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17 de may. de 2024 · Chamorro, indigenous people of Guam. The ancestors of the Chamorro are thought to have come to the Mariana Islands from insular Southeast Asia (Indonesia and the Philippines) about 1600 BCE. The disease and violence wrought by the Spanish reduced the Chamorro population to about 1,000 by 1820.
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Hace 2 días · People. Native Guamanians, ethnically called Chamorros, are of basically Malayo-Indonesian descent with a considerable admixture of Spanish, Filipino, Mexican, and other European and Asian ancestries. Chamorros and other Micronesians constitute about half the population.
7 de may. de 2024 · The photograph below freezes in time a history that most mainland Americans know nothing about. It captures three Chamorro women on their way to the first public mass at Camp Susupe, an American World War II civilian internment camp on Saipan, the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific. The woman on the left holding the crucifix ...
Hace 3 días · Chamorros are the largest ethnic group, but a minority on the multi-ethnic island. The territory spans 210 square miles (540 km 2; 130,000 acres) and has a population density of 775 per square mile (299/km 2). The Chamorro people settled Guam and the Mariana islands approximately 3,500 years ago.
15 de may. de 2024 · These people became the indigenous Chamorro and were influenced by later migrations, including the Micronesians in the first millennium A.D., and island Southeast Asians around 900. Society was stratified, with higher classes living along the coast and lower classes living inland.
Hace 5 días · The lead scientist of a study examining the genetics of Chamorros said it was “a huge surprise” when researchers discovered a connection between Native Americans and the indigenous people of Guam...
15 de may. de 2024 · Among the first victims of the attack were Teddy Cruz and Larry Pangelinan, young Chamorro kitchen workers who perished when a bomb hit the Pan American Hotel at Orote Point. Also killed was Ensign Robert White, who manned an anti-aircraft gun aboard the USS Penguin.
