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Chamorro Week Celebration at Inarajan

In order to preserve, celebrate, and educate about Chamorro culture and customs within an educational space, Inarajan Junior High dedicates a week to learning and practicing Chamorro culture. During this event students are expected to celebrate…

Recipes of Some Chamorro Foods

A collection of Chamorro recipes.

The dishes featured are:
Lemmai chips (bread fruit chips)
Gollai Appan Chotda (Bananas n' coconut)
Apigige
Kalamai
Gollai Hagon Suni (Taro top n' coconut milk)
Tamales Suni
Gollai Appan Lemmai (bread fruit 'n…

The Fiesta--How It Started

In an interview with Baldobino Taitague and Jose Torres, the duo describe the origins of village fiestas and the expectations for both the families and village to perform during the festivities.

Chamorro Superstitions

This section of the magazine focuses mainly on the taotaomona spirits.
It describes who the taotaomona are, what do they do, where can you find them, and who is able to communicate with them.

This section reflects on the importance of respecting…

Mr. Barcinas Weaves a Basket

Enigo Barcinas, of Merizo, gave two students a firsthand demonstration on how to weave a basket out of coconut leaves. A detailed instructional article, with pictures provided as a guide.

Segment also featured in Antigo 1975.

Mr. Concepcion Demonstrates Home Utensils

Jeff Chargualaf and Benny Crisostomo interview Merizo resident, Tomas Concepcion, about his knowledge or traditional home utensils and how he makes them.

The list of utensils Mr. Concepcion creates as, as follows:

Cheop (basket)
Metati Yan Mano…

COVER

A traditional hut sits on top of eight latte stones in front of a building. This building can be assumed to be a school. There is a young banana tree and lusong (motar) to the right of the hut. The majority of the image if in black and white, with…

Special Chamorro Day

Three special projects were created by Inarajan Junior High students in celebration of their Chamorro Day event. The students were led by their instructor, Mr. Hovland, to create the Guam flag, the map of Guam, and even construct a summer hut. These…

Chamorro Day

A summary about the Chamorro Day event, which is an annual cultural activity day celebrated by Inarajan Junior high.

Collage of Photos

A collection of photos decorating the dedication and acknowledgement page. It is assumed that the people mentioned are the people in the photos, though the images do not indicate who or what exactly is photographed.