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  2. Culture of Tonga - Wikipedia

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    Any description of Tongan culture that limits itself to what Tongans see as anga fakatonga would give a seriously distorted view of what people actually do, in Tonga, or in diaspora, because accommodations are so often made to anga fakapālangi. The following account tries to give both the idealized and the on-the-ground versions of Tongan culture.

  3. Tongan Kava Ceremony-Taumafa Kava - Wikipedia

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    Tongan kava ceremonies are a variety of ceremonies involving the kava plant that play an integral part of Tongan society and governance.They play a role in strengthening cultural values and principles, solidifying traditional ideals of duty and reciprocity, reaffirming societal structures, and entrenching the practice of pukepuke fonua (lit. "tightly holding onto the land"), a Tongan cultural ...

  4. Tongans - Wikipedia

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    Tongans or Tongan people are a Polynesian ethnic group native to Tonga, a Polynesian archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Tongans represent more than 98% of the inhabitants of Tonga. The rest are European (the majority are British ), mixed European, and other Pacific Islanders .

  5. Sālote Tupou III - Wikipedia

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    Tongan troops saw battle against the Japanese in the Solomon Islands campaign, including on Guadalcanal. [18] A key advisor of Sālote's, from 1924 to 1946, was Australian missionary Rodger Page, who played a key role in the reunification of the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga, of which she was a member.

  6. Tuʻi Tonga - Wikipedia

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    Though the title is no longer conferred, the ancient line remains unbroken and is represented by the noble title of Kalaniuvalu (conferred by King George Tupou I on his nephew, Prince Fatafehi Kalaniuvalu, the only son born to the last Tuʻi Tonga, Laufilitonga, by the King's sister, Princess Luseane Halaevalu Moheofo, who was Laufilitonga's ...

  7. Aleamotuʻa - Wikipedia

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    Aleamotuʻa (birth date unknown, died 18 November 1845) (addressed as Tupou when he became Tu'i Kanokupolu, then baptised as Siosaia (Josiah) Tupou and later known as Tupou 'i Fale Tui Papai, after the name of the area in which he was buried) was the 18th Tu'i Kanokupolu of Tonga, the third lineage of Tongan Kings with the political and military power who ruled in support of the Tu'i Tonga ...

  8. History of Tonga - Wikipedia

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    Tongan 1 paʻanga coin depicting Queen Salote Tupou III. Royal Tongan wedding, 1976. On 4 June 1970, protected state status ended under arrangements established prior to her death in 1965 by the third monarch, Queen Sālote. Tonga joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1970, and the United Nations in 1999. While exposed to colonial forces, Tonga ...

  9. Four Pillars - Wikipedia

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    Four Pillars of Nepal Bhasa, four people who campaign to revive the language and literature; Four Pillars of Transnistria, basis of the declaration of independence of a separatist region in Moldova in Eastern Europe; Four pillars, Vietnamese term for the four most important people in the government; The four pillars of green politics; The four ...