Kristin Oberiano

Jan 14, 2025 | publicbooks.org | Charlotte Rosen |Kristin Oberiano

When I first encountered Alvita Akiboh’s research project several years ago, I was pleasantly surprised by a photo she presented of my hometown branch of the United States Postal Service. To many folks familiar with Post Office iconography, it looks like any other post office in any of the 50 US states. Yet I recognized that this office is thousands of miles away in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in the village of Barrigada (Barigåda) in the US territory of Guam (Guåhan).