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As someone who no longer lives in Saipan but is always finding ways to connect to my Chamorro culture, I really appreciate this information. From a public health perspective, it could be useful for community based participatory research, program planning and evaluation in the CNMI (that is what I'm using this info for in my research!). In my opinion, I think there is so much potential to improve community health on the islands but it needs to start with research. Knowing how to communicate and understand the importance of culture of the diverse populations on the islands is crucial for further exploration which leads to improvements. Yes to establishing a framework that research and programs can be based upon! Would love to see future work on this, thank you Dr. Isa!

Wonderful presentation. I will always treasure the Mass I attended at the Santa Lourdes grotto with Manny. ❤

Why don’t you invite Maria Ressa from Philippines . A world renowned journalist

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Actual footage with NO voice over explaining who, what, where, when and why. Crazy music if it can be cslled such.

Just ordered the book from eBay. My uncle Greg was a Seabee on Tinian. He helped build and maintain the runways. A P-38 pilot asked Greg to drop a load of crushed coral on his revetment, and said he'd take Greg up in his P-38. "On one condition," said the pilot. "If you throw up, you're gonna have to clean it up." Greg assured him that wouldn't be necessary, and they went up. The pilot went through his rolls and aerobatics, and sure enough, Greg tossed his cookies. "I told you!" laughed the pilot. "When we land, you best get to cleaning the cockpit!" Greg was well into his eighties when he told me this story. Then he pulled his keys out of his pocket and showed me his Navy dog tag attached to the ring. He was very proud of his service. When he passed, the dog tag went to his son, Greg Jr.

• Latte stones as house posts a theory • Latte stones as a landmark as oppose to a house post • Latti’ stones / carved stones using coral limestones and basalt • Rubbing on stones like coral limestones can latti’ (scrape) your skin • majority of the latte stones were carved out of limestones • Gani islands latte stones are primarily basalt. Basalt are smooth to the touch. • Mop up units for WWII Japanese stragglers in Marpi got their shoes damaged walking on limestones. • Most visible places for latte stones: - Obyan Beach, Saipan - DFS Garapan, Saipan • DFS latte stones: remains during construction sites found so an (authentic) latte stone was brought to DFW site for that matter. • Courthouse: human remains found • Former Hafa Adai Hotel: remains • etc • Coral Ocean Point (COP): quarry of limestone latte stones done vertically • Taga Beach Tini’an: drones aerial view of imprints of pillars and capstones • Agingan Point as well • Practice respect to sacred places as stewards to our ancestors to the environment (island and ocean). • COP destroyed lots of artifacts and stone structures • Kagman, Saipan: latte stones • Final Thoughts: Our ancestors were engineers. They were stewards of culture, tradition and physical environment. • Let’s pass the legacy to our children. To always have respect for, be mindful of, and work with our maritime environment because it will continue to produce with us BUT we have to take care of it! ANOTHER SHOW! Yes! • High profile figure of a female buried with spondylus shells. 🙏🏼 Thank you for sharing this, Migget. Biba Genevieve Cabrera! #revivemarianas #pueshafa

Tina!!!!

That is my papa

Lopez Lisa Brown Daniel Lewis Robert

17:30 tina has clearly been working out triceps regularly

Ai adai, the music or the horn is great, but the breathing is annoying and ruins the film. It's like the "Breather" on the phone!

Lopez Betty Brown Michael Wilson Amy

Inafa'maolek means reconciliation. Fa'maolek is a verb that means to fix (something that was broken). Inafa'maolek is the noun version of Fa'maolek.

I really wished that I had spent more time with my late NaNa +Maria (Coco) Roligat in Oleai to learn more about my culture 😢 Thank you, NaNa Emy, for this important information! And I always look forward to your show, Catherine! ❤

All Love for Auntie Emi!!

Research Team Notes and Additional Acknowledgements: Vietnam War Veteran and Archivist Robert Thompson (Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Reference Branch at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland), and his staff provided the 16mm film reels in 2019 that made this video possible. The video was presented as part of an exhibition with photographs on 8" x 10" Hahnemühle rag fine art paper prints with single mattings and frames. Northern Marianas Humanities Council Program Officer Farah Younis helped with securing funding, implementation, and coordination. Japanese, Okinawan, Korean, indigenous Chamorro, Carolinian, and other peoples lived on the islands in 1944. There were many East Asians and Micronesians on Saipan, while the population of Tinian was mostly East Asian. Suicides and murder-suicides occured on both Saipan and Tinian, though the majority of civilians chose to surrender or were captured. A number of Japanese military prisoners and Korean laborers were taken in as well. 0:55 Statue of Haruji Matsue, founder of the South Seas Development Company, in Sugar King Park, Garapan 1:01 Flame trees (Delonix regia) 1:37 Japanese Hospital and current site of the NMI Museum of History and Culture in Garapan 16:01 House of Taga Latte Stones, San Jose

Si Yu’os Ma’ase Sinot Borja and Catherine Perry

You should interview your Mom or anti... or both.

Nice interview.

Prominent family extension from Guam. One of the Sablans was the first Chamorro Doctor.

What an informative and well-paced interview. Guampedia, what a resource.

Nice to see you again!

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where can i buy the book?

Wow i didn't know about Festivals of Pacific Arts, It's impressive and intriguing to imagine 28 countries along with thier United Cultures exhibit their own ways, I hope Philippines have thier delegation, As i am a Filipino bu the way. Brown skinned and have complexities like the Polynesians.

Uncle Don, I love the fact that we would wave and greet each other as you pass by my house. Thank you for everything you've done for all of us around you. You're awesome. Always have been.

I have been to Saipan 2 times to visit my family! I live in Colorado. The last time I went to Saipan, I had the opportunity to visit Tinian. Its a beautiful island and full of amazing History! This book is something that I would love to have. How can I get one to me in Colorado or should I have family purchase it for me in Saipan? Then mail it to me. Plus, I was looking at pictures before the interview and I saw my 2 beautiful granddaughters who run Booniebabbies in Saipan!

Yes Darcy, your dad is an incredible person. When I first met him in 2008 on a military tour, and until 2015, He was my roomie on Saipan and Guam. We would exchange Pictures, and he would ask where did you find these?, as he had never seen them before. Every year I would bring more to his delight. I have all his books except the school textbooks, First one was the Liberation of Guam. His new book is in the mail now. A real friend who, until I started reading his last two books, he put me in the credits and used one of my pictures. A great author and person, a privilege to know him.

Don, I'm so glad that you are still writing and still on the "topside of the turf"! Steve Sullivan

That's my dad, and I could not be more proud! As he shows in this interview, he does not write these books for any personal gain (not for money or personal recognition), but for the people of the Marianas, who he deeply loves, and the people who served in our armed forces, especially in the battles on our islands, and their families. There is a moment in this interview as he is telling one story where we can see him clearly get emotional, choke up, and his voice cracks. Ms. Perry notices and comments, "This is more than history for you." His response was simple, yet powerful. He points to a picture on the back cover of his book of Seabees on a B29 on Tinian and says, "Because their story was never told, and now it's told." I had not realized it has been 40 years since he published his first book! As a kid on Guam, I remember tagging along with my parents to countless homes while my dad listened to people's personal stories of their experiences during the war on Guam. Most spoke only in Chamorro, so my mom, Carmen, would translate for my dad. Those interviews turned into his first books, the trilogy, The Pictorial History of Guam (Liberation, Americanization, and Sacrifice - published in that order). 40 years later, he is still going! And writing was never his full time profession - he did all this on the side! I think I might have to write and publish HIS story! Because That would make a good book! -Darcy (his baby)

Biba tan Rita!

Clan can’t be same as ailang. There is no low or high in ailang when it comes to Carolinian. It is just history of where or how you travel to or where you come from. I can be rebwal and end up in satwal and they don’t have that, the chief can claim me and protect me under his clan. SORRY they are mixing everything up.

Your DNA test results gave me goosebumps, WOW❤

Thank you Ms. Catherine and Mr. Carlos! I hope we can learn more about all the administrations and their transitions. Interesting about that one chamorro wedding ❤

If my memory serves Correct every single expedition tried had to be rescued by the US COAST GUARD.😊

I'm an American living in Asia over 22 years now. I still see this kind of poverty and desperaton eveyday, today, in 2024. When you go to far parts of the world and see how little people have, then you see and know the waste in rich countries, the greed, and selfishness, and the things people take for granted. People approach me everyday on the roads with their hands out begging for 25 cents to buy a meal. Come to these places and it changes you forever.

Thank you, Mr. Aguon for sharing with us your love of all things CHamorru. An inspiring interview.

Why would you guys promote Lino when he has shown his racism towards Chamorros?

I have books the Joeten Kiyu Library may not have written by my Uncle in Chamorro and English in one. He spoke of dates far back as 1900’s. “Ma Fañago I Chamorro” by David F. Borja

Thank you all for what you do for our people. 🙏🏾

So happy for you Ninu Donald! Also Aunty Catherine I hope your son Isaac is doing well!

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I admire this. Thank you for your humanitarianism.

My father, rest his soul, could speak Refaluwasch as well as his most of his siblings who have since passed on. Missed opportunity to learn. Not sure if my mother can/could, as she has lived in the US Mainland for over 30 years and her late husband forbid her to speak Chamorro to my siblings. As I did not grow up with them (I was adopted by a family from Guam), my step parents barely ever spoke Chamorro to me. I learn now through videos/books/podcasts like these. Even though this is an old video, thank you. I'm glad I found it.

They don't look Chamorro.

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My late father a Pharmacist Mate landed with the 2ndMarDiv on Red Beach. He survived a bonzi charge. Was commissioned a W-1 and became legal and sanitation officer at Camp Susupe, departing in February 1946. He told of the melting pot of peoples from all about the Pacific rim and how we all want the same thing. This widened his view of other peoples and races, as he had grown up in North Carolina. Thank you. Narragansett Bay

It's a shame that a traditionally seafaring people have no ferry system. Even amongst their own islands.🙁

My late father was a Navy Pharmacist Mate and took part in the invasion of your home island with the 2MarDiv. Surviving the first banzi charge. He served with the 202 (?) Navy Field Hospital. Promoted to W-1 (MSC) he became legal and sanitation officer for Camp Susupe. Returning home in 1946. He continued serving in the Navy rounding out a 30 yr. career in 1960. He spoke highly of the peaceful islanders, and of the POW's acceptance of their circumstances. Thank you. Narragansett Bay