SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — For more than three decades, Aunty Kiki Sotoa Solia has dedicated her life to Taupou Samoa, sharing the culture of Polynesia and ensuring that longstanding traditions are carried on ...
Dwayne Johnson is reminding us just how powerful family traditions can be. The Moana star recently shared a video of himself performing the Samoan Taualuga—a “sacred” dance—with his mother, Ata ...
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — An East Valley Polynesian dance school is sharing the culture and music of the Pacific with Arizona. Tamāli’i Polynesian Entertainment opened in 2015 in Mesa by Dion and Gabrielle ...
Santa Ana’s Mater Dei High School choir celebrated Samoan Culture during their Fall concert. In a video shared online by one of the performers’ mothers, Sisa Grey Uiagalelei, students can be seen ...
Welcome to Group Project, a series on the many ways young people are building and engaging with community. From queer resistance to finding new hobbies to forging alternate paths, working together is ...
James and Annamaria Unutoa demonstrate a traditional Samoan dance at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Pasefika Roots Institute of Language and Cultural Arts on August 4, 2025. Pastor Samuel Fiu ...
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Sosefina’s roots go deep in Long Beach, where she was born and raised. Before graduating from St. Anthony High School, she ...
Hannah Lei (left) and Jirleen Nyel cheer for their team during a Samoan cricket game in Anchorage on July 5, 2025. Jirleen Nyel and her friends hollered encouragement from their chairs nestled in a ...
"Special moments like this mean the world to me, to honor our family, our culture and always so good coming back home to Hawaii," he wrote on Instagram The actor spent part of his childhood in Hawaii ...