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lunionsuite:

May is Haitian Heritage Month

A celebration of Haitian History, Culture, and Pride.

How are you showing your pride. Lunionsuite.com

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woknroll:

From The Ashes, 2013

For the past two months, I’ve been working on a photoessay about the Cambodian community of Lynn, MA. The Khmer people are a heavily undercovered demographic in the media. I myself was interested in pursuing this project because I knew nothing of the people and their culture. This is still a work in progress, but I thought that I’d like to show a few shots that I’ve accumulated thus far. You guys gave me incredibly kind words for my other photo essay on China, so I hope to hear what you think.

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awkward-p-i:

Maori - Indigenous people of New Zealand

Though some of their war tactics have been savage, the Maori are known as a spiritual people who incorporate beliefs and ritual into everyday life. Although some of the beliefs and traditions have been diluted due to outside influence over the last 150 to 200 years, many are still revered and commonly practiced.

Above are images from Kapa haka groups. Kapa Haka refers to a type of Maori Performing arts. The work of a kapa haka consists of the performance of a suite of songs and dances spanning several types of Maori music and dance, strung together into a coherent whole.

Music and dance types that normally appear are waiata tira (warm-up song), whakaeke (entrance song), waiata-a-ringa (action song), haka (challenge), pou or moteatea (old-style singing), poi (co-ordinated swinging of balls attached to cords), and whakawatea (closing song). They may also include titi torea (synchronised manipulation of thin sticks).

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panoptic:

Kolam (via Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today is OK)

Kolam is a rangoli traditionally composed of geometric lines and shapes, drawn around a grid pattern of dots. It is drawn by south Indian women with rice or chalk powder in front of their homes. 

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Model: Medina Swazo http://www.modelmayhem.com/2160898 San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, US

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hijabican:

Meet the Auburn Tigers, Australia’s first all Muslim Woman Football Team! Read their story on hijabican

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