It’s been a whirlwind journey for Valerie West, a 22-year-old newly certified EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) from New York, USA, who now represents the Ifugao region in the Miss Universe ...

Here we consider the Tuwali-Ifugao people of the Cordillera Central (Luzon, Philippines), who resisted Spanish colonial subjugation from the 16th to the mid-nineteenth century, in part through the ...