables; it is deep fried and very similar to a corn fri...
A dessert made of vanilla custard sprinkled with cinnamon with a sponge cake base.
A whole pig slowly spit-roasted over a fire. Basting yields crispy skin and moist meat.
Chopped chicken, meat, or seafood prepared with lemon juice.
Pacific ocean fish, grilled over a barbecue pit.
Fritada, from the Spanish verb “fritar”, means fried dish. In Guam, fritada is more a blood stew than...
A method of boiling starchy foods such as tubers, plantains or breadfruit, in the cream produced by squeezing...
A sweet mixture of various fruits in a thick sweet cream.
A dish of poached or fried fish with vegetables in a vinegar sauce.
Taro leaves prepared in the cream produced by squeezing grated fresh, ripe coconut with water to make...
Eggplant prepared in the cream produced by squeezing grated fresh, ripe coconut soaked in water to make...
Short-grained rice prepared with water colored from soaking achote (annatto) seeds, which gives it its...
Dinner rolls are the most common type of bread found on fiesta tables.
Fina’denne’ (commonly misspelled finadene or fina’dene) is a spicy sauce used as a condiment.
A sweet, syrupy drink made with young coconut.
Cured and dried strips of beef. Drying foods is a centuries-old method of preserving food practiced throughout...
Early northeastern coastal village. One of only four recorded latte sites on the northeastern coast of...
Talo'fo'fo boy. The musician “JD Crutch” was a man who was both artist and outlaw, in a manner of speaking....
Titiyas, derived from the Spanish word “tortilla,” is a flatbread made from the flour of corn, wheat...
As the US plans one of its largest realignments of military assets in decades, the people of Guam struggle...
Collection provided by the Department of Agriculture's Forestry and Soil Resources Division and the Division...
Collection from the Micronesian Area Research Center's photo archive. This gallery is not the complete...
Collection provided Dr. Cunningham to accompany relevant entries.
Collection provided by Dr. Flores to accompany relevant entries.
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Collection from her book Colonial Dis-Ease: US Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros of Guam, 1898-...
![Maxwell [Sumai] School, Interior. Photo courtesy of James Oelke-Farley from the National Archives.](https://www.guampedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Sumai-School-1920s_1100-768x438.webp)
Sumai/Sumay’s history dates before the Spanish colonial period, although not much is known about its...
Gallery of Contemporary Era Guam (1970-Present) images featured in Guampedia.
A collection of images featured in Guampedia.com from the Guamanian Era (1950-1970).
The Post War or Post World War II Era (1944-1950) Gallery is a collection of images utilized in Guampedia...
View images of Guam's World War II/Japanese Era featured in Guampedia.com.
The Naval Era (1898-1941) Gallery is a collection of images in Guampedia for related entries.
A collection of images representing the Spanish Era (1668 - 1898) of Guam and the Mariana Islands.
Illustrations and images representing Ancient Chamorros/CHamorus.
A legal analysis regarding the CHamoru and Hawai'ian right to self-determination was written for the...
Toward the beginning of the 19th century King Fernando VII (1813-1833) was the regent in Spain when Europe...
Joseph C. Murphy (1927-2009) was a newspaper columnist and editor best known for “Pipe Dreams,” a column...
Guampedia Author. Alexander M. Kerr is an assistant professor of Marine Biology at the University of...
Three of Dr. Robert A. Underwood’s lectures for the Guam Humanities Council’s (now Humanities Guåhan)...
Dr. Underwood speech to US House of Representatives, June 18, 1994.
A statement at the Centennial Commemoration, Piti, Guam, June 21, 1998. By Dr. Robert A. Underwood
Presented to the United Nation's Fourth Committee on Decolonization by Dr. Robert A. Underwood, at the...
Dr. Robert Underwood, Congressman at the time, keynote address at the Centennial Conference in Tumhom,...
Guam Recorder vol. 3, no. 3, second series, 1973.
Guam Recorder vol. 3, no. 1, second series, 1973.
Guam Recorder vol. 2, no. 4, second series, 1972.
Guam Recorder vol. 2, no. 2 & 3, second series, 1972.
This report provides a complete list of words found in Y Santa Biblia, a partial translation into the...
Guam Recorder vol. 2, no. 1, second series, 1972.
Lesson Plan: Long-term Biochemical Experimentation
Chicken egg whose eggshell...
Lesson Plan: Where the Waste Goes Part 2
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The Dump-Investigating...
Lesson Plan: Where the Waste Goes Part 1
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Understanding Trash...
Lesson Plan: Cone Snail Chemistry
A Textile cone snail (Conus textile) in...
Lesson Plan: Journal 1
8 June 1945 Teacher Gus Duenas instructing a class in Social Science...
Lesson Plan: Differing News Reports (long) 3
Scan of the newspaper Dateline from the Micronesian...
Lesson Plan: Differing News Reports (short)
Scan of the newspaper Dateline from the Micronesian...
Lesson Plan: Symbolic Tattoos 3
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Inked History: Interpreting...
Lesson Plan: Physics of a Slingstone
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Slingstones in flight
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Students will learn about the history of tattoos on nearby islands, and about the relative lack of tattoos...
Lesson Plan: CHamoru Vocabulary Bingo
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Lesson Plan: Re-imagining History 3
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Presenting our re-imagined...
Lesson Plan: Re-imagining History 2
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Creating our own...
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