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Chamorro
CHamoru[1]
Chamorro performers at the Pacific Islander Festival Association inSan Diego,2010
Total population
147,798 (2010 census)[2]
Regions with significant populations
United States
Guam63,035 (2020 census)[3]
Northern Mariana Islands12,902 (2010 census)[4]
Languages
Chamorro(native)
English(auxiliary)
Religion
PredominantlyRoman Catholic
Related ethnic groups
OtherMicronesians

TheChamorro people(/tʃɑːˈmɔːroʊ,tʃə-/;[5][6]alsoCHamoru[1]) are theIndigenous peopleof theMariana Islands,politically divided between theUnited States territoryofGuamand the encompassingCommonwealth of the Northern Mariana IslandsinMicronesia,a commonwealth of the US. Today, significant Chamorro populations also exist in several U.S. states, includingHawaii,California,Washington,Texas,Tennessee,Oregon,andNevada,all of which together are designated asPacific IslanderAmericans according to the U.S. Census. According to the 2000 Census, about 64,590 people of Chamorro ancestry live inGuamand another 19,000 live in the Northern Marianas.[7]

Etymology

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Precolonial society in the Marianas was based on a caste system,Chamoribeing the name of the ruling, highest caste.[8]

After Spain annexed and colonized the Marianas, the caste system eventually became extinct under Spanish rule, and all of the indigenous residents of the archipelago eventually came to be referred to by the SpanishexonymChamorro.The nameCHamoruis anendonymderived from theindigenous orthographyof the Spanish exonym. Thedigraphchis treated as a single letter, hence both characters are capitalized at the beginning of a sentence or proper noun, much likeijinDutch.

Some people theorize that Spanish definitions of the wordChamorroplayed a role in its being used to refer to the island's indigenous inhabitants. Not only is"Chamorro" a Spanish surname;in Spanish it also means "leg of pork", "beardless [wheat]", "bald", "close-cropped", or "shorn/shaven/[hair or wool] cut close to the surface".[9][10][11]Around 1670, a Catholic missionary reported that men were sporting a style in which their heads were shaven, save for a "finger-length" amount of hair at the crown. This hairstyle has often been portrayed in modern-day depictions of early Chamorros, but the first European descriptions of the physical appearance of the Chamorro people in the 1520s and '30s report that both sexes had long black hair, which they wore down to their waists or even further. Another description, given about 50 years later, reported that the natives at that time were tying up their hair into one or two topknots.[12]

Chamorro institutions on Guam advocate for the spellingCHamoru,as reflected in the 2017 Guam Public Law 33-236.[13]In 2018, the Commission on the CHamoru Language and the Teaching of the History and Culture of the Indigenous People of Guam announcedCHamoruas the preferred standardized spelling of the language and people, as opposed to the conventional spellingChamorro.[14]

Language

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Main article:Chamorro language
Reception of aManila galleonby the Chamorro in theLadrones Islands,circa1590Boxer Codex

TheChamorro languageis included in theMalayo-Polynesian subgroupof theAustronesianfamily. Because Guam was colonized by Spain for over 300 years, Chamorro has acquired many loanwords fromSpanish.An example is how the traditional Chamorro number system was replaced by Spanish numbers.[15]

Chamorro is often spoken in many homes, but this is becoming less common. However, a resurgence of interest in reviving the language has occurred, and all public schools on both Guam and the Northern Marianas are now required by law to teach the Chamorro language as part of the elementary-, middle-, and high-school curriculum.[16][17]

A commonly spoken phrase in Chamorro ishåfa adai,a greeting which approximates "hello" in English.[18]

History

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Early Chamorros

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Reconstruction of howlatte stonestructures may have appeared

The Chamorros are commonly believed to have arrived in the Marianas Islands from thePhilippinesc. 1,500 BC.[19]They are most closely related to otherAustronesian-speaking nativesfrom the Philippines, easternIndonesia(specifically inMalukuandSulawesi),Taiwanese aborigines,and peoples of theCaroline Islandsto the south (in particular the outer islands of theFederated States of Micronesiastate ofYap). Recent advanced DNA testing conducted on the remains of ancient Chamorros showed that the lineage of both the Unai and the Latte periods originated during the Holocene Epoch in eastern Indonesia, most likely Sulawesi, with no direct prehistoric connection to the Philippines.[20]They were expert seafarers and skilled craftspeople familiar with intricate weaving and detailed pottery-making. Thelatte stone,a megalithic rock pillar topped with a hemisphericalcapstone,was used by early Chamorros as foundation for buildings, and has since been appropriated as a national symbol.

Chamorro society was based on what sociologist Lawrence J. Cunningham termed the "matrilinealavuncuclan",one characteristic of which is that the brother(s) of the female parent plays a more primary paternal role than biological male parent of a child.[21][22]

Agriculture

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Spanish colonial records show that Chamorro farmers planted seeds according to the phases of the moon. For example, farmers on Guam often plant tuber crops such assweet potatoandyamsat full moon during low tide.[23]

Culture

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Cosmogony and religion
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Chamorros fishing, 1819

According to early Chamorro legend, the world was created by a twin brother and sister, Puntan and Fu'uña.[24]As he lay dying, Puntan instructed his sister Fu'uña to make his body into the ingredients of the universe. She used his eyes to create the Sun and Moon, his eyebrows to make rainbows, and most of the rest of his parts into various features of the Earth. Once her work was complete, she descended on an island called "Guåhan",and transformed herself into a giant rock. This rock split, and from it emerged all human beings. Some believe that this rock was once located at the site of a church inAgat,while others believe it is the phallic-shapedLaso de Fualocated inFouha BayinUmatac.

Ancient Chamorros engaged inancestor veneration,but did not practice a formal "religion" in the sense of worshiping deities. At least one account by Christoph Carl Fernberger in 1623 holds thathuman sacrificewas practiced to placate a "great fish". This claim may be related to a Chamorro legend about why the island of Guam is narrow in the middle. According to the legend, a gigantic fish was gradually eating away at the island from both sides. Although the ancient Chamorros supposedly had magical abilities, the huge creature eluded them. When the men were unsuccessful in hunting it down, the women used their hair to weave a net, which grew larger as they sang. The singing enchanted the fish, and lured it into the giant net.[25]

Enraged that Father Diego Luis de San Vitores had baptized his child, a Chamorro man and his friend killed the priest and Filipino catechist Pedro Calungsod in April 1672, dumping their bodies in the ocean.[26]

Castes and classes
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Village scene depicting caste differences, 1819. Apart from the man at the far left, all men and women are depicted as fully nude.

Chamorro society was divided into two maincastes,and continued to be so for well over a century after the Spanish first arrived. According to historical records provided by Europeans, such as FatherCharles Le Gobien,apparent racial differences existed between the subservientManachangcaste, and the higherChamor[r]i,the Manachang being described as shorter, darker-skinned, and physically less hardy than the Chamori. The Chamori caste was further subdivided into the upper-middle classAchoti/Acha'otand the highest, the rulingMatua/Mataoclass. Achoti could gain status as Matua, and Matua could be reduced to Achoti, but Manachang were born and died as such and had no recourse to improve their station. Members of the Manachang and the Chamori were not permitted to intermingle. All three classes performed physical labor, but had specifically different duties.[8][27]Le Gobien theorized that Chamorro society comprised the geographical convergence of peoples of different ethnic origins. This idea may be supportable by the evidence of linguistic characteristics of the Chamorro language and social customs.

Clothing and beauty practices
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Prior to Spanish contact, Chamorro boys and men wore no clothing and went about fully nude at all times. Chamorro girls went nude until around the age of eight to ten, at which point they began to wear a small genital covering made either of bark, one or more leaves, a piece of a turtle shell or in some cases matting. Both sexes at times wore hats of woven leaves to protect themselves from the sun.[12]

Father Pierre Coomans wrote of the practice among Chamorro women of teeth blackening/dental lacquering (also a widespread custom in ancientMaritime Southeast Asia,Japan,Southeastern China,and parts ofIndochina), which they considered beautiful as a distinction apart from animals. Fernberger wrote in his account of the Chamorros that "penis pins"were employed as a chastity measure for young males, a type of genital piercing similar to those employed by inhabitants of precolonial maritime Southeast Asia.[28]

Folklore
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Taotaomona are believed to live near Latte stones

The Chamorro creation story revolves around two celestial siblings named Puntan and Fu'una. In time, this creation story underwent a series of modifications due to the complications in passing the story along from generation to generation. In this Chamorro creation story, Puntan and Fu'una create the world with their body parts and souls. Puntan's various body parts were turned into the land, his chest into the sky, his eyebrows into rainbows, and his eyes into the sun and moon. Fu’una having the ability to give life, brought the sun, soil, and waters to life, and with a final transformation, she turned into stone and gave birth to the Chamorro people. Evidence supporting this creation story can be seen through the names of the villages on Guam as they are named after body parts. Barrigada translates to flank, Tiyan translates to stomach, Hagatna translates to blood and Mongmong translates to a heartbeat.[29]

Traditional beliefs among the Chamorros include tales oftaotaomo'naandbirak,as well as the Spanish-introduced concepts ofduendesand hauntings in places such as in Yona, other old buildings, schools, hotel elevators, and the Ma’ina bridge.[30]Taotaomo'na are spirits of ancient Chamorros. Birak is a broader term that may refer not only to the undead, but also to demons or generalelementaltypes. Taotaomona essentially translates to "people of early times," referring to the ancestors of the Chamorro peoples. The Taotaomona is a supernatural ancestral spirit that Chamorros and some neighboring islanders from Rota and Saipan believe in. The Taotaomona possess a strength that far exceeds man and has the ability to cause sickness and death to those who offend them. The appearance of a Taotaomona can vary as they can be a female or male and can take an attractive form or a monstrous form.[31]

Spanish rule

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Hunter 1
Hunter 2
Chamorro hunters,Boxer Codex(c. 1590)
Chamorro girls in the 1930s

On March 6, 1521,Ferdinand Magellanand his men, after having crossed thePacific Ocean,had encountered the first "Indios" since leaving South America.[32]Later Spanish visitors named the inhabitants "Chamurres", derived from a local term for the upper caste; this was then converted to "Chamorros", an old Spanish term for "bald", perhaps in reference to the local habit to shave.[32]

Over the centuries, theMariana Islandshave been occupied by several foreign countries (Spain,Germany,Japan,United States), and present-day Chamorro society is almost entirely multiethnic, with the inhabitants of Luta/Rotabeing the least so. The Chamorros are primarily of Austronesian ancestry, but began to significantly interact with Spanish andFilipinosduring the Spanish colonial era (1521–1898 AD). Primarily since the late 19th century onward, many Chamorros have intermarried with other Pacific Islanders, mainland Americans, Filipinos,Chinese,andJapanese.

During the Spanish colonial era, the Chamorro population was greatly reduced by the introduction of European diseases and changes in society during theSpanish-Chamorro Wars.The Spaniards killed many Chamorro men[citation needed]and relocated most others to Guam[citation needed],where they lived in severalparishesto prevent rebellion. An estimated 100,000 Chamorros may have populated the Marianas when Europeans first settled in 1667. By 1800, they numbered under 1,000.[citation needed]Within the parishes, the Spaniards eventually focused their efforts on converting the natives toCatholicism.Father Frances X. Hezel stated that Chamorros caught or reported engaging inpagan"sorcery" were publicly punished. Through this, they were givenSpanish surnamesthroughCatálogo Alfabético de Apellidosor Alphabetic Catalog of Surnames.Spanish soldiers settled in Guam and all Chamorro have Spanish ancestry.[citation needed]

During theSpanish–American War,the United Statescaptured Guamon June 21, 1898. Under theTreaty of Paris,signed on December 10, 1898, Spain ceded Guam to the United States effective April 11, 1899. Guam is among the 17nonself-governing territories listed by the United Nations.

World War II

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Group of Chamorros on Guam in the mid-1940s

BeforeWorld War II,five American jurisdictions were in the Pacific Ocean: Guam andWake Islandin Micronesia,American SamoaandHawaiiin Polynesia, and thePhilippinesin Southeast Asia. On December 8, 1941, hours after theattack on Pearl Harbor,Japanese forces from the Marianas launched aninvasion of Guam.Chamorros from the Northern Marianas, who had been under Japanese rule for more than 20 years, were brought to Guam to assist the Japanese administration. This, combined with the harsh treatment of Chamorros during the two-and-a-half-year occupation, created a rift that would become the main reason Chamorros rejectedthe referendumon reunification approved by the Northern Marianas in the 1960s. During the occupation, Chamorros were subjected to forced labor, incarceration, torture, and execution.American forces recaptured the islandon July 21, 1944;Liberation Daycommemorates the victory.

After World War II, theGuam Organic Act of 1950established Guam as anunincorporated organized territory of the United States,provided for the structure of the island's civilian government, and granted the people U.S. citizenship. The governor of Guam was federally appointed until 1968 when theGuam Elective Governor Actprovided for the office's popular election. Since Guam is not a U.S. state, U.S. citizens residing in Guam are not allowed to vote for president and their congressional representative is a nonvoting member. They do, however, get to vote for party delegates in presidential primaries.

The increasing numbers of Chamorros, especially Chamorro youth, relocating to the U.S. mainland, has complicated both the definition and preservation of Chamorro identity. On Guam, a Chamorro rights movement has developed since the United States gained control of the island. Leaders of the movement seek to return ancestral lands to the Chamorro people, and attainself-determination.

Modern Chamorro culture

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Further information:Culture of Guam
Chamorros at church inInarajan, Guamin the mid-1940s

Chamorro culture has over the years acquired noticeable influences from Spanish, Mexican, American, Japanese, and Filipino cultures, as well as the presence of fellow Oceanic (mostly Micronesian) groups. Influence from the German era in the Northern Marianas is most visible in the form of certain given names and family surnames.

The prehistoric concept ofinafa'maolek( "doing good for each other", often translated as interdependence) is a core value of traditional Chamorro culture. Respect for one's family, community, and the elderly (man åmko') are major components, although this varies from person to person and family to family. The culture is now strongly influenced by American customs and values, largely because the Marianas archipelago (partitionedinto Guam and theCNMI) is currently possessed by the United States of America, as organized but unincorporated territories; in addition, most people of Chamorro descent now live outside of the Marianas in the United States. TheAmerican militaryhas a major cultural influence among the Chamorro; enlistment rates are higher in the Marianas than in any other place in the US. On Guam, the enlistment rate is around 14 people per 10,000;[33]by contrast, the US state ofMontana,which has the highest per capita enlistment, has a rate near half that, with about eight people per 10,000. (See theGuampage for more details about this topic.)

Peter Gumataotaois the first Chamorro two-star flag officer in the United States military.

Cockfightingand cockfight-related gambling were introduced by the Spanish and have long been a significant pastime in Chamoru culture, especially among men. It is still popular among the members of older generations and with Filipino immigrants, who raise roosters for cockfighting purposes; however,mixed martial artsfighting competitionshave grown in popularity as spectator sports, particularly among the members of more recent generations. Large-scale events are held throughout the year on Guam and Saipan, which feature local competitors and guest participants from abroad.

Chamorro life has long centered on one'smatriarchalclan.The concept of a "clan" stemming from a common female ancestor is still observed. Large extended families remain central to life in the Marianas.

Diabetes and heart disease have become increasingly common among the indigenous population, as well as among nonindigenous Oceanic people living in the Marianas, particularly the CarolinianRefaluwasch.[34]

Traditional healers calledsuruhånu(orsuruhånafor women) are still greatly respected for their knowledge of herbal treatments and spirits.

Religion

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Most Chamorros areRoman Catholic[35]and few in the Marianas still maintain some customs and beliefs from the time before the first European conquests; some residents of the Marianas will still ask permission from ancestral spirits before entering parts of jungles.

Among the 56 states and territories of the United States, the Mariana Islands have the highest rate of religious self-identification, with a combined percentage of only 1.75% of the population (Guam at 2.5% and the CNMI at just 1%)not claiming membership in or affiliation witha particular religion.

Cuisine

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Further information:Cuisine of the Mariana IslandsandCulture of Guam § Cuisine
Chamorro red rice

Chamorro cuisine is influenced by various cultures. Examples of popular foods of foreign origin include various types of sweet or savoryempanada,originally introduced by Spain, andpancit,a noodle dish from thePhilippines.The Spanish settlement in the 17th century also introduced cattle, leading to dishes liketinala' katne.[36]

Archeological evidence from islands in the Marianas reveals that rice was cultivated there since prehistory.[37]Red rice made withachotiis a distinct staple food that strongly identifies Chamorro cuisine among the many dishes of fellow Pacific Island cultures. It is commonly served for special events, such as parties (gupotor "fiestas" ),nobenas,and occasions such as a high-school or college graduations. The condimentfina'denne'accompanies most meals. Fruits such aslemmai,mangga,niyok,andbilimbinesare consumed in various local recipes. In the Marianas, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and American cuisine are also commonly available. Local cookies are known asguyuria.

Locally distinct foods includekelaguen,a dish in which meat is denatured in whole or in part by citric acid rather than heat;tinaktak,a meat dish made with coconut milk; andkå'du fanihi(flying fox/fruit batsoup). Fruit bats and local birds have become scarce in modern times primarily due to the World War II-era introduction of thebrown tree snake,which decimated the populations of local birds and threatens thefanihi(fruit bat) population, as well. Illegal hunting of fruit bats also threatens existing populations.[38]

Spamand other canned meats were introduced to the islands after World War II, leading to a dietary shift.[39]

Diaspora in the United States

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According to the 2010 census, 148,220 Chamorros are living in the United States, mostly from Guam, but also from the Northern Marianas and Saipan.[40]

The early Chamorros who migrated to the US were Guamanians who moved in the first decade of the 20th century. In the following decades, small groups of Guamanians emigrated to Hawaii and the Western United States, where they worked as farmers.[41]The population of Guam got the American citizenship in 1929.[42]So, after the end ofWorld War II,many more Guamanians emigrated to the US. Most of them were in the military or married with military people.[41]

In 1950, the population of Guam gained the full American citizenship,[43]which favoured Guamanian migration to the US. So, the first major Guamanian migration emerged and more of 160 Guamanians emigrated to the US in the '50s. Many of them moved to California.[44]In 1952, Guamanian immigrants founded their first organization in US, the Guam Territorial Society (later renamed as the Guam Society of America), in Washington, D.C., where many worked for the Department of Defense and developing military operations.

In the 1960s, hundreds of Guamanians migrated to the United States, when the largest numbers emigrated to this country. Most of them were fleeing theKorean WarandTyphoon Karen.[45]

In the '70s, another wave of Guamanians arrived in the US. In 1986, the US acquired theNorthern Marianas Islands,[46]which favoured migration from islands to the US.

As of 2020,Pierce County, Washington,has the largest Chamorro population with 4,931 persons or 0.62% of the total population.[47]

Pop singerPia Miais of mixed Chamorro ancestry

Notable Chamorros

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See also

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