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.

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 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.

As the movement grew, leadership came under the country's chiefly elite, the customary matai leaders entrenched in Samoan tradition and fa ' a Samoa.

The groundswell of support among Samoans for the Mau came from the leadership of Samoan matai, the heads of families in Samoa's traditional socio-political structure.

" Wawau " and "' Upolu " point to actual places in the Society Islands, Samoa, and / or Tonga, although Hawaiian scholars and royal commentators consistently claim Paao came from either Samoa or Tahiti, or even that he was a Tahitian resident of Samoan origin.

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.

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

The Siege of Apia, or the Battle of Apia, occurred during the Second Samoan Civil War in March 1899 at Apia.

* March 15 – A German naval force shells a village in Samoa, destroying some American property ; three American warships enter the Samoan harbor and prepare to fire on the three German warships found there.

Tofilau Eti Alesana, AC, born Aualamalefalelima Alesana, ( 4 June 1924 – 19 March 1999 ) was a Samoan politician.

In March 1899 Ensign Monaghan, onboard Philadelphia, was sent to the troubled Samoan Islands.

Mark Hunt ( born 23 March 1974 ) is a New Zealand kickboxer and mixed martial artist of Samoan descent, currently living in Sydney, Australia.

: The Samoan islands of Upolu and Savaii and the small islands of Apolima and Manono, west of 171 degrees west longitude, were declared a protectorate of the German Empire and became known as German Samoa, with flag raising on 1 March 1900 and appointment of Wilhelm Solf as governor.

From May 1887 until her loss in the March 1889 Samoan hurricane, Captain Farquhar commanded the steam frigate.

After defeating Sonny Siaki on the March 25 episode of TNA Impact !, Figueroa earned the respect of his Samoan opponent, and the duo formed a tag-team.

Trevor Leota ( born 8 March 1975 ) is a Samoan rugby league player for Bridgend Blue Bulls in Wales.

* Samoan Islands from 1889 to 1899 were a rare tripartite condominium under joint protectorate of Germany, Britain and the USA.

The Berlin Conference of 1889 was held to discuss the political future of the islands but by 1899, American dissatisfaction of not having complete control led to a division of the Samoan islands, with Tutuila and Aunu ' u forming American Samoa.

In the Treaty of Berlin of 1889 thus a joint protectorate or condominium was declared, with a European / American chief justice, a municipal council for Apia, and with the " free right of the natives to elect their Chief or King " as the signatory to the act, thus the treaty professed to recognize a Samoan independent government.

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 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 plan was first announced by the Samoan government in September 2007 and was confirmed on 18 April 2008 when Samoa's parliament passed the Road Transport Reform Act 2008.

However, when a dissident Samoan matai ( chief ) exceeded the limits of his considerable tolerance, Solf stepped in assertively, pronouncing that “... there was only one government in Samoa ,” and it was him.

The Samoan Islands — today divided into Samoa and American Samoa — were west of the date line until 1892, when King Malietoa Laupepa was persuaded by American traders to adopt the American date, being three hours behind California, to replace the former Asian date, being four hours ahead of Japan.

Some languages without a are Hawaiian ( outside of Ni ‘ ihau ; Hawaiian uses a voiceless velar stop when adopting loanwords with ), colloquial Samoan ( which also lacks an ), and Nǁng of South Africa.

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.

Solf included Samoan traditions in his government programs, but never hesitated to step in assertively, including banishment from Samoa in severe cases, when his position as the Kaiser's deputy was challenged.

At Judgment Day, Umaga defeated Punk, and on the May 22 episode of SmackDown, he spoke in English for the first time under the Umaga gimmick, when he challenged Punk to a Samoan strap match.

The storyline ended on the July 10, 2006, episode of Raw, when Viscera " accidentally " performed a Samoan drop on Garcia while confronting Haas.

Glass noodles were introduced to Samoa by Cantonese agricultural workers in the early 1900s where they became known as " lialia ," a Samoan word meaning " to twirl ," after the method of twirling the noodles around chopsticks when eating.

In the early 19th century, navigators passed through the Tutuila, the westward island among the Samoan group of Islands ( one of the four islands called as navigators islands ), when it was also known by the names of Bougainville, Manuo or Maouna.

In what the Fijian government saw as a humiliation, he was forced to withdraw his nomination during the balloting on 9 February 2003, when Samoan candidate Tuiloma Neroni Slade outpolled him.

* Another incident involving the South African team took place at the 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia when an intoxicated Samoan fan, with his face painted in the red and blue of the Samoan flag, ran onto the pitch and attempted to tackle Springbok Louis Koen as he was kicking a goal in the late stages of a pool match against Samoa.

However, various websites, including the official website of Royal Antwerp, cite 20 June 1985 as Mamam's birthdate, which would mean he was in fact almost 16 when he played his first match for Togo and even older than American Samoan Ben Falaniko, who played his first international match aging 15 years and 217 days.

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.

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 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.

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.

Therefore, in the 49-seat parliament, all 47 Samoan Members of Parliament are also matai, performing dual roles as chiefs and modern politicians, with the exception of the two seats reserved for non-Samoans.

In Samoan mythology, Tagaloa ( also known as Tagaloa-lagi or Tagaloa of the Heavens / Skies ) is generally accepted as the supreme ruler, the creator of the universe, the chief of all gods and the progenitor of other gods and humans.

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 ".

Hawaii, Howland Island, Baker Island, the Phoenix Islands, the Rain Islands, the Marquesas and Tuamotu Islands, the Society Islands, the Cook and Austral Islands, all of the Samoan Islands, and Tonga.

Tahitian, Samoan and Hawaiian are all of this sort.

* January 11 – The Pan American World Airways Sikorsky S-42 flying boat Samoan Clipper explodes over Pago Pago, American Samoa, killing all seven people on board.

In all, the Samoan colony was on its way to self-sufficiency and actually reached that achievement just before Solf was called to Berlin and was succeeded by Erich Schultz as Governor of German Samoa.

As evidence they point out that in some societies ( such as certain Samoan tribes ), adults do not speak to their children at all until the children reach a certain age.

* List of all pages beginning with " American Samoan "

Dwayne Johnson, Peter Maivia, Yokozuna, Umaga / Jamal, Manu, Rosey, Samoa Joe, Wild Samoans, The Headshrinkers, Rikishi, and Sonny Siaki all have a Samoan heritage.

Before the arrival of Christian missionaries, starting in 1830, all Samoan males got a traditional tattoo.

Samoan choral music is vital in every religion practiced by Samoans and a number of prominent composers, are well known amongst all Samoans whether composing simple hymns or a classical " Salamo " ( Psalms ), a multi-movement choral piece.

Other Samoan dances include the maulu ' ulu which is an all female dance and is more elegant.

: President William McKinley signed an executive order on 19 February 1900, reading: " The Island of Tutuila, of the Samoan Group, and all other islands of the group east of longitude 171 degrees west of Greenwich, are hereby placed under the control of the Department of the Navy for a naval station.

The term American Samoa entered into conscious usage in 1905 with a first assembly or fono of Samoan chiefs from all ceded islands within the naval station.

He has been described as the best Samoan rugby union player of all time.

Classes are taught in English, however all students also take part in a Samoan language programme.