They each have such beauty and brains so I tried to model that in my life,” Valerie said. She added that her mom, who hails from Kiangan, Ifugao, inspires her to pursue her beauty pageant dreams.

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 ...