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War Atrocities: Manenggon Concentration Camp
One of the worst atrocities that took place at the end of the Japanese occupation of Guam during World War II was the Manenggon concentration camp. In July 1944, as American forces prepared to invade Guam, Japanese forces ordered nearly the entire civilian population of Guam to move to Manenggon as well as other smaller concentration camps.
War Atrocities: Fena Massacre
The Fena Caves Massacre occurred on 23 July 1944, shortly after American troops invaded the island on 21 July, when Japanese soldiers killed more than 30 young men and women from Hågat and Sumai with grenades and bayonets in the caves near Fena Lake, raping many of the women before killing them. In some accounts, it is reported that 66 others barely survived the massacre.
War Atrocities: Tinta and Faha Massacres, Malesso
On July 15 and 16, 1944, with the American forces approaching Guam near the end of the Japanese occupation of the island in World War II, Japanese soldiers massacred nearly fifty Chamorro men and women from Malesso’ in two separate confrontations in the Tinta and Faha areas just outside the village of Malesso’.
Velma Jean Yamashita
Guampedia Author. Velma Jean Yamashita is a graduate of Academy of Our Lady of Guam, and holds a BA in art history from Barnard College, Columbia University and an MA in Asian/Pacific art history from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
Mangkalamya: Skilled Artisans
In ancient Chamorro/CHamoru society, each CHamoru was expected to possess knowledge and ability in a wide range of skilled, but unspecialized tasks, generally dictated by gender. For example, women were expected to be skilled in the weaving of many objects, and men were to be skilled at fabrication of basic tools. All CHamorus were expected to know many different fishing and farming techniques.
Carolinians on Guam
Peoples from the Caroline Islands have had a lengthy pre-contact history with the Mariana Islands. Research into indigenous Pacific voyaging overall shows indigenous movements throughout the Pacific, thus making centuries of Carolinian voyaging contact with the Mariana Islands – and CHamoru voyaging contact with the Caroline Islands a certainty.
Naval Executive Orders
The Naval Executive Orders of Guam are a series of mandates produced by the Naval government of Guam during the island’s US Naval Era (1898-1941) and Post World War II Era (1945-1950) before the signing of the Organic Act in 1950, which would grant the people of Guam limited self government.
Blacksmithing
Herreron CHamoru. Blacksmithing, in the form that it is most known today, has only existed on Guam for a few centuries. On the surface blacksmithing on Guam might appear to be something which was introduced by the Spanish.
Filipino Migration to Guam 1945 – 1975
With a long and storied history of Filipino-CHamoru interaction in Guam, it is surprising to note that since the end of the Second World War in 1944, the contemporary Filipino record in the western Pacific has been largely ignored.
First Pan American Flights
Pan Am Clippers was the name given to the Pan American fleet of airplanes that were used in the first commercial passenger and mail flights across the Pacific. During the early years, these were seaplanes that could land on the calm lagoons of the Pacific Islands.