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.

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 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.

In 1855 J. C. Godeffroy & Sohn expanded its trading business into the Samoan Islands, which were then known as the Navigator Islands.

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 Islands

* 2009 – An 8. 0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami.

During the 1860s, planters in Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, and the Samoan Islands, in need of labourers, encouraged a long-term indentured labour trade called " blackbirding ".

** The U. S. Senate accepts the British-German treaty of 1899, in which the United Kingdom renounced its claims to the American Samoa portion of the Samoan Islands.

He was also known for having paved the way for settlement of the Samoan question with Great Britain and Germany, and for upholding the special interest of the United States in the Hawaiian Islands.

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.

The pattern of settlement that is believed to have occurred is that the Polynesians spread out from the Samoan Islands into the Tuvaluan atolls, with Tuvalu providing a stepping stone to migration into the Polynesian outlier communities in Melanesia and Micronesia.

Samoan mythology is a variant of a more general Polynesian mythology in the Samoa Islands.

The island is long, in area, and is the second largest in geographic area as well as the most populated of the Samoan Islands.

Due to the presence of the Camp Pendleton U. S. Marine Corps Base in the neighboring city of Oceanside, Vista has one of the largest mainland U. S. communities of Pacific Islanders primarily Micronesian peoples ( i. e. Guam and Northern Mariana Islands ) and Samoan Americans ; and even 2. 5 percent of Vista's population are American Indians mostly originated from the Southwest and Western interior.

The table below demonstrates this with the words for ' sky ', ' north wind ', ' woman ', ' house ' and ' parent ' in a representative selection of languages: Tongan ; Niuean ; Samoan ; Sikaiana ; Takuu ; Rapanui language ; Tahitian ; Cook Islands Māori ( Rarotongan ); Māori ; North Marquesan ; South Marquesan ; Hawaiian and Mangarevan.

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.

* Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan Head of State — educated at Wesley College

Apart from the 1-3 extinctions in more recent times, another 1-4 species have gone extinct as a consequence of early human settlement: Hodgen's Waterhen ( Gallinula hodgenorum ) of New Zealand — which belongs in subgenus Tribonyx — and a species close to the Samoan Moorhen from Buka, Solomon Islands, which is almost certainly distinct from the Makira Moorhen as the latter cannot fly.

It may have originated in a dialectal variation as it is similar to the common words for shark in a number of Polynesian languages — makō in the Kāi Tahu Māori dialect, mangō in other Māori dialects, " mago " in Samoan, ma ' o in Tahitian, and mano in Hawaiian.

Ofu and Olosega are parts of a volcanic doublet in the Manu ‘ a Group of the Samoan Islands — part of American Samoa.

Tattoo designs have changed to include freehand symbols such as the kava bowl representing hospitality ; the characterization of the Samoan house or fale signifying kinship ; emblems of nature — shells, fish, birds, waves, centipedes ; and the traditional geometric lines and angles of different lengths and sizes.

The division of the Samoan Islands as a result of the Tripartite Convention of 1899 assigned the western islands to Germany ( independent Samoa today ) and Eastern Samoa to the United States ( American Samoa today ).

Her reign is notable in Samoan history for its absence of warfare and many Samoans today feel pride in tracing their ancestry to Queen Salamasina.

In 1899 after the Second Samoan Civil War the Samoan Islands were divided by the three involved powers.

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 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.

By contrasting the ease and freedom enjoyed by Samoan teenagers, Mead called into question claims that the stress and rebelliousness that characterize American adolescence is natural and inevitable.

In 1855 J. C. Godeffroy & Sohn expanded its trading business into the Pacific following negotiations by August Unshelm, Godeffroy ’ s agent in Valparaiso, He sailed out to the Samoan Islands, which were then known as the Navigator Islands.

He skillfully grafted Samoan institutions into the new system of colonial government by the acceptance of native customs.

The nations came into conflict in the Second Samoan Civil War and the nations resolved their issues, establishing American Samoa as per the Treaty of Berlin, 1899.

In the late 1800s, rivalry between the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom resulted in the Tripartite Convention ( 1899 ) that formally partitioned the Samoan archipelago into a German colony ( German Samoa ) and a United States territory ( American Samoa ).

This was resolved on September 9, 1993, when the National Park Service entered into a 50-year lease for the park land from the Samoan village councils.

Surrounded by a variety of tropical fauna, Samoan mythology is rich with stories of animals incorporated into their culture, traditional beliefs and way of life.

In the Samoan islands the shirt style has been introduced into the masculine formal attire known as the " safari set ".

Glasgow came into this season off the back of a record equaling 5th place the previous season, and having bolstered their squad over the summer with big names such as Pumas ' fullback Bernardo Stortoni and Samoan winger Lome Fa ' atau, but struggled in the early rounds due to missing key players to the RWC in France.

An unstable political climate, created by rival Samoan factions and German presence, erupted into open hostility during the month.

Ever since the formalisation of Christianity in Samoa and the inclusion of the Christian taeao or mornings into the general recitation of ' mornings ' in Samoan speeches, the set protocol has been that the first presentations are always presented to the religious representatives present at the event.

Hunt was born in St Helens Auckland, into a small, Samoan family.

The Samoan tattoo master dips his cutting tools into black ink made from the soot of burnt candlenut shells, and then punctures designs into the skin.

Johnson married into the prolific Samoan wrestling family, which included the Anoa ' i family, by marrying " High Chief " Peter Maivia's adopted daughter Ata Maivia.

** End of the Trail / Papoose to Go / Renegade Drop ( Samoan drop, sometimes catching an opponent thrown into the ropes )

The Tripartite Convention of 1899 resulted in the act that formally partitioned the Samoan archipelago into a German colony and a United States territory and was the culmination of years of civil war among Samoan factions and of rivalry between the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom at the brink of war.