Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture 2016. Photo: Facebook / FestPac 2016 Documentary Photographers / Manny Crisostomo
Chamorro culture continues to be preserved through the sharing of language and history at Guam's Museum, but the battle to be heard and have a voice as a U.S territory remains an ongoing struggle.
The Chamorro people are the Indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, politically divided between Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands in Micronesia.
Chamorro cultural historian and Guam's Museum curator Dr Michael Bevacqua says Chamorro people in Guam have a complex relationship with the United States but consider themselves as Pacific islanders
RNZ Pacific's Eleisha Foon spoke with Dr Bevacqua about the culture's rich history in the Pacific and its relationship with the US.
