Pohnpeian Story: Sakier, The Amazing Bird

Jay and I are getting settled back into daily life again, after about 4-5 weeks of being away. We put our Saturday practice groups on pause while we were traveling and are excited to be starting them again this week. In honor of FestPac 2024, we will be reading some stories from other Pacific islands throughout the rest of this summer. This story comes from Pohnpei or Ponape, and was translated into Chamorro by Dolores Marciano. We found this in a PDF of Chamorro language stories from the Pacific Languages Collection at UH Manoa, which you can access online! In this post the Chamorro text, a Chamorro audio narration by Jay Che’le, and an English translation are included. Happy reading!

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