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Journal Article
Cruel Realities: The American Conquest of Guam
2006
Overview
Of all the military operations the United States launched in 1898, the one in Guam bears the clearest imprint of the naval visionary Alfred Thayer Mahan, whose book, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, revolutionized American strategic thinking. At their direction, according to one text, the Chamorros were \"herded together like animals\" and \"forced to give up their ancestor worship, warfare, bachelor houses, and most of their indigenous ceremonies, including chanting and dancing, and were compelled to replace them with Spanish Catholic rituals.\" A movement for native rights began to emerge in the 1970s, suggesting that for some people on the island, economic and political progress does not outweigh the lack of self-government and loss of cultural identity.
