81. Samoa Culture - Fa'a Samoa samoa culture Fa a samoa. samoa Islands Pacific Travel Guides. Go toPacific travel guides. samoa Tour Companies. Fa a samoa The samoan Way. http://www.samoa.islands-travel.com/culture.html

Samoa Culture Fa'a Samoa Samoa Islands Pacific Travel Guides Samoa Tour Companies Fa'a Samoa The Samoan Way Samoans live a simple lifestyle without many material possessions. Most houses are open sided wooden structures raised off the floor with just one large open room and mats on the floor. These houses, or fales as they are called in Samoa, are ideal for the tropical heat. At night, coconut fronds are rolled down the side of the house to give privacy or protection from the wind or rain. This open style living is typical of Samoan social structure. Samoans share everything they have, from food to wages, with their extended families, and with the church. The church is the focal point of village life and the larger the church, the more esteem the village has over its neighbouring villages - the reason for so many elaborate churches around the island. Village life evolves around the home for women, and the plantation or sea for men. School education is not considered of great importance, and although most children do go to school, it very often finishes at midday. Village Fale Outrigger Canoe After school, it's back to the village way: smaller kids help out at home by sweeping the garden, whist the older girls help wash the clothes and the older boys go to the plantation. At the end of the day the youth gathers on the village green to play kiriti (a wild local form of cricket), volleyball, touch rugby and to bath in the sea.

82. You're Home With The Samoa News ABOUT samoaN culture. The samoan culture is alive and well in Americansamoa (as well as in the nearby independent nation of samoa). http://www.samoanews.com/homepage.html

WELCOME TO THE ON-LINE HOME OF THE SAMOA NEWS We are American Samoa's daily newspaper, publishing six days a week (no paper on Sundays). Our web site includes the six most recent issues of the newspaper, but no archives of older issues. At this time (November 2001) we are not hosting any chats or bulletin boards, but we will soon be hosting an on-line editorial page and we encourage Letters to the Editor and/or the Webmaster . To communicate with the journalists at our newspaper, click here . For other links dealing with Samoa or related matters, click here If you want to use this web site to publicize or advertise some event or product or service, let us know ! Upon request we will send information regarding advertising rates. To return to the six most recent issues of the Samoa News , click here ABOUT SAMOA NEWS The Samoa News is privately owned by American Samoa residents and has been in existence since the 1960's. The newsroom includes about 5 full time journalists. The newspaper includes both Samoan and English material on a daily basis, but 60% of the newspaper is published in English. ABOUT AMERICAN SAMOA American Samoa is a United States territory located south of the equator in the South Pacific Ocean. About 60,000 people live here, and most of us live on the main island of Tutuila. Although U.S. citizens are allowed to settle in American Samoa, more than 90% of the residents of the territory are Samoans or part-Samoans.

83. American Samoa April 4, 2003 The majority of the people live in fales (samoan cultural houses), but modernstructural builings are also becoming popular in american samoa. http://khs.sandi.net/galaxy/galaxy2002_2003/apri_4_2003/article_pages/asamoa.htm

April 4, 2003 American Samoa by Yasir A. "American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the USA, but it is not under the jurisdiction of the US constitution" explains Deanna Swaney, the author of Samoa Western and American Samoa (126). American Samoa is made up of six small islands. They are namely, Swains Island, Ofu, Olesega, Manua group-Tau, Rose, Aunuu, the Samoan chain and Tutuila. It is located in the Southern central Pacific Ocean about 2,300 miles Northeast of Hawaii. It is also not far from New Zealand. As early as 1300 B.C., people were living on these chain of islands. They migrated from the nearby countries or Fiji and Hawaii. They brought with them their culture, which is visible today in the country. Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutch sailor, was the first European to discover the island of Samoa. He saw the island in 1722 but did not take a precise note and map of the island's geographical position. However, Luis Antoine de Bongainville, a French navigator visited the island forty six years later and recorded its accurate position helping other sailors after him. Great Britain, Germany and the United States of America all competed for a position in the newly found island. Each group had its own interest in the region. For example, America wanted a naval station at the island. By 1872, the Tutuila chiefs agreed with the American Navy to use Pago Pago as a coaling station.

84. Samoa of the World). american samoa Chapter 1. General Information (Countries of theWorld). A social history of youth in samoa religion, capitalism, and cultural http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108149.html

HOTWORDS CITE PRINT EMAIL in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... D-Day Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map Also from Infoplease Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips World Countries Samoa Infoplease Atlas: Samoa Independent State of Samoa Head of State: Malietoa Tanumafili II (1963) Prime Minister: Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi (1998) Area: 1,137 sq mi (2,944 sq km) Population (2004 est.): Capital and largest city (2003 est.): Apia, 35,900 Monetary unit: Tala Languages: Samoan and English Ethnicity/race: Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians 7% (persons of European and Polynesian blood), Europeans 0.4% Religion: Christian 99.7% Literacy rate: 100% (2003 est.) Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2002 est.): $1 billion; per capita $5,600. Real growth rate: Inflation: 4% (2001 est.). Unemployment: n.a.; note: substantial underemployment. Arable land: Agriculture: coconuts, bananas, taro, yams, coffee, cocoa. Labor force: 90,000 (2000 est.).

85. American Samoa Daily life still revolves around cultural traditions The people of samoa are bilingual TheAmerican samoans have a strong Christian community which dates back to http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/7277/samoa.html

Current Time in American Samoa Now Playing: Over The Rainbow Click Map Circle for Large Area Image DEMOGRAPHICS American Samoa is an island group located in the South Pacific Ocean. It is approximately 2300 miles south southwest of Hawaii, 1600 miles north northeast of New Zealand and 2700 miles due east of Australia's Cape York Peninsula. At 14 degrees south latitude and 170 degrees west longitude, it lies approximately 1000 miles south of The Equator and just east of the International Date Line. The American Samoa Island Group consists of six volcanic islands dominated by low but very sheer and rugged tropical forest-covered peaks, and limited coastal plains, plus one coral atoll. The islands are Tutuila, Ta'u, Ofu, Olosega, Aunu'u, and Swains. Rose Atoll, which is home to sea turtles and sea birds completes the group. American Samoa has a tropical marine climate, moderated during the Winter months of May through October by southeast trade winds. Average temperature is 82 degrees F with only a few degrees of fluctuation between the Winter and Summer months. The Summer rainy season lasts from November to April and accounts for approximately 70 percent of the 200 inches of annual rainfall. Hurricanes are a continual problem from December through March, especially when the El Nino effect is evident. Tutuila is the main island of the group with Pago Pago, located at its center and along the harbor, being the capital of the territory and the center of commerce. Tutuila Island covers a total land area of 199 square kilometers (76 square miles). The population of the island is about 58,000. Pago Pago Harbor is one of the best deep water, all-weather harbors in all of the South Pacific.

86. American Samoa Yet despite all of this, american samoa still somehow manages to be a friendly,spectacular destination for travellers. Cultural practice hasn t entirely http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/samoa/about_destin/am_samoa_country.html

About the country Hotels Rental Cars Domestic Flights ... Tours to Samoa Samoa (American) Country Profile Despite the palm-trees-wafting-in-the-trade-winds image, American Samoa is something of an oddity in the South Pacific. Hastily Americanised in the 1960s, the islands have all the ugly results of commercial and cultural imperialism sticking out from behind the fronds. The history of American Samoa over the last hundred years is a history of the desperate attempts by spent colonial forces to exert authority over a traditional people. Everyone from the English, to the Germans, to the Americans have pushed and pulled at the group of islands, and the shared god of all these Western nations has almost totally replaced the traditional belief system. Yet despite all of this, American Samoa still somehow manages to be a friendly, spectacular destination for travellers. Cultural practice hasn't entirely disappeared, only a small area of the islands is disgustingly polluted and the locals' friendliness has barely been dented. Add to this the trademark Pacific Islands weather and an astonishingly picturesque landscape, and you've got a recipe for an intoxicating cocktail of rough liquor and smooth coconut milk.

87. Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary Daily life still revolves around cultural traditions. The people of samoaare bilingual. american samoa has a 97 percent literacy rate. http://www.fbnms.nos.noaa.gov/html/samoa.html

Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary Official Site June 06, 2004 Home About the Sanctuary Management Research ... Photo Gallery America Samoa Location: American Samoa is in the Pacific ocean about two-thirds of the way between Hawaii and New Zealand. It is 14 degrees south of the Equator and just east of the International Date Line. Size: American Samoa has a total area of 199 square kilometers (76 square miles), roughly about the size of Washington D.C. The population is approximately 60,000. Landscape: American Samoa consists of 5 inhabited volcanic islands with rugged peaks and limited coastal plains, plus two coral atolls. Pago Pago, on the island of Tutuila is one of the best natural deepwater harbors in the South Pacific Ocean. Climate: History: American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States, obtained by treaty with local chiefs in 1900. People: The Samoans represent the largest population of Polynesian people. Despite exposure to outside influences, the Samoans take pride in their two thousand-year-old culture (fa'a samoa, the Samoan Way) and have preserved it successfully. Daily life still revolves around cultural traditions. The people of Samoa are bilingual. English is used mainly in school and in business situations and Samoan is spoken in the home and among friends. American Samoa has a 97 percent literacy rate. Economy: The government and the tuna canning industry employ the majority of American Samoans. Washington provides most of the operating budget of the territorial government. Together, the Starkist and Samoa Packing tuna canneries pack and can 95% of American Samoa's exports.

88. American Samoa Western samoa is a neighbouring independent country that shares the sameculture. american samoa became an unorganised US territory in 1900. http://www.spc.org.nc/youth/Country_briefs/american_samoa.htm

Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Secrétariat général de la Communauté du Pacifique (CPS) Pacific Youth Bureau Bureau de la Jeunesse du Pacifique Home About PYB Overview Staff ... Droits d'auteur PROGRAMMES Communiqué on Pacific Youth Pacific Youth Strategy 2005 (PYS2005) PYS2005 Update (2003) Small Island States Fund PUBLICATIONS Youthlink Newsletter Publications List PDF Publications RESOURCES Youth-related Resources Best Practice Initiatives Photo Gallery Pacific Youth in the News ... Pacific Youth Profiles Country Briefs Le pays American Samoa Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Cook Islands Federated States of Micronesia ... Nauru New Caledonia Niue Palau Papua New Guinea Pitcairn Samoa SolomonIslands Tokelau Tonga ... Tuvalu Vanuatu Wallis and Futuna American Samoa HISTORY American (Amerika) Samoa is a group of six Polynesian islands in the South Pacific. Fourteen degrees below the equator, it is the United States' southern-most territory. It is known as the heart of Polynesia. If you drew a triangle from Hawaii, New Zealand and Tahiti you would find Samoa in the middle. Western Samoa is a neighbouring independent country that shares the same culture. American Samoa became an unorganised U.S. territory in 1900. SUMMARY OF YOUTH PROGRAMMES SINCE 1997 a) National Quit Smoking Workshops

89. Archaeology Of American Samoa Bibliography Cultural Reconnaissance Survey Ausasi harboe Project Auasi, Tutuila Island, AmericanSamoa. Honolulu, HI, Department of Anthropology, Bernice P. Bishop Museum. http://www.tamug.edu/mast/aasu/bib.html

Selected Works on American Samoan Archaeology and Related Subjects Bernstein, R. (1983). Samoa: A Paradise Lost? New York Times Magazine. Brophy, K. R. (1986). Tulauta and the Maupua Adze Quarry: The Lithic Manufacturing Center of Samoa. Department of Anthropology, Brown University. Buck, P., Sir (1930). Samoan Material Culture. Honolulu, Hawaii, Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 75. Caton, H. E. (1990). The Samoa Reader: Anthropologists Take Stock. New York, University Press of America. Clark, J. T. (1980). Historic Preservation in American Samoa: Program Evaluation and Archaeological Site Inventory. Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honoluli, HI. Clark, J. T. and D. J. Herdrich (1988). The Eastern Tutuila Archaeological Project: 1986 Final Report, American Samoa Historic Preservation Office. Clark, J. T. and M. G. Michlovich (1996). “An early settlement in the Polynesian homeland: excavations at "Aoa valley" Tutuila Island.” Journal of Field Archaeology 23(2): 151-167. Clark, J. T., E. Wright, et al. Interactions Within and Beyond the Samoan Archipelago: Evidence from Basaltic Rock Geochemistry. Prehistoric Long-distance Interaction in Oceania: An Interdisciplinary Approach. M. I. Weisler, New Zealand Archaeological Association Monograph.

90. Coastal Services (July/August 2003) - Population Growth: American Samoa Determin In 1997, american samoa s late Governor Tauese Sunia expanded the territory s CoralReef and legislation has been proposed to help preserve cultural traditions http://www.csc.noaa.gov/magazine/2003/04/samoa.html

Site Search: Center Home Publications Coastal Services July/August 2003 Issue Coastal Services , July/August 2003 Population Growth: American Samoa Determines How Many Is Too Many If these population trends continue, heavy demands will be placed on ocean and coastal resources. The world's growing population is putting enormous pressure on the environment. Nowhere is this more apparent than on a small island, where land and resources are limited. Coastal resource managers in American Samoa have taken on this often-controversial issue by shining a light on the fundamental problems associated with rapid population growth, and presenting a call to action for its territorial leaders that includes a recommended population ceiling. "This is a global problem," says Lelei Peau, deputy director of the American Samoa Department of Commerce. "We can either deal with this now or wait until it gets worse. There will never be an easier time to address this." "Population growth is an important issue for all coastal zone managers," notes Peter Craig, an ecologist with the National Park of American Samoa. More than 50 percent of the U.S. population now lives in coastal areas, and that number is expected to rise. If these population trends continue, heavy demands will be placed on ocean and coastal resources, and "whatever happens in the watershed likely will impact coastal waters." In 1997, American Samoa's late Governor Tauese Sunia expanded the territory's Coral Reef Advisory Group into a task force to address population growth. In the year since the Population Implementation Committee issued its report, the islands' immigration system has been modernized, family planning education has begun, and legislation has been proposed to help preserve cultural traditions. Health care and education policies have changed, and the public is beginning to see the connection between everyday problems and population growth.

91. Asg Main Page In spite of its distant location and pronounced cultural differences, AmericanSamoa s economic development is firmly linked to that of the United States. http://www.doi.gov/oia/Islandpages/asgmain.htm

OIA Field Office Lydia Faleafine-Nomura Field Representative Office of Insular Affairs Department of the Interior Post Office Box 1725 Pago, American Samoa 96799 011 (684) 633-2415 Fax Cellular Phone: 011 (684) 733-1148 EST -6 hours; DST -7 hours History By the Treaty of Berlin of 1899, the United Kingdom and Germany renounced in favor of the United States all their rights and claims over the eastern islands of Samoa. This treaty went into effect on February 16, 1900. On April 17, 1900, the matai (chiefs) of Tutuila formally ceded the islands of Tutuila and Aunu'u to the United States. On July 16, 1904, the king and matai of Manu'a ceded the islands of Ta'u, Ofu, Olosega, and Rose Atoll to the United States. Congress formally ratified the 1900 and 1904 deeds of cession retroactively in 1929. Swains Island became part of American Samoa by joint resolution of Congress in 1925. Political Status American Samoa, an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States, is administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior. It is "unincorporated" because not all provisions of the U.S. Constitution apply to the territory. The Congress has not provided the territory with an organic act, which organizes the government much like a constitution would. Instead, the Congress gave plenary authority over the territory to the Secretary of the Interior, who in turn allowed American Samoans to draft their own constitution under which their government functions.

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