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...

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...

What started as a school project has become one Chamorro artist’s way of rediscovering an indigenous art—coconut carving. Adrian Jose Castro is one of the Chamorro artists featured at the Indigenous Affairs Office’s mini-cultural expo last Saturday at the IAO office in Garapa...