Fanachu Podcast

Fanachu Podcast Fanachu is indigenous and independent media from Guam, Marianas and the Pacific. Fanachu!

is a decolonial current events and academic critique show based in Guåhan. We provide a platform for progressive thinkers and ideologies in the Pacific; and strive for indigenous narratives in the media space.

Our people revered our mothers, our grandmothers, our sisters and the matriarchs of our clans long before Hallmark made ...
10/05/2026

Our people revered our mothers, our grandmothers, our sisters and the matriarchs of our clans long before Hallmark made Mother’s Day cards.

From Fu’una, to the Maga’håga’ to the techa, to the nåna and Famalao’an of today.

But since this is one way that we have come to express this love and respect today, “Magof Ha’ånen i Mannåna.”

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2026 is the 10 year anniversary of Fanachu and next week’s episode is the 400th episode of the podcast. Biba!Here is an ...
09/05/2026

2026 is the 10 year anniversary of Fanachu and next week’s episode is the 400th episode of the podcast. Biba!

Here is an image of the first episode of Fanachu back in November 2016. Fanachu was started by Manny Cruz as the podcast for Independent Guåhan, next week’s 400th episode will feature members of the group reflecting on a decade of both the podcast and advocacy around decolonization education.

A common sight post Typhoon Karen in Guam in 1962. We are planning a Fanachu that will feature typhoon stories from diff...
08/05/2026

A common sight post Typhoon Karen in Guam in 1962.

We are planning a Fanachu that will feature typhoon stories from different generations. Whether you went through Karen, Pamela, Omar, Russ, Paka, Ponsgona, Chata’an, Yutu or Mawar or other, your stories will be welcome. If you would be interested in joining for that episode message us to let us know.

May is Museum Month around the world and Fanachu has a dozen episodes over the years that have featured the work of cura...
07/05/2026

May is Museum Month around the world and Fanachu has a dozen episodes over the years that have featured the work of curators and other museum folks in the Marianas and those working away from the islands but with with ancestral ties back to the region. They focus on exhibits, networks and solidarity, collection practices and also repatriation/rematriation efforts.

Here are some examples of episodes in this series over the past few years.

06/05/2026

May is museum month and in honor of this global commemoration of the important role that museums can play in our lives, this week's Fanachu episode will feature as guest Nicole Delisle Dueñas, the Archeological Collections Lab Manager at the Guam Cultural Repository (GCR). Nicole has been working both within museums and in the community on rematriation projects, to bring cultural treasures home to Guam from museum abroad and also connecting Chamorus to artifacts and ancestral remains that are cared for in the GCR.

Tomorrow’s episode of Fanachu will feature as guest Nicole Delisle Duenas, the Archeological Collections Lab Manager at ...
05/05/2026

Tomorrow’s episode of Fanachu will feature as guest Nicole Delisle Duenas, the Archeological Collections Lab Manager at the Guam Cultural Repository, who will be talking about rematriation projects that she has been working on, including as seen in this image, the Hornbostel Collection return from Hawai’i. She’ll also discuss how she works to bring more indigenous models to collections and curation work within museums. This episode will go live tomorrow at 12 noon ChST on FB, Instagram and YouTube.

04/05/2026

Michael Mendiola Garcia, has been learning Chamoru for the past few years and joined the Prugråman Sinipok, a two week Chamoru language immersion program for adults in 2024 as a participant. He has since become an organizer with the program helping others to level up their Chamoru learning. In this clip from Fanachu Season 8, Episode 314, he talked about how learning Chamoru helped unlock memories for his family about their lives back in the Marianas, especially his mother.

Fanachu is independent and indigenous media that focuses on telling Chamoru stories. Support our efforts and get t-shirts, stickers and more by signing up as a Patron on Patreon: patreon.com/fanachu

This episode first premiered on August 7, 2024.

May is museum month and in honor of this global commemoration of the important role that museums can play in our lives, ...
02/05/2026

May is museum month and in honor of this global commemoration of the important role that museums can play in our lives, next week’s Fanachu episode will feature as guest Nicole Delisle Dueñas, the Archeological Collections Lab Manager at the Guam Cultural Repository (GCR). Nicole has been working both within museums and in the community on rematriation projects, to bring cultural treasures home to Guam from museum abroad and also connecting Chamorus to artifacts and ancestral remains that are cared for in the GCR. Learn more about the work she has been doing when her episode goes live next Wednesday (5/6) at 12 noon ChST.

Photo credit in flyer by Kie Susuico.

Fanachu helps to document the history of Chamoru protest and resistance. The group Nasion Chamoru was officially formed ...
01/05/2026

Fanachu helps to document the history of Chamoru protest and resistance.

The group Nasion Chamoru was officially formed in 1991 and throughout its existence has taken on numerous causes related to self-determination, land return and decolonization and engaged in a variety of direct action protests. This is an image from one of their protests in the 1990s demanding that the US military repatriate latte stones and artifacts to the Chamoru people.

Support our efforts by signing up as a Patron on Patreon at www.patreon.com/fanachu

You can see this image and dozens of others taken by Tun Juan Benavente in the exhibit “Yanggen Ti Hita, Pues Håyi?” and learn more about the history of Nasion Chamoru and other groups that have fought for Chamoru rights and decolonization on Guam. The exhibit opens tomorrow May 2 with a reception from 5-8 pm.

2026 is the 10 year anniversary of Fanachu and we are just a few episodes away from our 400th episodes. Here is a throwb...
30/04/2026

2026 is the 10 year anniversary of Fanachu and we are just a few episodes away from our 400th episodes.

Here is a throwback to one of the earliest episodes of Fanachu, way back in January 2017, hosted by Fanachu Founder Manny Cruz, speaking with guests poet and educator Nichole Quintanilla and activist Jesse James Chargualaf Jr.

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29/04/2026

Recovery in the CNMI, FSM and Guam after the devastation left by Super Typhoon Sinlaku may take months or even years. Even before the typhoon had left the region relief and mutual aid networks had formed both in the Marianas and in the diaspora to provide much needed items an also monetary support. For next this episode of Fanachu representatives from different groups that have been organizing different donation drives and awareness campaigns will join to talk about their relief efforts.

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