Pago Pago (; Samoan: ) is the capital of American Samoa.

* 1945 – Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, Samoan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Samoa

In 1983, five years after Mead had died, New Zealand anthropologist Derek Freeman, published Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth, in which he challenged Mead's major findings about sexuality in Samoan society.

The Methodist Church is the third largest denomination throughout the Samoan Islands, in both Samoa and American Samoa.

* 1979 – Samoa Joe, Samoan wrestler

The Germans in particular began to show great commercial interest in the Samoan Islands, especially on the island of ' Upolu where German firms monopolized copra and cocoa bean processing ; the United States laid its own claim and formed alliances with local native chieftains, most conspicuously on the islands of Tutuila and Manu ' a ( which were later formally annexed to the USA as American Samoa ).

The Second Samoan Civil War was a conflict that reached a head in 1898 when Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States were locked in dispute over who should have control over the Samoa Islands.

The Tripartite Convention of 1899 partitioned the Samoan Islands into two parts: the eastern island group became a territory of the United States ( the Tutuila Islands in 1900 and officially Manu ' a in 1904 ) and is today known as American Samoa ; the western islands, by far the greater landmass, became known as German Samoa after Britain vacated all claims to Samoa and accepted termination of German rights in Tonga and certain areas in the Solomon Islands and West Africa.

The Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa, is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

Samoa is recognized as the center of Polynesia, from where people migrated eastward to the Marquesas, southward to Niue and the Pukapuka islands of Rarotonga, and northward to the Tokelau and Tuvalu island groups ; in all these islands, oral tradition is maintained of ancestral voyages from the Samoan islands.

Samoan folklore tells of the arrival of two maidens from Fiji who brought the art of tatau, or tattoo, to Samoa, whence came the traditional Samoan malofie ( malofie is also known as pe ' a for men and as malu for women ).

The Second Samoan Civil War was a conflict that reached a head in 1898 when Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States were locked in dispute over who should have control over the Samoa Islands.

Samoan ( Gagana fa ' a Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa — IPA: ) is the language of the Samoan Islands, comprising the independent country of Samoa and the United States territory of American Samoa.

* American Samoa ( IOC country code ), an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa ( formerly known as Western Samoa )

In Samoa the constellation is called Sumu (" triggerfish ") because of its rhomboid shape, while α and β Centauri are called Luatagata ( Two Men ), just as they are in Tonga.

* former German Samoa ( New Zealand / United Kingdom ) 17 December 1920 a League of Nations mandate, renamed Western Samoa ( as opposed to American Samoa ), from 25 January 1947 a United Nations trust territory until its 1 January 1962 independence

Palmyra is one of the Northern Line Islands ( southeast of Kingman Reef and north of Kiribati Line Islands ), located almost due south of the Hawaiian Islands, roughly halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa.

The new Fa ’ alupega of German Samoa, which in its first line recognises the Kaiser ( Kaisa ), apparently required Malietoa Tanunafili and Tupua Tamasese to be sworn on oath to become advisors to the governing council:

The Tripartite Convention gave control of the islands west of 171 degrees west longitude to Germany, ( later known as Western Samoa ), containing Upolu and Savaii ( the current Samoa ) and other adjoining islands.

* Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner ( 1884 ), an eText available from Project Gutenberg

In the late 1960s, Potlatch Forests, Inc. ( a US company ), upgraded the harbour and airport at Asau on the northern coast of Savai ' i and established a timber operation, Samoa Forest Products, for harvesting tropical hardwoods.

* Treaty of Berlin ( 1889 ), which recognized the independence of Samoa

* Treaty of Berlin ( 1899 ), which resulted in the partition of Samoa between Germany and the United States

FIPS PUB 5-1 ( published on June 15, 1970 and superseded by FIPS PUB 5-2 on May 28, 1987 ) stated that certain numeric codes " are reserved for possible future use in identifying American Samoa ( 03 ), Canal Zone ( 07 ), Guam ( 14 ), Puerto Rico ( 43 ), and Virgin Islands ( 52 )", but these codes were omitted from FIPS PUB 5-2 without comment.

In September 2008, Samoa became the 46th country to officially recognise the independence of Kosovo.

* 1929-American Samoa officially becomes a U. S. territory

In July 1997, the Samoa Constitution was amended to change the country's name to Samoa, and officially the Independent State of Samoa.

In 1929, the U. S. Congress passed legislation that officially recognized the eastern islands as, American Samoa.

The symbol WS $ is still used for the tālā, representing the country's previous name Western Samoa, used up to 1997, when the word Western was officially removed and the country became known as just Samoa.

America Samoa has been an unincorporated territory of the United States since 1900, and Samoa, officially known as the Independent State of Samoa, is an independent nation that gained its independence from New Zealand in 1962.

The Independent State of Samoa and the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) established official diplomatic relations in 1976.

* Davidson, J. W. Samoa mo Samoa for the Samoans, The Emergence of the Independent State of Western Samoa.

* Davidson, J. W. Samoa mo Samoa for the Samoans, The Emergence of the Independent State of Western Samoa.

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For the Independent State of Samoa, New Zealandic and British influences has led to the popularity of rugby union, soccer, netball and volleyball.

Due to colonialism, the home islands are politically and geographically divided between the country of Samoa, official name Independent State of Samoa ( formerly Western Samoa until country name change in 1997 ); and American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States.

Banknotes of the Territory of Western Samoa, now the Independent State of Samoa, were issued by the Authority of the New Zealand Government, which governed the islands up until 1962.

Samoan Americans are American citizens of Samoan origin, including those who migrated from the Independent State of Samoa and America Samoa to the United States.

* Head of State Malietoa Tanumafili II ( Samoa )

American Samoa has a State of the Territory address given by the governor.

* Outline of Samoa-Independent State of Samoa

Pacific Islands leaders, all members of the Pacific Islands Forum, at a meeting in Samoa with former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ( center ), 26 July, 2008

State bees originally occurred for the fifty states, five U. S. territories ( Guam, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands ), Washington D. C., and the Department of Defense Dependent Schools ( DoDDS ).