{"id":351364,"date":"2021-09-08T06:05:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T20:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=351364"},"modified":"2021-09-08T06:05:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T20:05:42","slug":"september-is-chamorro-and-carolinian-cultural-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/september-is-chamorro-and-carolinian-cultural-heritage-month\/","title":{"rendered":"September is Chamorro and Carolinian Cultural Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_351365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-351365\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/heritage-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-351365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/heritage-pix-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-351365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Ralph DLG Torres gives brief remarks before proclaiming September 2021 as Chamorro and Carolinian Cultural Heritage Month in a proclamation signing yesterday at the Carolinian Utt in Garapan. Also pictured are Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios, second from left, and Carolinian Affairs Office executive assistant John Tagabuel, rightmost. (JOSHUA SANTOS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>September is Chamorro and Carolinian Cultural Heritage Month, and the Carolinian Affairs Office and the Indigenous Affairs Office will be holding many events throughout the month to showcase the CNMI\u2019s unique cultures and traditions. There will be multiple school outreaches, concerts, an \u201cIsland Cuisine Night,\u201d and a memorial Mass on Sept. 23 commemorating the 35th anniversary of the 13 fishermen who were lost at sea on Sept. 23, 1986. Gov. Ralph DLG Torres and Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios made the commemoration official during a proclamation signing yesterday at the Carolinian Utt in Garapan.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Torres and Palacios, notable guests yesterday included House Speaker Edmund S. Villagomez, Reps. Denita K. Yangetmai and Vicente C. Camacho, Northern Marianas Humanities Council executive director Leo Pangelinan, and 500 Sails co-founder Emma Perez.<\/p>\n<p>The event featured remarks from Torres, Palacios, and leads from the CAO and IAO. Remarks were delivered in Chamorro, Carolinian, and English. CAO executive assistant John Tagabuel and Palacios briefly spoke in English yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Tagabuel said that \u201clanguage starts from home,\u201d and made a call to action for the CNMI\u2019s Carolinian community fluent in the language to go out and apply to be Carolinian language teachers. Tagabuel noted that there are only four public school teachers teaching Carolinian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur language is all we have. It is our identity. It\u2019s what keeps us together as a whole. If we don\u2019t know where we\u2019re from, then we can\u2019t move forward, we can\u2019t move far. &#8230;If you want to speak Chamorro or Carolinian, let\u2019s do it, and let\u2019s be proud,\u201d said Tagabuel.<\/p>\n<p>Palacios looked back on the multiple periods of colonization in the CNMI\u2019s history, and lauded the present-day efforts of the CAO, IAO, and NMHC \u201cfor trying their best to perpetuate our culture.\u201d As multiracial communities continue to be on the rise, Palacios added that it is important now that the CNMI\u2019s Chamorro and Carolinian communities see the value of being Chamorro and Carolinian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to awaken ourselves and value the uniqueness of being a Chamorro or Refaluwasch [Carolinian]. We need to put value into who we are as a people,\u201d said Palacios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September is Chamorro and Carolinian Cultural Heritage Month, and the Carolinian Affairs Office and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":351365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351364","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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}