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- Title
Navy Blues: US Naval Rule on Guam And The Rough Road to Assimilation, 1898-1941.
- Authors
Perez Hattori, Anne
- Abstract
Before turning control of Guam over to the Department of Interior in 1950, the US Navy published the US Navy Report on Guam, 1899-1950, summarizing its achievements as the island's administrators since 1898. In it, the Chief of Naval Operations depicted Chamorros as a physically, intellectually, and culturally backwards people whose lives focused on achieving nothing more than the bare minimum requirements of survival. To deal with such a forlorn people, the Navy enunciated for itself a fourfold agenda "to rehabilitate, to organize, to administer, and to make productive" the Chamorros. The colonial project, therefore, sought not simply to rule over the Island's government, but more broadly to transform the bodies and minds of its natives. This paper interrogates naval efforts to implement its goals, examining the rich cache of naval records to underscore the tangle of political, economic, and cultural issues that faced Guam's 20th century colonizers.
- Subjects
GUAM; CHAMORRO (Micronesian people); HISTORY of the United States Navy; GUAM politics &; government; INDIGENOUS peoples; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Pacific Asia Inquiry, 2014, Vol 5, Issue 1, p13
- ISSN
2377-0929
- Publication type
Article