Chamorro Press Releases
I felt like I've written a hundred press releases this year,
most of them for the Independence for GuÄhan Task Force, but plenty of others
for the Chamorro Studies Program at UOG. I've been meaning to post them here just
to easily archive them, especially for when I apply for promotion to UOG in the
coming year. It is intriguing, because what made me think of this tonight, was
a column written today by Paul Zerzan in the Guam Daily Post. It discusses how
the Chamorro language is a dead language. It isn't very well-written and its
argument is incredibly poor on almost all possible levels. Part of it hinges on
him describing an anecdote whereby a Chamorro cultural event planned in 1993
was attended by only himself, therefore clearly proving the language being
dead. What struck me as bewildering about this particular portion of his
argument, was that on a regular basis I attend and organize (ko'lo'lo'ña gi
UOG) Chamorro events that hundreds of people attend. Just…