“I Sengsong San Diego”: The Chamoru Cultural Festival and the Formation of a Chamoru Diasporic Community

This essay addresses contemporary migrations of Chamorus tied to the history US military presence in Micronesia and ways Indigenous culture identity are negotiated through Chamorro Cultural Festival (CCF) that has been held annually San Diego, California since 2009. The analysis explores how diasporic maintain close transpacific connections Mariana Islands while also establishing Chamoru communities abroad CCF. festival simultaneously enacts identities based both mobility rootedness is a large-scale expression create express collective identities.