Palauan men praise women and state with pride, "Women are strong; men are weak." But men do the planning and make the decisions. This is no more strange to a Palauan than the fact that many children whose biological parents are still alive are adopted many times, and that material advantage should accrue from these transactions to several kinsmen of the child.

A compendium of 8 oral history tales from the islands around Palau. The stories were produced during the 9th Festival of Pacific Arts held in Palau, July, 2004.