For many CHamoru women, being dudus is a source of strength — a way of asserting our confidence and style on our own terms. An insistence on being dudus is a refusal to disappear or make ourselves small. guampdn.com/lifestyle/gene…
Demanding a seat at the table isn't radical transformation or decolonization/decoloniality. It's the desire to be recognized by those in power. It's the Iiberal notion of individual success, which will always render structural change unnecessary, unrealistic, and undesirable.
My Dad is one of the greatest at making home-grown Chamorro food, over an open fire too.
If my standards for it are high, its because I've seen how much you can do with so little.
The flavor the tangantangan smoke adds makes a MAJOR difference in the way any Chamorro dish turns out. Oh you like bistek? It’s waaaaaaay better cooked like this. Red rice? On a wood stove? Killer. If you know you know.
Today is Covenant Day. The Commonwealth Covenant is the document that makes the CNMI the CNMI. It’s the political status agreement between America and the Indigenous Peoples of Luta, Tinian, Saipan and the Northern Islands that allows us some self-governance under the US flag.
As children we are meant to go further than our parents. But the risk is always that we judge them by what we know, forgetting that any advantage we think we have is an outgrowth from the foundation they have set /
Every time I see things like this it trips me out. The Spanish killed our ancestors and forced their conversion SPECIFICALLY because we kept the relics of our ancestors.
On May 20, 1686, English explorer William Dampier visited Guam. Impressed with the canoes of the CHamorus he wrote, "The Natives are very ingenious beyond any People, in making Boats, or Proes, as they are called... I do believe, they sail the best of any Boats in the World."