The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $100,062 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) to the Guam Humanities Council, also known as Humanities Guahan. The grant funding will support scholarly, humanities-based activities to document, preserve, and share Chamoru/Chamorro chant practices, which are an important form of cultural heritage and knowledge-sharing throughout the Marianas and greater Micronesia region. This initiative, titled "Knowing Our History Through Chant: A Marianas Cultural Memory Project," will be of particular benefit to the Chamoru communities of Guam and the Chamorro communities of the Northern Mariana Islands in low-lying atoll areas that were threatened by Typhoon Mawar and ongoing climate change challenges. The grant supports the council's efforts to celebrate and protect the region's unique cultural traditions through public programming, subawards, and humanities-based activities tailored to local community needs.
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