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Thank you for the comment. Michael Lujan Bevacqu also had a nice piece on this word in the Guam PDN: www.guampdn.com/opinion/bevacqua-there-are-certain-limits-to-inafamaolek/article_7964b4e4-bf07-57da-84e2-deb92e115391.html
I really wished that I had spent more time with my late NaNa +Maria (Coco) Roligat in Oleai to learn more about my culture 😢 Thank you, NaNa Emy, for this important information! And I always look forward to your show, Catherine! ❤
Research Team Notes and Additional Acknowledgements: Vietnam War Veteran and Archivist Robert Thompson (Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Reference Branch at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland), and his staff provided the 16mm film reels in 2019 that made this video possible. The video was presented as part of an exhibition with photographs on 8" x 10" Hahnemühle rag fine art paper prints with single mattings and frames. Northern Marianas Humanities Council Program Officer Farah Younis helped with securing funding, implementation, and coordination. Japanese, Okinawan, Korean, indigenous Chamorro, Carolinian, and other peoples lived on the islands in 1944. There were many East Asians and Micronesians on Saipan, while the population of Tinian was mostly East Asian. Suicides and murder-suicides occured on both Saipan and Tinian, though the majority of civilians chose to surrender or were captured. A number of Japanese military prisoners and Korean laborers were taken in as well. 0:55 Statue of Haruji Matsue, founder of the South Seas Development Company, in Sugar King Park, Garapan 1:01 Flame trees (Delonix regia) 1:37 Japanese Hospital and current site of the NMI Museum of History and Culture in Garapan 16:01 House of Taga Latte Stones, San Jose
Wow i didn't know about Festivals of Pacific Arts, It's impressive and intriguing to imagine 28 countries along with thier United Cultures exhibit their own ways, I hope Philippines have thier delegation, As i am a Filipino bu the way. Brown skinned and have complexities like the Polynesians.
Uncle Don, I love the fact that we would wave and greet each other as you pass by my house. Thank you for everything you've done for all of us around you. You're awesome. Always have been.
I have been to Saipan 2 times to visit my family! I live in Colorado. The last time I went to Saipan, I had the opportunity to visit Tinian. Its a beautiful island and full of amazing History! This book is something that I would love to have. How can I get one to me in Colorado or should I have family purchase it for me in Saipan? Then mail it to me. Plus, I was looking at pictures before the interview and I saw my 2 beautiful granddaughters who run Booniebabbies in Saipan!
Yes Darcy, your dad is an incredible person. When I first met him in 2008 on a military tour, and until 2015, He was my roomie on Saipan and Guam. We would exchange Pictures, and he would ask where did you find these?, as he had never seen them before. Every year I would bring more to his delight. I have all his books except the school textbooks, First one was the Liberation of Guam. His new book is in the mail now. A real friend who, until I started reading his last two books, he put me in the credits and used one of my pictures. A great author and person, a privilege to know him.
That's my dad, and I could not be more proud! As he shows in this interview, he does not write these books for any personal gain (not for money or personal recognition), but for the people of the Marianas, who he deeply loves, and the people who served in our armed forces, especially in the battles on our islands, and their families. There is a moment in this interview as he is telling one story where we can see him clearly get emotional, choke up, and his voice cracks. Ms. Perry notices and comments, "This is more than history for you." His response was simple, yet powerful. He points to a picture on the back cover of his book of Seabees on a B29 on Tinian and says, "Because their story was never told, and now it's told." I had not realized it has been 40 years since he published his first book! As a kid on Guam, I remember tagging along with my parents to countless homes while my dad listened to people's personal stories of their experiences during the war on Guam. Most spoke only in Chamorro, so my mom, Carmen, would translate for my dad. Those interviews turned into his first books, the trilogy, The Pictorial History of Guam (Liberation, Americanization, and Sacrifice - published in that order). 40 years later, he is still going! And writing was never his full time profession - he did all this on the side! I think I might have to write and publish HIS story! Because That would make a good book! -Darcy (his baby)
Clan can’t be same as ailang. There is no low or high in ailang when it comes to Carolinian. It is just history of where or how you travel to or where you come from. I can be rebwal and end up in satwal and they don’t have that, the chief can claim me and protect me under his clan. SORRY they are mixing everything up.
Thank you Ms. Catherine and Mr. Carlos! I hope we can learn more about all the administrations and their transitions. Interesting about that one chamorro wedding ❤
I'm an American living in Asia over 22 years now. I still see this kind of poverty and desperaton eveyday, today, in 2024. When you go to far parts of the world and see how little people have, then you see and know the waste in rich countries, the greed, and selfishness, and the things people take for granted. People approach me everyday on the roads with their hands out begging for 25 cents to buy a meal. Come to these places and it changes you forever.
@@islandNative11 I have seen him talk down on Chamorros losing their language. The same can be said for Carolinians but to highlight Chamorros and not your own race is crazy. It’s true for both Chamolinians. T8 till I die. I hang out at the beach and for culture he’s great but he’s one sided.
Yes he has been vocal at times for his disdain towards the Chamorros and their attitudes of being first and the original indigenous people of the Marianas which I can agree. We can’t overlook his contributions in Carolinian Affairs but I do get what you are saying. One of his downfalls.
I have books the Joeten Kiyu Library may not have written by my Uncle in Chamorro and English in one. He spoke of dates far back as 1900’s. “Ma Fañago I Chamorro” by David F. Borja
My father, rest his soul, could speak Refaluwasch as well as his most of his siblings who have since passed on. Missed opportunity to learn. Not sure if my mother can/could, as she has lived in the US Mainland for over 30 years and her late husband forbid her to speak Chamorro to my siblings. As I did not grow up with them (I was adopted by a family from Guam), my step parents barely ever spoke Chamorro to me. I learn now through videos/books/podcasts like these. Even though this is an old video, thank you. I'm glad I found it.
@@BliepzeJornal The people at 1:42 and 7:03 may be Chamorro. Chamorros were sometimes mixed with fleeing groups of peoples from Asia. Other Chamorros were hiding or moving in different parts of Saipan or were interned in the civilian stockades and later Camp Susupe in the southwest. Peoples from Asia did outnumber those from Micronesia on Saipan in 1944. Also, there were less than one hundred Chamorros and Carolinians on Tinian then but many Okinawans and Koreans in addition to the Japanese.
My late father a Pharmacist Mate landed with the 2ndMarDiv on Red Beach. He survived a bonzi charge. Was commissioned a W-1 and became legal and sanitation officer at Camp Susupe, departing in February 1946. He told of the melting pot of peoples from all about the Pacific rim and how we all want the same thing. This widened his view of other peoples and races, as he had grown up in North Carolina. Thank you. Narragansett Bay
My late father was a Navy Pharmacist Mate and took part in the invasion of your home island with the 2MarDiv. Surviving the first banzi charge. He served with the 202 (?) Navy Field Hospital. Promoted to W-1 (MSC) he became legal and sanitation officer for Camp Susupe. Returning home in 1946. He continued serving in the Navy rounding out a 30 yr. career in 1960. He spoke highly of the peaceful islanders, and of the POW's acceptance of their circumstances. Thank you. Narragansett Bay
It's hard to watch even though it happened decades ago just imagining these people barely had nothing other than a small piece of land, animals, and their own life and still some of them smiled and I know the marines dealing with these people at that moment knew what was going on you can see their face expressions of a mix of sadness and fatigue and still giving these people a smile and a help
I lived in the Mariana Islands for many years. I’ve been on Rota, Tinian, and Saipan and am well familiar with all three islands. My avatar is Wedding Cake Mountain on Rota. I have crawled through the old Japanese tunnels. I have picked pieces of porcelain and sake bottles from the beach. I have found bullets and shrapnel fragments in the sand. The signs of war are all around the islands. As I watched the film, I could feel the sun and smell the forest. I wonder if any of the old people I have met were the babies in the film. Dang! I miss the islands. Si yu’os ma’ase’.
I want to go there SO bad! I want to learn, hike, swim, kayak, pay respects - and it does indeed feel like a place to reflect and release. Blessings to you.
