CHamoru Self-Determination: Development, democracy and decolonization in Guam amid a military build-up

In May 2020, the US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by the government of Guam to a lower court decision that it would violate the U.S. Constitution to hold a non-binding referendum of the indigenous population of Guam, the CHamoru people, on their views of the future status of Guam. The lower courts had found that such a referendum would be discriminatory of the rights of the non-indigenous...