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In this panel session, faculty speakers individually and collectively will engage in thoughtful conversation depicting narrative accounts or storying about education for our local and regional community. These narratives or stories are premised in the action and process of assessing educational practice and resonate to the broader concept or phenomenon called assessment. The speakers will invite the audience to reflect on sensemaking and storying or restorying about education: assessing the past, present, and extending an outlook for the future and shared advancement for our communities. The speakers hope to spur continuous reflective dialogue and further storying about educational assessment, and the future of education as informed through varied individual and collective stories.

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This presentation will convey narratives as perspectives on advancing higher education. The presenters will describe the value of narratives that shape and contribute to the advancement of new academic programs, and prompt reimagining current educational programs to serve our institutional and community stakeholders.

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In the spirit of 'Pacific Futures: The Stories We Tell,' this presentation introduces a groundbreaking project from the University of Guam (UOG) that reimagines the narrative of educational assessment within the Pacific region and beyond. With the development of a new standardized Critical Thinking Assessment Test (CTAT), tailored for UOG’s diverse student body, this initiative exemplifies innovation and resilience in educational practice. The CTAT, rooted in Bloom's Taxonomy, evaluates higher-order thinking skills crucial for navigating the complexities of the 21st century. Designed over two semesters, the test comprises five categories—Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating—each with nine multiple-choice questions to assess critical thinking sub-skills. Set for its inaugural distribution in Fall 2024, the project embodies a forward-looking approach to education, highlighting the interplay between narratives of resilience and the cultivation of future-ready minds. This presentation will explore the CTAT’s development process, its pedagogical underpinnings, and its potential impact on shaping the narratives of future generations in the Pacific and beyond.

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The demand for culturally responsive teaching practices is vital in today's diverse educational landscape. Guam Department of Education (GDOE) provides support to students from 21 ethnic groups, with the English as a Second Language (ESL) program boasting an enrollment of 18,690 students, representing 63% of the total student population (Guam Department of Education, 2019). Culturally responsive teaching acknowledges and honors students' diverse cultural backgrounds, languages, and life experiences, fostering an inclusive and equitable learning environment. This presentation delves into culturally responsive teaching methodologies, including the children's book 'Little Girl, Big Dreams.' This book, narrating the dreams of a young CHamoru girl, serves as a tool for initiating discussions on cultural identity, resilience, and aspirations. By exploring the intersection of culturally responsive teaching and culturally relevant literature, this presentation aims to facilitate critical conversations about identity and community, contributing to the ongoing effort to create inclusive and empowering educational environments for all students.

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The team of fourteen indigenous teachers in Guam, Saipan, and Rota during the late 1800s, played a crucial role in shaping public education. By 1890, these dedicated individuals, many of whom were elderly, had devoted decades to their educational mission. The primary schools established in the Spanish Mariana Islands must have fostered substantial engagement between instructors and pupils. Within the colonial context, these schools also were spaces of authority for indigenous men and women. This study delves into the contextual background of the 1800s Mariana Islands, shedding light on the determination of these maestras and maestros —Chamorros, Spanish, and Filipinos alike. These pioneering educators, hitherto silenced by colonial history and overlooked in post-colonial narratives, navigated adversity. In doing so, they facilitated access to modern primary education for thousands of children, their resilience standing as an untold story within the complex interplay of education and colonialism in the Pacific.

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Like borderlands (Anzaldua, 2012), Caribbean identities – educators’ included—are often negotiated ‘pon dih dam. Navigating life on the dam, like writing, is often messy, especially when it involves making the personal public. In this presentation, I will share “Dam Stories” or personal learning histories as an interdisciplinary framework for writing invention exercises. “Dam Stories,” extend discussions on “making” knowledge. I suggest that composing ethical personal learning histories from the locations of “any village”—dams, creeks, rivers, or oceans—invites uninvited vernacular practices and the commonplaces to transform writing practice and instruction (Wilson, 2008). Making personal narratives public “help[s] us understand how writing embodies who we are, and how individuals impact and are impacted” (Schafer, 2013) when negotiating the roles of educators’ (un)heard voices in the classroom in the Caribbean, the Pacific region, and beyond. Attendees are invited to share how educators can use storytelling, as “Dam Stories” towards sustainable pedagogy.

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In recent years, universities have been increasingly called upon to make meaningful contributions to the communities they serve beyond the traditional roles of teaching and research. One way that universities can promote community engagement is by combining student learning with community service through student internships, practica, and fieldwork. These service learning experiences involve reciprocal relationships in which students receive training and experience from community agencies and, at the same time, provide volunteer service to the community. Employing a narrative approach, this presentation will highlight three different stories from Psychology, Social Work, and Counseling describing each program’s experience in building and maintaining partnerships in the community to support service learning.

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This panel will feature a cohort of Chamoru language and culture researchers who will share reflections about their learning experience. Participants will discuss features of primary source documents relevant to the Chamoru language and the application of these materials to ongoing research. The panel will also share significant findings about the process of documentation, transcription and translation. Parts of the presentation will be shared exclusively in the Chamoru language.

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The history of the islands of maritime Southeast Asia, Micronesia, and Oceania involves one of the greatest stories of human movement. It was made possible by Indigenous Austronesian seafaring, a cultural tradition still in practice, which can be studied as an important site of knowledge. As Vincent Diaz notes, today the canoe is capable of much more than journeying as it does a lot of “heavy lifting.” It functions symbolically in the lives of people throughout the world with connections to the Pacific. Gregory Ulmer’s concept of MyStory indicates that personal narratives often integrate events that “occur in the external world.” They are personal, social, and historical. In this article the author constructs a MyStory, merging and weaving the elements of their own Pacific connections, which involves ancestry in the Visayas, surfing in California, professor in the Marianas, and seafaring apprentice in Micronesia, with the stories of others.

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UOG Theatre has presented local productions every semester for the past two years. This semester, as part of our senior showcase two local works are being presented. This first is a dramatic poem written by Dr Evelyn Flores,To Hånum-Måmi, i Nanå-ta, student directed by Uwel Mendiola. The second is Buried Beneath: Bombs and Latte, created and directed by dakota camacho, featuring senior theatre student Xavier Bryce Pegarido Borja. This panel discussion between the poet-authors and the student creative artists will be moderated by Dr Troy McVey, professor of theatre. The conversation will navigate the creative process of conceiving the pieces, the interpretative process of bringing the pieces to life, and the power of telling Pacific stories through theatre. The panel will take place the morning after opening night for the production, so the artistic successes and audience responses will also be discussed.

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Composition Companion Space

HSS102

9:00 AM to 3:30 PM

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UOG freshmen, in their first year writing classes, learn that because writing is situated in multiple and varied contexts, writers are never through learning to write. Thus, as university faculty we are all writing instructors, helping students navigate the genres, rhetorical moves, and conventions of writing in each discipline. In keeping with the conference theme of narratives and future possibilities, faculty and students are invited to this session as a space for conversations about writing in their disciplines in order to further understanding of the many contexts in which our students write. A companion space is available for students to share their college writing experiences. In addition to the session itself, throughout the conference, attendees may visit a space for writing or continuing to talk about writing.

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Movements of empowerment throughout the Pacific have been fueled by stories of resistance but also of articulation and collaboration. As critical readers, viewers, and listeners, how are we to engage with these stories? Through what lenses shall we unpack them? On whose terms? Are Western theories and methods of analysis and interpretation adequate or might they simply reinforce the iconic and ironic disguises of a Native people’s suppression, as argued by Ojibwe scholar, Gerald Vizenor. If we are to deploy Indigenous means of analysis, what would these look like and what would be their complexities? In this panel, a group of budding scholars from the graduate English seminar, EN680 Indigenous Literary Theories, tackle these unruly tasks of defining what such theoretical approaches might look like. They will explore ways of interrogating a story through four indigenous lenses that challenge Western approaches.

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Linalai i Fáfa'ulos is a reimagination of chant as a technology for navigation. Born and Raised in Coast Salish Territory, Dakota Camacho's new album explores how ancestral technologies can be adapted for our current contexts. Through weaving traditional chant, fino' håya, prayer, and hip hop music, Dakota composes a series of contemporary 'chants' that guide a child of the Diaspora back home; whether home is the time/mind of their ancestors, an island troubled by militourism, colonialism, and domination, or simply within. This album is a form of creative research that exemplifies how methodologies of Micronesian storytelling can be engaged to produce (k)new knowledge and (k)new futures.

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A singing tradition consisting of extemporaneous and stock lyrics sung to a few well-known melodies and rhyme schemes was until very recently a primary form of entertainment for Chamorros throughout the Marianas. Often referred to collectively as ‘kantan chamorita’, scholars generally agree that these songs have indigenous roots in the deep past. Nevertheless, little emphasis has been directed towards the many archaic words and names found in kantan chamorrita song lyrics. This presentation examines a few such lyrics and proposes that references can be corroborated with centuries old historical documents.

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Sound Knowledge is a project that aims to situate music-making and Pacific indigenous-ecological soundings as significant knowledge practices in Western Pacific island worlds. Sound Knowledge, formed in the performance of musical/cultural practice, may prove to be key to survival in the complex postcolonial predicament of Micronesia. This presentation is concerned with music-making and chant experienced in recent ethnographic fieldwork. I contend that Native sonic processes reveal how acts of listening are critical to understanding Pacific island worlds. These mediums sound out the particularities of Indigenous voicings in ways that are meaningful for Pacific Islanders while also possessing the potential to reach broader communities. Such knowledge practices can be a transformative means of engagement that converge at the nexus between efforts to perpetuate healing practices that also protect land-ocean as ancestor.

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As future stories are being created and shared, it is important to remember the narratives of the past and the wisdom within it, including the stories of Guam’s manåmko’. Breaking Wave’s Theatre Company’s The Oral Storytelling Project began in 2022, with the goal of creating art for and by indigenous CHamoru, inspired by their manåmko’ and the Tradition of oral storytelling. This project explores generational oral storytelling while respecting our manåmko’s voice and history with its five CHamoru writers; myself being one of the writers. I would like to share my experience with the Oral Storytelling Project, its creative process and its staged reading: Hita Mane’estoria: We Are Storytellers, which was co-produced with Breaking Wave and UOG Theatre. I would also share how the stories of our manåmko are vital in the growth and preservation of the CHamoru culture and how we can tell their story.

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This panel will discuss the results of the Pacific Islands Cohort of College Students (PICCS) survey administered by Health Sciences majors. The PICCS survey was developed in 2010 as a response to the non-communicable disease (NCD) epidemic amongst Pacific Islanders. The survey is administered annually to students at the University of Guam to measure various health behaviors to include, but not limited to cigarette and vaping use, alcohol consumption, and nutrition habits. In this panel, five student groups will each present on a research question based on their analysis of the PICCS data. They will explore variable relationships such as, fast food consumption and academic performance or sleep quality and feelings of distress. The panel is not only student-led research but the results will directly impact the health of the university overall. The analyses conducted can aid us in building health interventions that will positively impact University of Guam students.

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Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders continue to experience the highest disease outcomes in the United States. Yet, monitoring of health indicators through the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) has excluded the United States territories and affiliated Pacific Islands. To address this knowledge gap, we propose a multidisciplinary approach develop a Micronesian Data Laboratory at the University of Guam, and to conduct the first Guam NHIS with a representative probability sample of adult and adolescent residents from 500 households. We began working with a Partnership Steering Committee and community partners in December 2022 and continued to conduct focus group discussions throughout 2023 to modify and refine the Guam NHIS questionnaires. Implementation of the GNHIS will begin in March 2024. We will involve our community partners in the data analysis, translation, and dissemination phases, and seek their input in identifying needs for local programs and policies and supporting future collaborative grant proposals.

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Heart-centered archaeological practices are used to explore collections-based research with relations. This presentation shares a working definition of a methodology that poses and answers scholarly questions. It is a form of archaeological excavation in its own right. Searching with mentors, ghosts, spirits and colleagues through the contents of boxes and old catalogs found deep in repositories. It is a process full of science, magic, kinship-making and kinship-affirming that include collections generated over a period of decades by academic institutions, government agencies, museums, volunteer organizations, and cultural resource management firms so as to gather stories and storytell.

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This presentation is the outcome of a senior level sociology course on Human Ecology at the University of Guam, and presents research through both a poster and a website developed to serve as a resource for school and college students throughout Micronesia. The research focuses on the three board theme within Human Ecology: Population, Consumerism and the Environment. Its approach is interdisciplinary in that it combines ideas from different fields, like sociology, geography, and biology, to understand the dynamic relationship between the three board themes. People and the environment affect each other in complex ways, influenced by culture, technology, and the economy. We explore the impact that overpopulation and pollution cause on the environment. The focus is on both global and local issues in Micronesia and Guam, and explores how these local issues relate to larger global problems. Additionally, this research looks at the specific problems in Micronesia and Guam and proposes solutions that are informed by the reality of island people and culture.

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This presentation will feature health psychology research being conducted by two students in UOG’s Master of Science in Clinical Psychology Program. Nikolas Gutierrez will present his plan for conducting narrative research on the lived experience of dementia. Lauren Villanueva will present her plan for conducting narrative research on breast and gynecological cancer. Discussion will focus on the role of research in contributing to the resolution of healthcare disparities in our community.

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While college students want to return to campus for face-to-face instruction, they also encounter challenges of readjustment to campus life post Covid-19 pandemic. Stressors such as conflict in peer group or romantic relationships, financial strain, family problems and parental expectations may have accumulative effects on psychological wellbeing. Poor lifestyle choices can also exacerbate vulnerability, whereas spirituality and healthy relationships often mitigate factors that lead to mental health problems in college students. In this study, we seek to examine the relationship between these variables on mental health of University of Guam students. Guam’s students are demographically different from other U.S. colleges in terms of ethnicity, cultural diversity, and income levels. Students are sometimes part of the first generation pursuing higher education in their family. Many students live at home and hold part time jobs. Identifying primary sources of stress will help us develop targeted prevention strategies and interventions to reduce risk for suicide and enhance overall psychological wellbeing for students.

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This presentation will highlight the results of narrative research exploring the plight of Russian asylum seekers in Guam. Between 2012 and 2019, a visa waiver program resulted in thousands of Russian citizens visiting Guam. Most came as tourists, however, some traveled to Guam to flee persecution in Russia and seek asylum in the US. These asylum seekers were permitted to reside in Guam while awaiting the outcome of their asylum applications, but they were not allowed to travel to the mainland due to U.S. immigration policies. This study explores how Russian asylum seekers fought for their right to relocate to the US mainland through several strategic policy narratives addressing three primary themes: (a) the right to free movement, (b) deprivation and stolen lives, and (c) a call for help. Discussion focuses on the success of these narratives in achieving changes in the application of U.S. immigration policies.

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Political psychology has provided a wealth of knowledge about how opposing groups and political identities discursively construct and position each other. However, what if formerly united populist entities decided to face each other off in the political arena? In this study, we explore narratives of the Marcos and Duterte camps in the Philippines as they face off each other in a war of words. Using positioning theory as our optic, we ask the question – how do former populist allies position each other in a political conflict? Furthermore, we also explore how both camps position the Filipino citizenship, particularly in the context of constitutional change. To answer our research question, we used text mining to harvest and analyze four sets of data: 1) official speeches of President Bongbong Marcos and his allies, 2) official speeches of Vice President Sara Duterte and her allies, 3) Facebook posts and comments of supporters of President Marcos, and 4) Facebook posts and comments of supporters of Vice President Duterte. We then used word collocation to identify the associated meanings for the different social actors. Our preliminary results indicate that both parties position their oppositions as illegitimate leaders because of their association with drug abuse. Furthermore, international discourses also emerged, as President Marcos opted to shift the Philippines back to the USA’s sphere of influence, in contrast to the well-know close relations of Former President Duterte with China. These international discourses were used to position the opposing parties as puppets of corruption and manipulation by superpowers. Lastly, these discourses position the public-at-large to pick as side, especially in the debate for constitutional changes. Our preliminary findings show that populist breakups create narratives that cut across multiple layers of political identity – personal, social, and international. These stories provide insight on how populists navigate the political landscape.

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Typhoons strike the Philippine Area of Responsibility more than twenty times yearly. Two typhoons from the past years affected the East of the Capital, Marikina City. It is known as the Shoe capital. Urbanization and industrialization greatly affected the territory, making the city populous because of its proximity to business districts. The Landuse changes throughout her history made commercial industries and residential houses near the River Marikina. At first, these developments were favorable to the Marikeños because these are indicators of economic growth. However, nature's wrath affected the city; Typhoon Ondoy brought rains that flooded and devastated significant areas. The tragedy became a wake-up call to the government and the Marikeños, making them rehabilitate the river. More policies and programs were made for flood control projects and river development. Sadly, the COVID-19 pandemic has halted some projects for Marikina River. Also, during the pandemic's peak, Typhoon Ulysses affected the city just like Typhoon Ondoy, but now the Marikeños were more ready to face the floods but with the fear of getting sick of COVID-19. The Marikeño's resiliency and the effective governance of the leaders made Marikeños safe from the flood and COVID-19. 

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On the islands of Micronesia, subsistence activities have been practiced since the pre-contact period and they continue to remain an important activity today. Current estimates place about 80% of Micronesians as being reliant to some degree on subsistence and semi-subsistence livelihoods. Due to high costs of imported foods, there has been a growing interest in shifting subsistence activities in agro-forestry, agriculture and marine resources to cash production. While most Palauans are involved in wage and salary income activities, there have been a number of projects recently in Palau to both enhance agro-forestry, agriculture and marine resources production and develop the markets to distribute them. This paper combines sociological and economic impact assessments and extensive stakeholder input analyses of these small-scale agriculture, agro-forestry and marine resources production activities and addresses how they have been transformed into wage generating activities through local development projects and marketing endeavors.

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Despite many centuries of travel and migration throughout the Pacific, contemporary Indigenous Pacific Islanders in diaspora communities face unique struggles, such as longing for one’s homeland, acculturation pressures in one’s new home, and ongoing pressures to express one’s culture and create Indigenous connections and community away from one’s homeland (Bennett, 2021; Clifford, 2007; Gershon, 2007). Compounding these difficulties are intra-group tensions within Indigenous communities related to issues of cultural authenticity and the prospect of community-building across Indigenous homelands and diaspora settlements (Bailey, 2020; Whyman et al., 2022). Reviewing findings from a qualitative study on Indigenous activism in Guåhan, this presentation will examine experiences of Indigenous CHamoru diaspora members engaged in Guåhan-based decolonial efforts. Discussion will focus on implications of these findings for Indigenous communities and decolonial movements, highlighting areas for future research, particularly within Indigenous Pacific Islander communities.

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This panel features the research of philosophy majors who recently completed a seminar on the philosophy of J.G. Fichte. In his 'Addresses to the German Nation' (1808), Fichte argued that the only way for his auditors to resist Napoleon’s colonizing efforts was for them to imagine themselves anew as a German people. As the public discourse on political questions of sovereignty, independence, and self-determination, as well as broader questions of CHamoru identity, and economic and environmental justice intensify, this session focuses on the lessons can we learn from and philosophical issues with Fichte’s notion that culture (the stories we tell) is a creative, imaginative process that involves both individual and communal experiences?

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Growing up, my grandpa would sit in front of the house, turn the radio on to the local radio station, and tune into the cheldecheduch (traditional Palauan stories, often with an underlying moral lesson). He would sit for hours just listening to the stories, sometimes the stories were short, and sometimes long. When I asked my grandpa why he’d spend so much time listening to the radio and the stories, he told me that there was so much that we can learn with the power of words and our imagination and the indigenous knowledge we can unlock from these stories. He told me that these stories connect us to our culture and are living testimonies to who we are as Palauans and the beliefs and values we hold so dearly to our heart. It was from that point I realized the importance of our living heritage, our oral tradition, and our indigenous knowledge, and how it’s just as important as our tangible cultural heritage. These stories, this knowledge, should be passed down to younger generations, forever keeping alive the power of our indigenous heritage, reminding us of who we are, where we came from, and how we can use this knowledge in moving forward. In this paper, I will provide stories close to home, my mothers’ stories, the stories that highlight the beauty, strength, and innovation of Palauan culture, and how they are still relevant to us today.

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When talking of decolonization it is not uncommon to hear statements such as “Guam cannot support itself,” or “If Guam goes independent we will lose our AC.” These statements reflect a concept Mathew Lippman calls “Negative Charisma”. The instilled belief in someone by an authority figure that one is not capable of standing on one's own. These statements exemplify the common belief that without the U.S. Guam cannot function. Philosophy 4/With Children “P4/WC” seeks to fight negative charisma instilled within kids by going to schools and providing a space for them to genuinely open up and engage in philosophical discussion on topics like decolonization. In creating such a space for children we fight the notion that they are not competent thinkers. By fighting this negative charisma within students we help alleviate the negative charisma within our island and change stories of past dependence into future independence.

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Heightened times of insecurity in Guåhan - to include climate disasters, such as Typhoon Mawar, atop direct ongoing environmentally negligent actions by the US military - reveal the ways in which the US carceral system exists to control Indigenous populations for the purpose of continuing occupation and empire. This paper juxtaposes the carceral priorities of Guam's territorial government, an extension of the US settler state, via line item spending decisions with CHamoru priorities towards sovereignty and land protection. Taijeron intersects and analyzes the history of the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) and Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) in Guåhan, highlighting what has influenced local conceptions of violence, safety, and security, ultimately normalizing community segregation, ostracization, and criminalization of one another. Taijeron weaves together abolitionist, CHamoru, and Indigenous texts in order to (re)introduce and radically imagine different futures built on foundations of love, reciprocal care, and true, genuine safety.

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Manifestations of US militarism and coloniality that cross the lands and waters of the Mariana Islands archipelago construct a colonial imaginary that produces distinct political formations for the Islands and disrupt Indigenous Chamorro relationality, resistance, and understandings of place. The Marianas are the homelands of the Chamorro people, but through imperial impositions, the archipelago has been severed into two separate colonial political statuses. Current projects of US militarism benefit from these bordered divisions of Indigenous living environments and work to foreclose Chamorro relations. In my dissertation project, I trace how colonial regimes have divided the archipelago and the projects associated with them. My research asks: How does Chamorro political imagination contend with and refuse colonial efforts to contain us? What do instances of Chamorro resistance to borders and containment reveal about Chamorro political imagination?

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I Hinasson i Nina'huyong Matao: (A Theory of) Creating Matao, Creating Matao Creativity to Heal from Epistemicide. There has been an incredibly successful and powerful movement to create awareness about our indigenous history and restore our community’s pride in our identity, and culture. As we grow our understanding of the historical wounds/traumas that have been and continue to be inflicted upon our people, we are becoming increasingly aware of the impacts of surviving attempted epistemicide, the devaluing, silencing, and annihilation of our indigenous knowledge system. Our ancestral identity can propagate a jungle full of (k)new medicines we need today. The presentation intends to open up a conversation about how we can collectively address epistemicide and the impacts it has visited upon our people by re(k)newing our relationship to Matao identity.

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To date, over forty remains of indigenous Chamorros, along with cultural objects, have been housed in Berlin’s ethnology museum for over a century. These ancestral remains and objects were taken from the Marianas during the German colonial administration. Through a fellowship in Berlin, we are conducting provenance research, which interrogates how museum objects were collected, acquired and misappropriated - shedding light on the multi-layered paths they took to end up in the museum. This research strengthens relationships between shared histories, while also aiming to create diplomacy across cross-regional socio-cultural contexts. In this presentation, we will discuss our work within the Oceania collection archive, and our current efforts to facilitate the repatriation process to return these ancestral remains from Berlin, Germany to Saipan.

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This presentation examines the imbricated histories of two peace memorials located in the overlap of the US and the Japanese empires. Established before World War II by the local Japanese community, the Ohta Memorial in Davao, Philippines is now a pilgrimage site of Japanese tourists. Having survived anti-Filipino purging and Japanese gold hunting, it now bears a Philippine national historical marker, thus recognizing the Japanese community’s contribution to Davao’s development. Guam’s South Pacific Peace Memorial in Yigo, meanwhile, was established postwar as an initiative to reconcile the people of Guam and Japan. Its creation was led by Monsignor Oscar Calvo, with funding from the US government and solicitations from Japan. In 2014, the Guam Nikkei Association added a cenotaph of the Japanese pioneers, most of whom are patriarchs of their families. By raising local stories of peace memorials, the presentation augments the discourse on Japan’s dark tourism in US territories.

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An exploration of death ritual and its transformation in Micronesia and the Chamorro/CHamoru community.

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