Lepblo pot Suruhåna/ Suruhåno Siha yan Åmot Siga gi I Commonwealth I Sankattan na Islan Mariånas

Afañelo, Manákume’ yan Manátungo,

Please remember that the Sunday Variety Column can now be downloaded at www.gotguam.com; click on the Sunday Column tab

The English translation of the title of this Sunday's Column is: "Directory of Traditional Plants in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands" a book published by the Inetnon Åmot Natibu / Ammwelil Safeyal Faluwasch in Saipan.  Saipan too is doing a lot for the preservation of the CHamoru language and I thought you would appreciate reading about their efforts.

Migai Na Si Yu’os Ma’åsi

"Life is a crude inventor; fiction will only be convincing if it is more artful than life." Carmel Bird

Rlene Santos Steffy

MARC Research Associate

Ethnographer/Oral Historian

University of Guam

210 Archbishop Flores St.

Hagåtña, Guam 96910