Julian Aguon wore a dark blue suit and garland made of white coconut fronds, brown hibiscus tree bark, and brown cowry shells. Under the arched ceilings and chandeliers of the Peace Palace in The ...

On the day Livia Marati was due to give birth, Typhoon Mawar barreled toward Guam. Anyone more than 36 weeks pregnant was instructed by the governor’s office to make their way to the island’s only ...

Geraldine Datuin/SIGWARZ, Bones of My Ancestors, 2016; 36 in x 24 in., acrylic, spray paint and oil stick on panel. Courtesy Geraldine Datuin Before Geraldine Datuin painted flora, she remembers ...

Since the United States seized control of Guam during World War II, the US military has slowly turned the Pacific island into a military garrison, destroying cultural sites, food sources, and, ...

Apollonia Manglona, 84, of Meridianville, is like a beautiful tree with branches. The Guam native was born in Rota which is part of the Mariana Islands. She has nine children, 16 grandchildren, 19 ...

I knew very little of the Chomorro people who populate Guam until reading "No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies" (Astra House, New York 2022) by queer Indigenous writer and human rights lawyer Julian ...

For most of its history, Guam's forests developed without large tree-climbing snakes hunting birds in the canopy. Native wildlife adapted to an environment where many species nested with little need ...

In Guam — where maternal mortality and infant mortality rates are higher than the national average and CHamoru infants are five times as likely to die before age 1 — a critical care nurse at Guam ...