Chamorros have lacked self-determination for nearly five hundred years

Evidence

Chamorros, whose history on Guam and the rest of the Mariana Islands dates to between 1500 and 2000 BCE, have not enjoyed the right to self-determination in nearly five hundred years. The Spanish arrived in 1521, claiming Guam and the Marianas as a Spanish possession four decades later. Like the indigenous peoples of the Americas, Chamorros were decimated by disease and violence. Spain ruled Guam as a colony for more than two hundred years until the U.S. Navy seized the island and its small military garrison as a prize of the 1898 war. The United States did not, however, occupy the other Spanish-controlled islands in Guam’s Mariana Islands chain. Instead, Spain sold them to Germany, dividing the Chamorros between two occupying powers. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 236

Chamorros, whose history on Guam and the rest of the Mariana Islands dates to between 1500 and 2000 BCE, have not enjoyed the right to self-determination in nearly five hundred years. The Spanish arrived in 1521, claiming Guam and the Marianas as a Spanish possession four decades later. Like the indigenous peoples of the Americas, Chamorros were decimated by disease and violence. Spain ruled Guam as a colony for more than two hundred years until the U.S. Navy seized the island and its small military garrison as a prize of the 1898 war. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 236

Categorization

• SHARE: Good for someone following US territorial or indigenous sovereignty issues — the 500-year continuity of foreign rule is stark.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 236