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Lesson Plan: Re-imagining History 1
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Lesson Plan: Our Guam Art Museum 3
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Lesson Plan: Our Guam Art Museum 1
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Lesson Plan: Our Chants
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Lesson Plan: Oral History 3
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Lesson Plan: CHamoru Sentence Scramble
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Lesson Plan: Journal 3
8 June 1945 Teacher Gus Duenas instructing a class in Social Science...
Lesson Plan: Learning Research Methods 2
The W.A.V.E. Club Student Summit at the Micronesian...
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Lesson Plan: Historical Connections Board 4
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Lesson Plan: Historical Connections Board 3. Drawing Connections between Historical World Events and...
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Lesson Plan: Historical Connections Board 1. Drawing Connections between Historical World Events and...
Lesson Plan: Guam History Board Game 1
Ana F. Duenas teaching children in bomb-shattered building...
Lesson Plan: Cooking Roulette
Helping prepare for a party is one form of chenchule’....
Lesson Plan: Differing News Reports (long) 2
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Lesson Plan: Musical Chairs
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Musical Chairs with the CHamoru Alphabet
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Lesson Plan: Art Around Us 2
Guinahan Famagu’on yan Alahas (Children’s Wealth...
Lesson Plan: Journal (Optional)
8 June 1945 Teacher Gus Duenas instructing a class in Social...
Lesson Plan: Journal 6
8 June 1945 Teacher Gus Duenas instructing a class in Social Science...
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8 June 1945 Teacher Gus Duenas instructing a class in Social Science...
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8 June 1945 Teacher Gus Duenas instructing a class in Social Science...
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8 June 1945 Teacher Gus Duenas instructing a class in Social Science...
Lesson Plan: Oral History 7
Storyteller Toni “Malia” Ramirez, 2015. Ramirez retells...
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Storyteller Toni “Malia” Ramirez, 2015. Ramirez retells...
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Storyteller Toni “Malia” Ramirez, 2015. Ramirez retells...
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Storyteller Toni “Malia” Ramirez, 2015. Ramirez retells...
Lesson Plan: Oral History 1
Storyteller Toni “Malia” Ramirez, 2015. Ramirez retells...
Lesson Plan: Our Guam Art Museum 4
History of the Guam Museum exhibition, 2019. Guam Museum...
Lesson Plan: Our Guam Art Museum 2
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Lesson Plan: Guam History Board Game 3
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Lesson Plan: S-Curves and Snakes
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Lesson Plan: Guam History Board Game 4
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Lesson Plan: Guam History Board Game 2
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Lesson Plan: Embodying History – Who am I?
Group at Government House, 1964. Micronesian...
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In the social organization of Chamorro/CHamoru society, individuals from the lowest class were known...
Under Spanish colonial rule, the introduction of Spanish customs, social systems and land tenure disrupted...
Evolution of the term. Matå’pang is a Chamorro/CHamoru word currently used to describe a person who is...
Ancient religious philosophy. Animism is the belief that everything in nature – living and non-living...
Source of life. Ancient Chamorros/Chamorus believed that women held the power of life and controlled...
Of the different regional groups of the Pacific, the physical anthropology of the peoples of Micronesia...
Early accounts of traditional Chamorro/CHamoru society describe at least two distinct social castes—the...
CHamoru women have a legacy of leadership that helped keep the culture and history of their people alive....
The social ranking of individuals, whether by age, gender or social status, has always been important...
Fino' gualåfon was a style of language developed and used by young bachelors in ancient CHamoru society. ...
The Chamorro/CHamoru word mo’na points to the idea that the CHamoru cosmology, in particular during the...
Ancient Chamorro/CHamoru people formed a matrilineal society and so inheritance and descent was through...
Ancient Chamorros were a matrilineal society, where family connections were traced through the mother’s...
In ancient Chamorro/CHamoru society men were depicted as creators and as having superhuman strength....
The legend of Puntan Påtgon (Child's Point) is a folktale about a powerful man who becomes envious of...
Proverbs are popular sayings, phrases of wisdom, or simply a piece of advice. Proverbs express a people’s...
On the night before a wedding in ancient Guam, the two families met to present the chenchule' (ceremonial...
When a young man and woman were attracted to each other during ancient times on Guam, the man would let...
In ancient times in the Mariana Islands, three or four days before a wedding the relatives on both sides...
The snake first entered Guam, the CHamoru language and CHamoru consciousness hundreds of years before...
The hilitai or monitor lizard (Varanus tsukamotoi) was introduced to the island before European contact...
Modern-day Guam is a predominantly Catholic society. Some beliefs have passed through generations preserving...
The utak or itak (Phaethon lepturu) is a bird Chamorros/CHamorus believe plays a role as providing an...
Guampedia author. Chloe Batangan Babauta is a fourth-generation reporter at the Pacific Daily News. Babauta...
Guampedia Author. Chelsea Marlo San Nicolas is the daughter of John San Nicolas and Melissa Finney Bettis...
Competition for rank and status. As in any culture, Chamorros/CHamorus compete against themselves in...
Prior the Spanish colonization of Guam, Chamorro culture was fairly liberal about issues of romance,...
The Chamorro term ma'goddai can be described as a strong feeling one gets when they admire someone because...
The phrase Chamorro/CHamoru parents say to their children that best illustrates the core CHamoru value...
The word “låncho” comes from the word Spanish word “rancheria” and refers to Chamorro farms, ranches,...
Discussing the pre-colonial arts of Chamorros is a difficult task. Documents by the Spanish who first...
Guampedia reviewer. Ronald T. Laguana has served as the administrator of the Chamorro Studies and Special...
Codes of conduct. From what is written in historical texts about Guam and the Mariana Islands, Chamorro...
In CHamoru culture many values are exhibited in daily life. Geftao (generous, giving in the CHamoru language)...
Divorce. The earliest information known about the Ancient Chamorro/CHamoru style of divorce comes from...
God of the underworld. Chaife was the god of the underworld, according to one Guam legend.
Maga’låhi Yula (also spelled Hula or Yura) was a chief from the village of Apotguan in Hagåtña, who is...
Maga’låhi Tolahi (also spelled Tetlaje or Torahi) was a chief from Tachuc (immediately south of Malesso),...
Women today continue to maintain positions of authority in Chamorro/CHamoru society, both at home, in...
The story of the two lovers who tied their hair together and leapt to their death on Guam was first recorded...
Mens' role in societies have always been that of protector and provider. In the Mariana Islands, a change...
In Spanish colonial times criollo referred to a full-blooded Spaniard born in the Spanish colonies in...
Kottot (pronounced koe-toot) is a rectangular basket made from the leaves of the åkgak (awhk-gak) tree,...
ndios were defined as the native indigenous peoples in all the Spanish American and Asian possessions. ...
Insulares was the specific term given to criollos (full-blooded Spaniards born in the colonies) born...
During the Spanish colonial period (1668-1898), persons of mixed African and Spanish ancestry were known...
Che’lu is a Chamorro term for a sibling; brother or sister. Mañe'lu is the plural form of che’lu, referring...
Derived from the Spanish term "soltera" for an unmarried female and "soltero" for an unmarried male,...
Freycinet also noted that an examination of CHamoru words and phrases supports the idea that the islanders...
Guampedia Author. Art De Oro has a master’s degree in public administration and a bachelor’s degree in...
Rice was an important ceremonial food during ancient times in the Mariana Islands. At a wedding party,...
A precise understanding of Chamorro/CHamoru concepts or designations requires a fundamental understanding...
The Compadres was a musical band that formed in the early 1960s as the Continentals. The group, at certain...
Established in 1971, Harmon Loop Elementary School in Dededo was renamed and rededicated as Juan Mendiola...
There is little doubt that CHamorus today live very different lives than Chamorros/CHamorus did 400 years...
On March 10, 1976, Governor Ricardo J. Bordallo announced his plan to build an American monument that...
Frank E. Sanchez is Guam’s first internationally known grandmaster in the martial arts. He holds a 10th...
The vision of the CHamoru Roots Genealogy Project, Hale’ CHamoru, is to be the premiere portal of CHamoru...
Santa Marian Kamalen, also known as Our Lady of Camarin, is the patron saint of Guam. The 300-year-old...
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