The Twelve Days of Chamorro Christmas is lyrical songbook of the island-styled rendition of one of the most well-known Christmas tunes.Each day is illustrated in a modern motif with lyrics that can be sung by children and adults alike. Images associated with this lyrical book include the water buffalo (karabao), the fruitbat (fanihi), the rooster (gåyu), and a much more. Buy this title and share it with family and friends so you all will be ready to sing your seasonal songs to create memories that last. This is sure to be a favorite in classrooms and for plays across the islands.
Chamorro Christmas Hymns Song Book - Favorite Novena Songs of Guam and CNMI is a compilation of 14 of the most memorable novena songs traditionally sung across the islands of Guam and the CNMI during the holiday season.Song titles include: Iya Belen, Fanmåtto Manhengge, Dåndan i Panderetas, Sen Bonito, O Maria, Si Jose Yan Si Maria, Magof Noche-Buena, Ta Fanmagof Todos, Kantåyi Gui', Puengen Yu'os, Ta Falågue Sahyao, Na Guinaiyayon, Nihi Pastores, O Patgon Belen, and Maila' Maila' Emmanuel.
This book preserves a legacy of CHamoru culture and cuisine of the Mariånas islands of Guam, Rota, Tinian, and Saipan from the perspectives of CHamoru authors Gerard and Mary Aflague. The Aflagues share various aspects of the CHamoru culture and over 100 recipes that reflect the islands' CHamoru cuisine. This book is beautifully designed in the Aflague's design style and is vivid in its photography of the islands and the many dishes that they have prepared.
The Chamorro-English Dictionary provides an alphabetical listing of as many Chamorro words as could be collected, spelled according to the principles adopted by the Marianas Orthography Committee in February 1971. Each word is given a fairly comprehensive definition in English, and, in many cases, sample sentences have been included to illustrate usages in context. Cross-references are provided among Chamorro words that are semantically related. An English-Chamorro finder list, based on selected words in the English definitions, is also provided.
The Reed of God is an inspirational classic written by a British Roman Catholic ecclesiastical artist, Caryll Houselander. This book contains a beautiful meditation on Mary, Mother of God and so much more. Reading this book will bring you closer to Our Blessed Mother, and hence, to Christ Himself. Filled with lyrical prose and touching analogies, the author shows how Mary was the "Reed of God" and that we are all vessels waiting to do God's work, and carrying Christ within us.
In 1941 the Japanese military attacked the US naval base Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian island of O‘ahu. Although much has been debated about this event and the wider American and Japanese involvement in the war, few scholars have explored the Pacific War’s impact on Pacific Islanders. Cultures of Commemoration fills this crucial gap in the historiography by advancing scholarly understanding of Pacific Islander relations with and knowledge of American and Japanese colonialisms in the twentieth century. Drawing from an extensive archival base of government, military, and popular records, Chamorro scholar Keith L Camacho traces the formation of divergent colonial and indigenous histories in the Mariana Islands, an archipelago located in the western Pacific and home to the Chamorro people. He shows that US colonial governance of Guam, the southernmost island, and that of Japan in the Northern Mariana Islands created competing colonial histories that would later inform how Americans, Chamorros, and Japanese experienced and remembered the war and its aftermath. Central to this discussion is the American and Japanese administrative development of "loyalty" and "liberation" as concepts of social control, collective identity, and national belonging. Just how various Chamorros from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands negotiated their multiple identities and subjectivities is explored with respect to the processes of history and memory-making among this "Americanized" and "Japanized" Pacific Islander population. In addition, Camacho emphasizes the rise of war commemorations as sites for the study of American national historic landmarks, Chamorro Liberation Day festivities, and Japanese bone-collecting missions and peace pilgrimages. Ultimately, Cultures of Commemoration demonstrates that the past is made meaningful and at times violent by competing cultures of American, Chamorro, and Japanese commemorative practices.
CHamoru Legends retells twelve CHamoru legends and features personal reflections from author Teresita Lourdes Perez, unique illustrations of each legend by Guam artists, and versions of the legends in the CHamoru language by Maria Ana Tenorio Rivera. The book includes CHamoru classics like the story of the siblings who created the universe; the two lovers who were pushed to the edge of a cliff because their union was forbidden; and the tale of the son who leapt an island away to escape his jealous father. CHamoru Legends is the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal recipient for Best Regional Fiction for Australia/New Zealand/Pacific Rim. It is a reversible book featuring the legends in English on one side and in CHamoru on the other. Through multiple layers of interpretation, the book weaves together strips of wisdom and cultural lessons like the leaves used to shape the CHamoru guåfak, or mat, upon which the earliest CHamoru storytellers sat sharing their versions of these timeless tales.
