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The Chamorro Creation Story, Guam Land Struggles, and Contemporary Poetry

The Chamorro Creation Story, Guam Land Struggles, and Contemporary Poetry This essay focuses on the creation story of the Indigenous Chamorro people from the western Pacific Island of Guam. The essay presents and analyzes the deeper meaning of the story of Puntan and Fu’una as they birth the island of Guam and the Chamorro people. Moreover, it maps the history of Catholic missionization that displaced and replaced the Chamorro creation story. The essay covers the related issue of how colonization removed Chamorros from their ancestral lands and appropriated these lands for imperial, military, tourism, and urban development. Then it highlights the decades-long struggle of Chamorro activists to reclaim the land. Lastly, it turns to contemporary Chamorro poetry to illustrate how authors have revitalized and retold the story of Puntan and Fu’una to critique and protest the degradation of Chamorro lands and to advocate for the protection and return of the land. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png English Language Notes Duke University Press

The Chamorro Creation Story, Guam Land Struggles, and Contemporary Poetry

Perez, Craig Santos; Gómez, Leila
English Language Notes , Volume 58 (1) – Apr 1, 2020
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Abstract

This essay focuses on the creation story of the Indigenous Chamorro people from the western Pacific Island of Guam. The essay presents and analyzes the deeper meaning of the story of Puntan and Fu’una as they birth the island of Guam and the Chamorro people. Moreover, it maps the history of Catholic missionization that displaced and replaced the Chamorro creation story. The essay covers the related issue of how colonization removed Chamorros from their ancestral lands and appropriated these lands for imperial, military, tourism, and urban development. Then it highlights the decades-long struggle of Chamorro activists to reclaim the land. Lastly, it turns to contemporary Chamorro poetry to illustrate how authors have revitalized and retold the story of Puntan and Fu’una to critique and protest the degradation of Chamorro lands and to advocate for the protection and return of the land.

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English Language Notes – Duke University Press

Published: Apr 1, 2020

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    Phillips, Michael F.
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    Viernes, James Perez
  • About
  • Update: Land Ownership on Guam.
    Aguon, Julian
  • Chamorro World View.
    Bevacqua, Michael Lujan
  • Pågat.
    Bevacqua, Michael Lujan
  • Pågat Protest Today.
    Bevacqua, Michael Lujan
  • Taotaomo’na.
    Bevacqua, Michael Lujan
  • Enframing ‘I TaoTao Tano’: Colonialism, Militarism, and Tourism in Twentieth Century Guam.
    Camacho, Keith L.
  • Homomilitarism: The Same-Sex Erotics of the US Empire in Guam and Hawaiʻi
    Camacho, Keith L.
  • The Sella Bay Ammunition Wharf Controversy: Economic Development, Indigenous Rights, and Colonialism in Guam.
    Clement, MichaelJr.
  • Navy Wives/Native Lives: The Cultural and Historical Relations between Naval Wives and Chamorro Women in Guam, 1898–1945
    DeLisle, Christine Taitano.
  • Paved with Good Intentions . . . Roads, Citizenship, and a Century of American Colonialism in Guam.
    Diaz, Vicente M.
  • The Partition of the Marianas: A Diplomatic History, 1898–1919
    Farrell, Don A.
  • Folktale: Puntan and Fu’una; Gods of Creation.
    Hattori, Anne Perez
  • Guardians of Our Soil: Indigenous Responses to Post–World War II Land Appropriation on Guam
    Hattori, Anne Perez Armentrout, L. Eve
  • From Conquest to Colonization: Spain in the Marianas, 1690–1740
    Hezel, Francis X.
  • From Conversion to Conquest: The Early Spanish Mission in the Marianas
    Hezel, Francis X.
  • Japanisation Policy for the Chamorros of Guam, 1941–1944.
    Higuchi, Wakako
  • Japan’s Industrial Development of a U.S. Territory: Guam, 1941–1944
    Higuchi, Wakako
  • Discontiguous States of America: The Paradox of Unincorporation in Craig Santos Perez’s Poetics of Chamorro Guam.
    Lai, Paul
  • Fortress Guam: Resistance to US Military Mega-buildup.
    Natividad, LisaLinda Kirk, Gwyn
  • Chachalåni.
    Pascua, Jay Baza
  • Fu’una.
    Perez, Celeste
  • Contested Sites: Pacific Resistance in Guam to U.S. Empire
    Perez, Michael
  • Inafa’maolek: Striving for Harmony.
    Perez-Iyechad, Lilli
  • Land.
    Phillips, Michael F.
  • Land Ownership on Guam.
    Phillips, Michael F.
  • Lukao Fuha yan i Pina’ok Tumaiguini
    Punzalan, Bernard
  • The Taotaomona Stories of Guam
    Soker, Donald
  • Origin of Chamorro as an Ethnic Identifier.
    Taitano, Gina E.
  • Ancient Chamorro Kinship and Land Tenure.
    Tolentina, Dominica
  • American Education and the Acculturation of the Chamorros of Guam
    Underwood, Robert.
  • Fanhasso I Taotao Sumay: Displacement, Dispossession, and Survival in Guam.
    Viernes, James Perez
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