Through interviews with master navigators and their students, Dr. Michael Lujan Bevacqua discusses how, beginning in the 1980s, CHamorus began to relearn the ancient seafaring skills lost here to colonization — and how the revival of these traditions goes hand-in-hand with the CHamoru Renaissance and decolonization movement. 

This Part I of a two-part episode. Part II will be released in late October / early November 2021. 

Our anchor for this episode is Dr. Michael Lujan Bevacqua. He's an historian and teacher of CHamoru, the indigenous language of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, and serves as curator of the Guam Museum.

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Interviewees:  
- Sandra Iseke Okada 
- Dr. Larry Cunningham 
- Pwo Rob Limtiaco 
- Pwo Larry Raigetal  

Music: 
Memoirs Pasifika intro/outro song by Ryan Shook

Team:  
Producer / Host - Tony Azios 
Audio Engineer - Ryan Shook 
Intern - Annie Fay Camacho

Episode 6  — Revival of Traditional Seafaring in the Marianas (Part I of II)

This is Part II of Episode 6, "Revival of Traditional Seafaring in the Marianas." Part I was released in late October 2021.

Through interviews with master navigators and their students, Dr. Michael Lujan Bevacqua discusses how, beginning in the 1980s, CHamorus began to relearn the ancient seafaring skills lost here to colonization — and how the revival of these traditions goes hand-in-hand with the Chamoru Renaissance and decolonization movement. 

Our anchor for this episode is Dr. Michael Lujan Bevacqua. He's an historian and teacher of CHamoru, the indigenous language of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, and serves as curator of the Guam Museum.

Subscribe to the podcast and follow us on social media. Visit our website (MemoirsPasifika.com) to explore archival materials related to each episode. 

Interviewees:
- Sandra Iseke Okada 
-Dr. Larry Cunningham 
-Pwo Rob Limtiaco
-Pwo Larry Raigetal
- Vanessa Toves

Music:
* Memoirs Pasifika intro/outro song - Ryan Shook
* Puluwat Hymn - Spirit of Micronesia

Team: 
Producer / Host - Tony Azios
Audio Engineer - Ryan Shook
Intern - Annie Fay Camacho

Episode 6  — Revival of Traditional Seafaring in the Marianas (Part II of II)

This is the final episode of Season 1, so we decided to make it a bit different than the others by highlighting portions of interviews from past episodes that didn’t make the final cut, but that we still want to share with you.

Sometimes these clips provide more context or a cool anecdote for a topic we delved into in a prior episode. Or, in other cases, they offer greater insight into the personal development of the interviewee, or their emotional state at the time of the events in question. And sometimes they speak at length about a different historical event or topic altogether than what the interview was officially about, but it still covers something we think our audience – you! — might find interesting.

Our anchor for this episode is Tony Azios, the producer / director of Memoirs Pasifika, but you’ll still hear questions being asked by several of our previous anchors who conducted most of those interviews. Tony is also a reporter, documentary filmmaker, and instructor at the University of Guam's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.

Subscribe to the podcast and follow us on social media. Visit our website (MemoirsPasifika.com) to explore archival materials related to each episode

Interviewees:  
- Sen. Mary Camacho Torres
- Dr. Laura Marie Torres Souder
- Vicky Ritter
- Gordon Ritter
- Lt. Governor Pedro Agulto Tenorio
- Lt. Governor Joshua Tenorio
- Pwo Larry Raigetal

Music: 
Memoirs Pasifika intro/outro song - Ryan Shook

Team: 
Producer / Host - Tony Azios
Audio Engineer - Ryan Shook
Intern - Annie Fay Camacho

Episode 7 — Season Finale (Retrospective)

Welcome to Memoirs Pasifika, a podcast exploring events, movements, and people in modern Micronesian history.

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Episode 6 — Revival of Traditional Seafaring in the Marianas (Part II of II)

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