The Indigenous Office Affairs wants to preserve the Chamorro language by offering more upcoming programs this year to help the youth understand the Chamorro language, in hopes of reviving the almost extinct language. “A lot of modern things that are starting to take over, versus...

The Indigenous Affairs Office recently acquired an interpreter machine to make the Chamorro and Carolinian languages more accessible to people who do not know how to speak it. The machine, which is a first for the island, will be used in events to facilitate real-time...

There has been a renewed global attention and interest in the use of traditional medicine in the last decades, according to a World Health Organization report, and the CNMI could be at the center of this, with its local practice being revived on the island. Toward this end, the...

In a bid to honor healers who practiced and taught the traditional healing arts in the CNMI, the Indigenous Affairs Office, with the Inetnun Åmut yan Kutturan Natibu/Mwiischil Safey me Kkoor Aramasal Faluw, gave posthumous recognition last Tuesday to 19 traditional healers in the...