Guåhan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps of Micronesia xiii
4. Preface xxi
5. Acknowledgments xxv
6. Introduction 1
7. Garlanding 5
8. Origins
9. I Tinituhon/The Beginning 9
10. Fu’una and Pontan 14
11. Time 18
12. Uchelel a Tekoi Chuab, Kotel Belau 19
13. Chuab—Belau 21
14. Merry Ancestors 23
15. Nei Mwanganibuka/ The Legendary Fisherwoman 25
16. To Swim with Eels 27
17. I Have Seen Sirena Out at Sea/ Gua na hu li’i’ si Sirena 29
18. Halom Tano’ 31
19. Nareau’s Return 33
20. Ode to the Fisherman’s Hat/ Te bwara te taraai 35
21. Return to the Sea 36
22. Tinaitayon Hinanåo Såkman Saina/Prayer for Safe Journey 40
23. Gutos i Finihu I Hinacha Hinanåo/Rite of First Voyage of the Sakman Saina 42
24. Quipuha’s Sin 44
25. Silent Warriors 46
26. Fino’ Finakpo’/Final Words 48
27. Manotohge Hit/We Stand 49
28. Resistance
29. Forefathers 53
30. Lbolb/Wolf 55
31. The Lord’s Prayer 56
32. What Am I 57
33. Excerpt from “Freedom” 60
34. To Belau 63
35. Belau Be Brave 64
36. Nauru in 2001 66
37. Tampering with Bible Translation in Yap 68
38. “Local” 79
39. Inside Out 81
40. My Mother’s Bamboo Bracelets A Handful of Lessons on Saving the World 84
41. The Mango Trees Already Know 88
42. Juan Malo & the Tip of America’s Spear 91
43. Juan Malo & Where America’s Day Begins 92
44. The Storm 93
45. Dance 95
46. More than Just a Blue Passport 98
47. My Island Is One Big American Footnote 102
48. The Revolution Will Not Be Haolified 105
49. Remembering
50. From The Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia, 1975 111
51. History Project 112
52. Thieves 116
53. Guåhan 117
54. From I Dos Amantes 125
55. From An Ocean in a Cup 128
56. An Ode to Our Unsung Heroes 133
57. From An Island in Agony 135
58. A New Invasion 142
59. From Mariquita: A Tragedy of Guam 144
60. From Cheffla gi i Manglo 151
61. From Nasarinu 154
62. Nauru Women Picket a Government-Sponsored Flight to London for the Stage Play Leonardo da Vinci, May 27, 1993 159
63. Egade 162
64. The First Woman in Parliament Ruby’s Story 164
65. Ti Mamaigo Si Yu’us— God Never Sleeps 166
66. Identities
67. Sun Burns 175
68. Crash 177
69. Juan Malo & Da Real Chamoru 179
70. My Blood 180
71. Téétéén Kúen 181
72. The Micronesian Question 183
73. Micro-Eye-Class 188
74. Kaki se (a coconut) 189
75. Echukeison in Maikronisia 190
76. Bomb the School System 192
77. “Unfit” 195
78. English Only Law Impact 198
79. Language with an Attitude Palauan Identity with an English Accent 200
80. Culture for Sale 210
81. In Search of What Matters . . . 212
82. Kul 216
83. FestPac neni 217
84. Kao siña hao fumino’ Chamoru? 218
85. Memory Revising, As My Diasporic Queer Self 221
86. Grass 224
87. English Major 226
88. Voyages
89. Raiarecharmoracherchar 229
90. What Grandma Sinsilmam Knew 232
91. Flying to Makiki Street 234
92. Tomorrow 236
93. The Monkey Gate 238
94. Moon Sickness, Green Cards, and the Taro Patch 240
95. Bare-Breasted Woman 251
96. Homes of Micronesia 253
97. The Cry of Oceania 256
98. We Are Human at the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time 263
99. Imbibing Native DNA at a Pacific Science Meeting in Australia 264
100. A Journey of CHamoru Self-Discovery 266
101. The Five Stages of Being Micronesian in Guam 270
102. Family
103. My Urohs 275
104. The Tree 277
105. Mechikung 280
106. Rubak 282
107. Red Shoes 284
108. Sky Cathedral 286
109. Ngedeloch 288
110. Food Thoughts 290
111. The Boys 292
112. Auntie Lola’s Champion Chalakiles 293
113. What urohs say 299
114. Beloved Sumay 301
115. Fino’ Gualåffon/Moonlight Talk 303
116. Portrait of Grandmother Eating Mango 304
117. Hineksa Anonymous 308
118. I am from . . . 311
119. A New Micronesia
120. Pohnpei Outer Space 315
121. Development 317
122. Map Gazing 320
123. Look at It This Way 322
124. I could be Miss Guam Tourism 324
125. Well, we’re all eating chå’guan now 325
126. My life is a poetry reading 328
127. Hiking 330
128. The floating world 332
129. I Will Drink the Rain (For Toma) 334
130. Flip Flops 335
131. Black Coral 337
132. On the Occasion of the Quarter Century 340
133. Archery 341
134. Tidepools 342
135. Afterword 345
136. About the Contributors 347