NO REST FOR THE AWAKE - MINAGAHET CHAMORRO

For a person of any ethnicity undergoing an identity crisis, there are various stages that you must go through in your search for answers. Some of these stages you may move through quickly, others you may spent more time in, you may find your way to a new space and then decide you don't like it and then turn around and return to a previous point in your journey. For those who feel that they have been deprived of a cultural identity one stage that they must pass through, but which can be fairly dangerous, is the "uniku" stage, or unique stage. Their feelings of loss can come from many sources. They can be from the diaspora and feel like this barrier of oceans or continents stands between them and their identity. It can be an issue of dominant society blocking cultural expression and making them, their parents or their community feel like their cultural has to be neutralized or sterilized before it can be passed on. It can even be a railing and rallying against history

I found this on the Indigenist Intelligence Review . But its originally from the blog Anishinaabekwe . Gof bunita yan gof magahet este. Fihu gumongong yu' put i Chamoru siha, yan i hinasson-niha put i kutturan-niha. Gi fino' Ingles, gof "ma'i'ot" pat "narrow" i hinasson-niha. Hinasson-niha na i kutturan Chamoru, solu hafa uniku giya Hita, ya taigue gi todu i otro kuttura. Pat hinasson-niha, na i Chinamoru solu hafa estaba gaige guini antes di manhalom i Espanot. Dinagi este dos na hinasso. Ti magahet yan dinagi. Gi este dos na hinasso, i Chinamoru i perfekto Chamoru ha'. Lao taya' gi hilo' tano' perfekto, taya' taotao, taya' kuttura. Sina un aligao gi todu i lugat giya este na mundo, yan taya' sinedda'-mu siempre. Pues hafa i bali-na ayu na inaligao? Taitai este na betsu. Este dipotsi i korason i mannatibu na taotao. Estague i minagahet debi di ta akihom. ************************* Indigenous Is ... Indigen

As should be obvious from my current Blogger profile image, I am a cricket fan. I haven't been one long. Gi espiritu, ya-hu cricket desde hu egga’ Lagaan, noskuantos na sakkan tåtte na tiempo. Lao gi minagahet, kasi un sakkan ha’maloffan desde hu tutuhun ya-hu manegga’. I've been reading plenty of articles, scorecards and watching what few matches I can find on youtube or google video, and slowly I'm becoming more and more of a hardcore fan. One of the first sites I visit kada ogga'an yan kada puengge when I turn on my computer is Cricinfo.com , to find out what the results are for the latest ODI, Test or Twenty20 matches. Unfortunately, over the summer, there wasn't much activity save for the Test and ODI matches between India and England. Which were very exciting in their own right, but hardly enough for a new fan to satisfy their appetite. India is my favorite team right now, even if they aren't the best, they are still an amazing collection of powerful playe

I wrote several months ago about Chamorros in the United States as "ethnic achakma'" and the need for Chamorros to assert ourselves in the United States as just another ethnic group that makes exciting and delicious food! In this post, I used the dance group Kutturan Chamoru which operates out of Long Beach, California as a potential example of how Chamorros in the states can break out of these stereotypes and bland minority existences. On Guam right now there has been a proliferation of Pacific dance groups, many Chamorro oriented, but many others clearly Polynesian. In the Chamorro diaspora, there is a high level of participation in Polynesian style dance groups, both in Hawai'i and especially in Southern California. The existence of Kutturan Chamoru is important because it represents a moment where the "Pacific Islander" label which is dominated in the United States by a orientalist Polynesian imaginary, did not dictate what was to be possible, and inste