Like all I-Kiribati women, when Linda Uan had her first ... When Aunt Taroro says she may eat, Terootia is given dried foods, such as pandanus and coconut. When Terootia is permitted to drink ...

Holding fast to tradition matters for many I-Kiribati. Mwairin Timon was making coconut sennit when I met her, sitting on an old pandanus mat outside her shanty at the edge of the lagoon ...