Daughters of the Island: CHamoru Women Organizers of Guåhan and Other Writings Chamoru culture This work aims to articulate

This work aims to articulate the mindscape of an indigenous CHamoru consciousness through ec(h)o literature: literature that interprets signs in the natural environment as echoes from ancestors

while tackling modern-day issues including the importance of preserving the CHamoru language and culture

and versions of the legends in the CHamoru language by Maria Ana Tenorio Rivera

the Augustinian Recollects (1789-1908)

Daughters of the Island: CHamoru Women Organizers of Guåhan and Other Writings Chamoru culture This work aims to articulateDaughters is a critical study of the historical roles and contributions of CHamoru women in Guhan and their complex negotiations of the shifting cultural and political landscapes of kostumbren CHamoru under Spanish, American, and Japanese colonialisms. Writing from the authoritative vantage point as hgan hga blood daughter, and based on extensive oral history and archival work, Souder weaves a story of CHamoru womens resilience against western