The Guam Community College proudly presents a series of videos in Fino' Håya, the indigenous language of the island of Guam, in an effort to revive, promote, and preserve this unique bond to our ancestors. Produced over a period of three years (2010-2012), these DVDs highlight the pre-contact (before European or Western infusion) way of life -- the food, names of plants, fish, illnesses, cures, traditional practices and the culture of the indigenous people of the land.

Fino' Håya is one of an estimated 1,200 languages in the Austronesian language family that originated out of Taiwan more than 5,000 years ago. The first people of Guam are believed to have arrived in our archipelago about 4,000 years ago. They spoke a language that was replete with reduplication, affixation, morphophonemic, and linguistic characteristics that are just as strong today as they were in ancient times.

This project was made possible in part through a grant from the Administration for Native Americans.