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Overall, I contend that American colonialism in Samoa created a unique and fraught legal reality emphasizing the preservation of indigenous cultural and land rights. More specifically, The Samoan Cause makes four main interventions. First, I trace the formation of the Sāmoan territory of the United States as both a discursive and physical event.
Colonialism Arrives -- The Germans gained the upper hand over today's independent Samoa by staging a coup in 1887, backed up (unofficially) by German gunboats. They governed through Malietoa, one of Samoa's four paramount chiefs. One of his rivals, Mataafa, lost a bloody rebellion in 1888 and was exiled. Continuing unrest turned into a major ...
Jun 1, 2018 · The hour-long documentary covers 3000 years of Samoa’s history.Major events highlighted in the film include the partition of Western Samoa in the nineteenth ...
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May 22, 2024 · The UK abandoned claims in Samoa and received former German territory in the Solomon Islands. New Zealand occupied Samoa during World War I but was accused of negligence and opposed by many Samoans, particularly an organized political movement called the Mau (“Strongly Held View”) that advocated for independence. During the 1918-1919 ...
Lemanu Peleti Mauga . Governor of American Samoa. Office of the Governor. Executive Office Building. Third Floor, Utulei. Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799. 1 (684) 633-4116. 1 (684) 633-2269 Fax. Website.
Chromograph map of Samoa - George Cram 1896. The Samoan Islands were first settled some 3,500 years ago as part of the Austronesian expansion.Both Samoa's early history and its more recent history are strongly connected to the histories of Tonga and Fiji, nearby islands with which Samoa has long had genealogical links as well as shared cultural traditions.
The Second Samoan Civil War. When Laupepa died, the second Samoan Civil War broke out in 1898. Germany, the US and UK were again battling for control of the Samoan islands. The archipelago would eventually be divided between the Germans and Americans in 1899 at the Tripartite Convention. These became known as Western Samoan and American Samoa.
