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    The Chamorro people (/tʃɑːˈmɔːroʊ, tʃə-/; also CHamoru) are the Indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, politically divided between the United States...
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    Chamorro (English: /tʃəˈmɒroʊ/; Chamorro: Finuʼ Chamorro (CNMI), Finoʼ CHamoru (Guam)) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 58,000 people, numbering...
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  • classified as Micronesian include the Carolinians (Northern Mariana Islands), Chamorros (Guam & Northern Mariana Islands), Chuukese, Mortlockese, Namonuito, Paafang...
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  • Look up chamorro or Chamorro in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chamorro may refer to: Chamorro people, the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands in...
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    Chamorro people had no apparent knowledge of people outside of their island group. A Portuguese account of the same voyage suggests that the Chamorro...
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    The Chamorro Time Zone, formerly the Guam Time Zone, is a United States time zone which observes standard time ten hours ahead of Coordinated Universal...
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    native Chamorros. The Refaluwasch there are Durums mixt have the same lineages with Remathau on the outer islands of Yap. Some of the people on the islands...
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    Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro (Spanish pronunciation: [bjoˈleta tʃaˈmoro]; 18 October 1929) is a Nicaraguan former politician who served as President...
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    with a population of 44,943 in 2010. The Indigenous people of Guam are known as the Chamorro people, and are the largest ethnic group in Guam. This group...
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    Mariana Islands (category Chamorro people)
    indigenous inhabitants are the Chamorro people. Archaeologists in 2013 reported findings which indicated that the people who first settled the Marianas...
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    ancient Chamorro people, they are found throughout most of the Mariana Islands. In modern times, the latte stone is seen as a sign of Chamorro identity...
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    Guam (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
    Guam (/ˈɡwɑːm/ GWAHM; Chamorro: Guåhan [ˈɡʷɑhɑn]) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western...
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    Brittany Bell (category Chamorro people)
    Arizona in Miss USA 2010. Bell was born and raised in Barrigada, Guam, to a Chamorro mother and a father of Native American, West Indian and African American...
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    Sonny Sandoval (category Chamorro people)
    nu metal band P.O.D. Sandoval was born in San Diego, California. to a Chamorro-Hawaiian mother and a Mexican-Italian father. He grew up in the Otay Mesa...
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    In Guam, the Chamorro people believe in tales of taotaomona, duendes, and other spirits. Taotaomona are spirits of the ancient Chamorro that act as guardians...
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    Pia Mia (category American people of Chamorro descent)
    on Guam, an unincorporated territory of the United States. She is of Chamorro, Italian, Dutch, and Hungarian descent. She is the daughter of Angela Terlaje...
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    Chamorro people of Guam, in which the three options would be statehood, independence, and free association. However, this referendum for the Chamorro...
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    neurodegenerative disease of unknown origin that occurs exclusively in the Chamorro people of the island of Guam that has characteristics of both amyotrophic...
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    Craig Santos Perez (category Chamorro people)
    essayist, university professor, American publisher (USA) from the Chamorro people, born in Mongmong-Toto-Maite, Guam Island. His poetry has received...
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  • uncertain etiology endemic to the Chamorro people of the island of Guam in Micronesia. Lytigo and bodig are Chamorro language words for two different manifestations...
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    Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands (category Flags of indigenous peoples)
    representing the United States, a gray latte stone representing the Chamorro people, and a multi-colored mwarmwar (floral wreath) representing the Carolinians...
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    Ferdinand Magellan (category 15th-century Portuguese people)
    met by native Chamorro people who came aboard the ships and took items such as rigging, knives, and a ship's boat. The Chamorro people may have thought...
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    Lou Leon Guerrero (category Chamorro people)
    Lourdes Aflague "Lou" Leon Guerrero (born November 8, 1950) is an American politician and former nurse who has served as the 9th governor of Guam since...
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    Flag of Guam (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
    The shape of the emblem recalls the slingshot stones used by ancient Chamorro people. The landform in the background depicts the Two Lovers Point cliff...
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    Zach Banner (category Chamorro people)
    legally adopted him the following year. His mother, Vanessa, is Chamorro (the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands), was born in Fort Lewis, Washington...
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    century. They have also acquired great cultural significance to the Chamorro people and are considered the unofficial national animal of Guam. The term...
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  • with the early arrival around 2000 BC of Austronesian people known today as the Chamorro Peoples. The Chamorus then developed a "pre-contact" society,...
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    Northern Mariana Islands (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
    Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI; Chamorro: Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas; Carolinian: Commonwealth Téél Falúw...
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    Saipan (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
    Marianas. After failing to reunify with Guam, which was also home to the Chamorro people, the islands joined the United States as the Commonwealth of the Northern...
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    when tacking. It is most famously used for the sakman ships of the Chamorro people of the Northern Marianas, which were known as the "flying proas" for...
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