1. Palau Travel Information | Lonely Planet Destination Guide Culture. The people of Belau, as the islanders call their homeland, may appearto be among the most Westernized of all Micronesians in their casual American http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/pacific/palau/culture.htm

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Home About the Film Lesson Plans E-cards ... Purchase Women lead Palau, and its Cultural Arts Palau came into contact with Spanish explorers in 1710. Spain's influence over the region was later challenged by Germany, which eventually purchased the Caroline islands from Spain in 1899. At the start of World War I Japan took over administration of the islands, expanding infrastructure, copra and phosphate production initiated by the Germans. The United States took over after World War II and Palau became part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI) administered by the US. The Spanish, German, Japanese and American periods all marked a transformation of social and political practices and particularly roles and relationships based on age and gender. Queen of Palau: Palau is traditionally a matrilineal society in which land, rights, obligations and descent are traced through the women in a community. Proper posture and movement is crucial and much preparation goes into creating the elaborate and colorful costumes. Palau is traditionally a matrilineal society in which land, rights, obligations and descent are traced through the women in a community. Women's groups established the social networks, enhanced prestige of kin groups and took part in public decision-making. In many Micronesian islands, however, men still retained public power and carried important leadership titles. In Palau, however, senior women in a chiefly clan would select the male paramount chief. According to Palauan activist Isabella Sumang, "In our Palau culture, it is women who have the responsibility for preserving the land for generations still to come." There are two paramount chiefdoms based on matrilineal descent but today there is mixture of this matrilineal power with modern patriarchy especially in the arenas of Christianity, economic and political leadership. Nevertheless women's interest groups in Palau are strong and actively participate in the economic, social and political landscape of the islands.

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Culture history art Although in the past few decades, Palau has adapted to an international economy, Palauans for the most part strongly identify with their traditional culture. Several of the traditional ceremonies, such as the omersurch birth ceremony, ocheraol first-house ceremony and the kemeldiil funeral services are widely practiced and the codes and beliefs adopted by Palauan forefathers are still revered today. Probably the most noticeable aspect of Palauan culture is the people's connection with the sea. Traditionally, it was the duty of the family to go to sea to harvest fish and battle against enemy villages. As the sea was the source of their livelihood, men developed a close relationship with the waters of Palau, becoming versant in the currents and the phases of the moon and the behavior of the fish they sought to put on the table. Women generally stayed on land or along the shallow reefs surrounding the islands, rather than combat the open ocean, providing foundation for the family. Their days were largely spent tending to their homes, family and fields where they grew taro. Palauan villages were, and still are, organized around 10 clans reckoned matrilineally. A council of chiefs from the 10 ranking clans governed the village, and a parallel council of their female counterparts held a significant advisory role in the division and control of land and money.

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PALAU CULTURE Palau's social organization is highly complex and competitive. The race for money, prestige and power, the main thrust of which used to be for political power within a clan or village, was the focus from which most events occurred, such as sports competitions and wars. Palauan villages were, and still are, organized around 10 clans reckoned matrilineal. A council of chiefs from the 10 ranking clans governed the village, and a parallel council of their female counterparts held a significant advisory role in the control and division of land and money. Men and women had strictly defined roles to play in the continuity of the village. The sea was the domain of men who braved its fury to harvest the fish necessary to sustain the village and wage battle. Inter-village wars were common, so men spent a lot of time in the men's meeting houses mastering techniques of canoe building and refining their skills with weapons. Women, on the other hand, held sway in the home. They cultivated vegetables and harvested shellfish and sea cucumbers from the shallow reefs. Until the late 1800s Palauans were tattooed, with more ornate designs on women of high clan. Men wore their hair in tight buns and rubak, the important chiefs, wore bracelets made from the vertebrae of dugongs.

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published by WISE News Communique on June 24, 1994 Palau: Nuclear-Free charter under threat While the United States presses North Korea to stop developing nuclear weapons, it is contradicting these very principles in Palau, where it is trying to get the government to accept a Compact of Free Association that would annul the Pacific nation's nuclear-free charter. (414.4102) WISE Amsterdam - Fourteen years ago, Palau - a group of islands some 800 kilometers south-east of the Philippines - passed the world's first national constitution out-lawing toxic, chemical, biological and radioactive weapons and material on its soil. Since then, Washington has been pressuring Palau to hold one referendum after another to amend that constitution, which had been approved by 92 percent of the nation's 14,000 people. "Over the years, as the principle of self-determination has been twisted and deformed into a grotesque travesty of democratic process. The Palauan electorate has moved from elation, pride, hope and empowerment to disillusionment, cynicism and apathy," the International Committee on Palauan Self-Determination said in a pamphlet prepared before the last referendum in November 1993. In an apparent victory for Washington, Palauan President Kuniwo Nakamura said in May he had agreed with U.S. officials to implement the compact with the United States by October 1. But a group of Palauan women told the United Nations Trustee-ship Council that the November 1993 referendum authorizing him to proceed with the compact was illegal and that there were still environmental matters to be addressed. Palau is the last of the United Nations' original 11 Trust Territories.

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