The country’s international image is that of a tropical paradise inhabited by tourist-friendly flower … Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Samoa lies approximately 80 miles (130 km) west of All the country’s rivers are shallow, are limited in extent, and radiate directly from the central highlands to the coast. In July 1997 the Constitution was amended to change the country’s name from Western Samoa to Samoa.
Many scholars believe that by about 500 ce Samoa had become the point of origin for voyagers who settled much of eastern Polynesia. Colonial history of Samoa is attributed to the invasion waged by Germany and New Zealand. Embassy Apia Public Diplomacy Small Grants Scheme 2020The next U.S. Visa Interview Week for Apia Samoa has been postponed.Weather Alert – U.S. Embassy Samoa (September 5, 2018)Weather Alert – U.S. Embassy Samoa (September 5, 2018)The fifth Young Pacific Leaders Conference in Honolulu – January 16-18, 2018Joint Statement of President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un at the Singapore SummitU.S.
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This change had been under discussion for some time, but was delayed by awareness of the sensitivities of American Samoa which, in the end, offered no opposition.In November 1998 Tofilau resigned as Prime Minister; he became Senior Minister without Portfolio and his deputy and Finance Minister, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, succeeded him.
European influence. At a plebiscite organised by the UN and held in 1961, the nation voted for independence. The eastern islands became territories of the United States in 1904 and today are known as American Samoa.
European navigators, who began to visit Samoa in 1722, were at first welcomed … Samoan mythology and legends say they descended from the gods and heavens to inhabit these islands. During this ERA the SEAT OF POWER of all Samoa was the Manu’a Islands and the head was TUI MANU’A MA SAMOA … By far the most important agents of change in Samoa were the western missionaries, converting the people from belief in Gods for the sun, earth, heavens and sea to the one God.Dutchman, Jacob Roggeveen was the first European to sight the islands in 1722, but it wasn’t until 1830 when the Reverend John Williams arrived in In 1899 after years of civil war, the islands of the Samoan archipelago were divided – the Germans taking the islands to the west and the Americans taking the islands to the east, now known as American Samoa.After the outbreak of the First World War, New Zealand captured Western Samoa from the small German company stationed on the islands, and following the end of the war took administrative control on behalf of the United Nations from 1918 until independence on 1st January 1962. The Samoan Islands were first settled some 3,500 years ago as part of the Austronesian expansion.Samoa's early and more current history is strongly connected with the histories of Tonga and Fiji, which are in the same region, and with whom it shares historical, genealogical, and cultural traditions.. European exploration first reached the islands in the early 18th century. Page 6 – Stepping up the Mau campaign In January 1928 Mau policeman, dressed in a uniform of a purple lavalava with a white stripe, began enforcing a sā - ban - on European stores in Apia.
An epidemic of influenza broke out in 1918; the Samoans at the time had no immunity to the disease and 20 per cent of the population died in a few weeks.Samoans resisted New Zealand’s rule, with non-violent action (1926–36), culminating in the Mau uprisings.
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Western Samoa became the first Pacific nation to gain Independence.From 1962 to 1997, the nation was known as Western Samoa, until it dropped the title ‘Western’ from its name to become the Independent State of Samoa. In turn, the opposition led to the horrible exile in Saipan which resulted to many deaths. There were – and still are – four paramount titles relating to four ‘aiga (extended families equivalent to royal dynasties), in what is now Samoa: Malietoa, Tupua Tamasese, Mata’afa and Tu’imaleali’ifano.
During the 1870s a civil dispute broke out between two of these families, dividing Samoa.
European contact in Samoa didn’t begin until the 18th century. Western Samoa was the first Pacific Island country to gain its independence.In July 1997 the Constitution was amended to change the country’s name from Western Samoa to Samoa. Precipitation varies from more than 100 inches (2,540 mm) on the northern and western coasts to 300 inches (7,620 mm) inland.
The western islands became known as Western Samoa (now just Samoa), passing from German control to New Zealand in 1914. Germans peacefully held the protectorate until the rise of Mau movement in 1908. The Dutch and the French made contact with Samoa well before English missionaries began arriving to the islands in the 1830s. In March 1999 he died.In January 2000, a memorandum of understanding was signed with American Samoa for mutual assistance on trade, health, education, agriculture and policing.