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Ben “Sinahi” del Rosario

Ben “Sinahi” San Nicolas del Rosario is a Chamorro cultural artist who specializes in creating traditional Chamorro ornamental pieces and jewelry.

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Leonard Iriarte

Leonard Iriarte (Familian Yåyi) is an educator (fafa’nå’gue) and an oral historian for the I Fanlalai’an Oral History Project.

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Art, Art, Architecture, Body Adornment, Music and Food, Artists, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Guam Era, Creative Expressions, Historic Eras of Guam, People, People and Places, Photography

Herman A. Crisostomo is a photographer and filmmaker known for his stylish television commercials and photographs of beautiful women. Born in Sinajana to Herman Aguon Crisostomo and Marie Rosario Crisostomo, he is one of nine children. Crisostomo owns Pacific Pictures Film & Video, and Pictures, Inc.

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Clotilde “Ding” Castro Gould

Clotilde “Ding” Castro Gould (1930-2002) was a beloved storyteller, educator and advocate for Chamorro language and culture. Through her sense of humor and gift for weaving stories and songs together about Chamorros and life on Guam, Gould helped create and shape Chamorro language resources and programs on Guam, as well as advanced cultural awareness of the Marianas in the larger Pacific region.

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Robert Taitano

Robert Phillip Taitano (1938 – 2022) was an established woodcarver who specializes in crafting art works, furniture and other decorative pieces from local hardwood. A recognized Master Carver by the Guam Council on the Arts and Humanities Agency (CAHA), Taitano produced pieces for numerous dignitaries, including Guam governors, senators of the Guam Legislature, United States Congressional delegates, island judges, and even the former US President William “Bill” Clinton.

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Catholic, Civic Society, Contemporary Guam Era, Guam's Villages, Historic Eras of Guam, People and Places, Religion, Spanish Era, Villages, Heritage Sites and Island Life

Guam Fiesta Calendar

View list of the fiestas by month or download the Catholic Church’s fiesta calendar.

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Joseph “JD Crutch” Duenas

Talo’fo’fo boy. The musician “JD Crutch” was a man who was both artist and outlaw, in a manner of speaking. In order to break new ground, an artist has to defy existing laws that govern what is acceptable for the time.

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Guamanian Era, Historic Eras of Guam, Modern Guam Rises, People, People and Places, Transportation, Technology and Communications

Joseph Charles Murphy

Joseph C. Murphy (1927-2009) was a newspaper columnist and editor best known for “Pipe Dreams,” a column he wrote for more than 50 years.

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Chamorro Culture, Historic Eras of Guam, Matrilineal Systems, Our Heritage, People, People and Places, Roles of Family Members, Spanish Era, Spanish-CHamoru Wars, Wars and Factors of Peace

Yula

Maga’låhi Yula (also spelled Hula or Yura) was a chief from the village of Apotguan in Hagåtña, who is best known for sparking a Chamorro/CHamoru uprising in the summer of 1684.

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Chamorro Culture, Historic Eras of Guam, Matrilineal Systems, Our Heritage, People, People and Places, Roles of Family Members, Spanish Era, Spanish-CHamoru Wars, Wars and Factors of Peace

Tolahi

Maga’låhi Tolahi (also spelled Tetlaje or Torahi) was a chief from Tachuc (immediately south of Malesso), who fearlessly led the southern villages in resistance to Spanish rule. Tolahi believed that Chamorros/CHamorus were entitled to live freely as they had for millennia before the Spanish arrived.

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