Yams

Hello, I would like to speak about cultural events in New Caledonia, precisely the yam party celebrated every year in my island, in Lifou. The yam party is a very importan tevent for the population. Lifou is like all the villages of New Caledonia, it's composed of many districts, and districts are composed of tribes. The tribes are controlled by little chief and the districts are controlled by the big chief. During the ceremony, the family of each clan brings their yams harvested for the head tribe and the head tribe brings theirs to the big chief of the district. I think that the yam party is a very very important event for us, young kanak, because this party isn't like as the other partyl(marriage, mourning...). This party allows us to know our identity, our social statut. It's very important to know that itsn't anyone who can go back to the chief village, there are persons who are authorized, otherwise they will be cursed. Rodrigue, LDKom