{"id":229722,"date":"2016-06-10T06:08:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T20:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=229722"},"modified":"2016-06-10T06:08:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T20:08:17","slug":"traditional-healing-featured-humanities-half-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/traditional-healing-featured-humanities-half-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional healing featured on \u2018Your Humanities Half-Hour\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_229732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-229732\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Traditional-pix-Lizama.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-229732\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Traditional-pix-Lizama-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tricia A. Lizama\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-229732\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-229732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tricia A. Lizama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of Guam professor Dr. Tricia A. Lizama will be the featured guest on this Sunday\u2019s \u2018Your Humanities Half-Hour\u2019 radio program.<\/p>\n<p>Lizama will talk about her documentary film, \u00c5mot Para I Hinemlo\u2019ta, which explores Chamorro traditional medicine and healing in the Mariana Islands.  <\/p>\n<p>The film examines the current state of this ancient cultural practice through interviews with knowledgeable practitioners on Saipan, Rota, and Tinian including the similarities and differences among the islands. <\/p>\n<p>It also explores the challenges confronting the perpetuation of traditional healing and how it can be reinvigorated and perpetuated for the continuing benefit of the indigenous community. <\/p>\n<p>Lizama, an assistant professor in the School of Nursing and Social Work at UOG, is a descendant of a traditional healer and a mother of six who has spent the past five years researching the subject.  Her film project was supported by a Community Grant awarded by the Northern Marianas Humanities Council.<\/p>\n<p>She is also the chair of Inetnon Yo\u2019amte, an organization whose mission is to preserve, protect and perpetuate traditional Chamorro healing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour Humanities Half-Hour,\u201d which airs each Sunday from 2pm to 2:30pm on Power 99, is hosted by Catherine R. Perry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Guam professor Dr. Tricia A. Lizama will be the featured guest on this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":229732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11972,11348,7610,445],"class_list":["post-229722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-community-grant","tag-inetnon-yo","tag-social-work","tag-uog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}