* 1937 – Peter Maivia, Samoan wrestler ( d. 1982 )

The Fa ' amatai and the Fono take place at all levels of the Samoan body politic, from the family, to the village, to the region, to national matters.

The ' click language ' Nǁng lacks, and colloquial Samoan lacks both alveolars, and.

* 1900 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.

In all, he brought about more than 50 treaties, including the settlement of the Samoan dispute, as a result of which the United States secured Tutuila, with a harbor in the Pacific ; a definitive Alaskan boundary treaty in 1903 ; the negotiation of reciprocity treaties with Argentina, France, Germany, Cuba, and the British West Indies ; the negotiation of new treaties with Spain ; and the negotiation of a treaty with Denmark for the cession of the Danish West India Islands.

Samoan girl, c. 1896

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.

In 1999 Freeman published another book, The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research, including previously unavailable material.

Orans concludes that Freeman's basic criticisms, that Mead was duped by ceremonial virgin Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' amu ( who later swore to Freeman that she had played a joke on Mead ) were false for several reasons: first, Mead was well aware of the forms and frequency of Samoan joking ; second, she provided a careful account of the sexual restrictions on ceremonial virgins that correspond's to Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' auma ' a's account to Freeman, and third, that Mead's notes make clear that she had reached her conclusions about Samoan sexuality before meeting Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' amu.

** Tongan and Samoan.

Its usage is not universal in Samoan, but recent academic publications and advanced study textbooks promote its use.

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

Samoa (; Samoan: Sāmoa, ), officially the Independent State of Samoa ( Samoan: Malo Sa ' oloto Tuto ' atasi o Sāmoa ), formerly known as Western Samoa, is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

The Samoan origins are currently being reassessed due to new scientific evidence and carbon dating findings from 2003 and onwards.

Interior of Samoan house, Apia, Urville 1842.

Jacob Roggeveen ( 1659 – 1729 ), a Dutchman, was the first known European to sight the Samoan islands in 1722.

There followed an eight-year civil war, where each of the three powers supplied arms, training, and in some cases, combat troops to the warring Samoan parties.

The Samoan crisis came to a critical juncture in March 1889 when all three colonial contenders sent warships into Apia harbour, and a larger-scale war seemed imminent, until a massive storm on 15 March 1889 damaged or destroyed the warships, ending the military conflict.

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 Siege of Apia occurred during the Second Samoan Civil War in March 1899 at Apia.

Samoan forces loyal to Prince Tanu were besieged by a larger force of Samoan rebels loyal to Mata ' afa Iosefo.

The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 58. 6 % non-Hispanic white, 10. 8 % black or African American, 0. 5 % Native American, 0. 5 % Filipino, 0. 6 % other Asian, 0. 2 % Samoan, 0. 2 % non-Hispanics reporting some other race, 2. 8 % reporting two or more races and 28. 8 % Hispanic or Latino.

The Samoan Independent Seventh-day Adventist Church, which is an independent church from the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Conference church, has decided to continue worshiping on Saturday, after a 6 day week at the end of 2011.

Languages spoken in the area included Arabic ( 4 %), Samoan ( 2. 8 %), Hindi ( 2. 6 %), Bengali ( 2 %) and Spanish ( 1. 8 %).

On 6 July 1994, he was appointed an honorary Companion of the Order of Australia, for " eminent service to Australian / Western Samoan relations and to South Pacific multilateral relations ".

Inala is a cultural suburb according to 2011 census the most common ancestries in Inala were Australian 19. 3 %, Vietnamese 18. 5 %, English 17. 7 %, Irish 4. 2 % and Samoan 3. 6 %.

** The Midnight Express ( Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane ) ( with Jim Cornette ) defeated The Samoan Swat Team ( Samu and Fatu ) ( with Paul E. Dangerously ) ( 6: 00 )

* The Road Warriors ( Hawk and Animal ) defeated The Samoan Swat Team ( Samu and Fatu ) ( 6: 46 )

Fanene Leifi Pita Maivia ( April 6, 1937 – June 12, 1982 ) was a Samoan professional wrestler better known as " High Chief " Peter Maivia.

Generally 12 cm to 17 cm ( 5 to 6 ½ in ) in length ( although many brands, such as Samoan Cutlery, have been known to extend out up to 9 ½ inches ) it features a very narrow blade.

Nearly 6, 000 people of Samoan ancestry reside in Pierce County, Washington, making up 0. 7 % of the county's population.

While the majority of the population spoke English only at home, there were substantial numbers speaking Arabic ( 14. 5 %), Vietnamese ( 7. 3 ), Hindi ( 2. 6 %), Spanish ( 2. 3 %) and Samoan ( 1. 7 %).

Samoan 0 0. 0 %

These committees formed the basic element of an alternative system of governance, and the tendency of Samoans to unite under traditional leadership meant that by the mid-to late 1920s, around 85 % of the Samoan population was involved in open resistance.

Approximately 30 % of the plants and one bird species ( the Samoan Starling ) are endemic to the archipelago.

* Samoan 8 %

Other languages spoken at home included Vietnamese 24. 5 %, Samoan 4. 0 %, Spanish 1. 3 %, Arabic 1. 3 % and Tongan 1. 0 %.

In 2006, 21. 4 % spoke Vietnamese, 4. 1 % spoke Arabic, 2. 5 % spoke Samoan and 51. 8 % spoke only English with various other minority groups speaking other languages.

In Northern California, the Bayview-Hunters Point and Potrero Hill neighborhoods in San Francisco are home to sizeable Samoan communities, as well as in Daly City, East Palo Alto, and Hayward, which all are at least 0. 5 % Samoan.

In the Midwest, the largest Samoan community is in Independence, Missouri, where around 900 Samoan people reside ( 0. 8 % of the city ).

Linguists classify it within the Eastern Polynesian languages as being closely related to Cook Islands Māori, Tuamotuan, Rapanui and Tahitian ; somewhat less closely to Hawaiian and Marquesan ; and more distantly to the languages of Western Polynesia, including Samoan, Tokelauan, Niuean and Tongan.

It is more or less distantly related to all other Polynesian languages, such as Hawaiian, Maori, Tahitian, Samoan, and Tongan, and most closely related to the languages spoken on the Polynesian Outliers in Micronesia and Northern and Central Melanesia.

The contemporary classification of the Polynesian languages began with certain observations by Andrew Pawley in 1966 based on shared innovations in phonology, vocabulary and grammar showing that the East Polynesian languages were more closely related to Samoan than they were to Tongan, calling Tongan and its nearby relative Niuean " Tongic " and Samoan and all other Polynesian languages of the study " Nuclear Polynesian ".

An Eastern Polynesian language, Te Reo Māori is closely related to Tahitian and Cook Islands Māori ; slightly less closely to Hawaiian and Marquesan ; and more distantly to the languages of Western Polynesia, including Samoan, Niuean and Tongan.

* Tokelauan language closely belonging to the group of Samoic languages, it is the same, derived from Samoan.

* Tuvaluan language belonging to the group of Samoic languages, and is closely related to Samoan.

The Pukapukan language is considered by scholars as a distinct language closely related with Samoan and the language spoken on the three atolls of Tokelau.