Small arrows, birds and stars adorn the tops of the soldier’s hands and fingers. Etched into her skin from the wrists up to her nail beds, the markings are no ordinary tattoos, but symbols of ...

A proud sister-in-law captured the moment her brother’s bride performed a traditional Samoan dance — called the taualuga — for her new family, and now the footage is going viral. Lyrah Siarrah (@lyrah ...

Hi! I'm Morgan, and I'm a 30-year-old Samoan woman. Morgan Sloss / BuzzFeed Even if you don't know much about Samoan culture, you've likely seen or heard about our tattoos. Fun fact: the English word ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

Josephine Lealaitafea performs Taualuga on the first night of the Luau event. The Taualuga is a traditional Samoan dance performed at celebrations and weddings. (Jaycee Lundell) BYU’s annual Lu’au ...

Watch these students teach traditional Samoan dance to their teacher for her wedding Two of Abbey Tufue-Wood's students teach her a traditional Samoan dance to perform for her Samoan husband at their ...

King Charles got into the island vibes in the Pacific as he started his first full day in Samoa! Charles, 75, wore a white bush jacket trimmed with embroidery by the Samoan School of Fine Art as he ...

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has shared how "emotional" it was performing a "sacred" Samoan dance with his family. The 53-year-old wrestler-turned-actor has shared a video of the group - including his ...

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Three bills which fundamentally change Samoa’s constitution are nearing their final reading in the country’s parliament. Critics, including the Samoa Law Society and members of the judiciary, assert ...

No matter that the temperatures are in the 80s; with 98 percent of American Samoa’s population being Christian, Christmas is a spectacular time of year. In two weeks of programming, everyone in ...