But, as any Guamanian or
Chamorro would say, it's never about the size.
In 1669, a year after they arrived, San Vitores reported that there were no distilled spirits in Guam and that the
Chamorros drank only rice water with shredded coconut, despite the shipwrecked Filipinos who had lived there for 23 years.
He suggested that the "strong sense of shame carried by
Chamorros" is connected to an infinite sense of reciprocity with others.
of the Spanish colonial rule was the conversion of the
Chamorros to
Once troops pushed inland, the Americans set up a permanent camp, known as Camp Susupe, where the friendly
Chamorros and Carolinians were divided from the Koreans and Japanese.
Guam is a spiritual place where
Chamorros believe in a vigorous spiritual presence melded with Catholic dogma taught by the earliest Spanish missionaries.
invasion of Tinian in 1944, most
Chamorros had abandoned their homeland.
Although the sample size for
Chamorros and Filipinos is smaller than the other sample populations, the data support that these loci are highly polymorphic in these groups as well.
Schmookler's 'parable of the tribes' as an organizing theme for the fate of the
Chamorros. In summarizing this thesis, Rogers suggests, 'A central irony of the struggles of the
Chamorro people against Europeans is that, in order to mount a successful defense, the islanders had to become like the outsiders' (40).
Spencer's group suspected the palm seeds partly because the
Chamorros used them extensively as food (rice was scarce) and as a topical medicine during the Japanese occupation of the islands between 1941 and 1944, but the seeds later fell out of favor.