Complete History Of American Samoa Island:Hi Guys! how are you today?I hope you are best of health today.well so read complete History of America Samoa Islan.American Samoa is part of the archipelago of Samoa Islands, located to the west of the Cook Islands, Tonga, north and about 300 miles (500 km) south of Tokelau. To the west of the island of Wallis and Futuna group. The 2000 census showed the total population of 57,291 people. The total land area of 200.22 km2 (77 square miles), slightly larger than Washington, DC, American Samoa, the southern territory of the United States.
It is believed that the islands of Samoa were originally lived as far back as 1000 BC .
Samoa was not reached by European explorers until the eighteenth century. Pre-history of Western Samoa (now American Samoa) is inextricably linked with the history of Western Samoa (now independent Samoa). Manua Islands American Samoa has one of the oldest stories in Polynesia, in connection with the title of Tui Manua, relating to the history of the archipelago, Fiji, Tonga, Cook Islands, Tokelau and elsewhere in the Pacific all of which had once been under the occupation of mana.
Tui Manua Manua ruled over most of the Pacific, including Tonga, long before the Tui Tonga Empire. While Tui Manua ruled Tonga, external influences came in the form of imperial activity, beginning with the Empire Twohy Pulotu in Fiji and the subsequent Empire Tui Manua of Samoa. That is, Tonga is strongly influenced by imperialism as Fiji and Samoa. However, Tonga was able to escape through the bitter and bloody wars of imperial domination Tui Manua, which ultimately led to the formation of the empire Tui Tonga around AD 950, in the face of ‘Ao’ eitu, the first Tui Tonga, whose father was a deified Samoan high chief, Eitumâtupu’a Tangaloa, and the mother of women of Tonga, Va’epopua, the great noble origin. This double origin entitled Tui Tonga to hold both divine and secular offices.
In principle, the close cultural and historical links between Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, is essentially elitist, with the participation of mixed marriages between regional aristocratic families. Many years later, after Tonga freed from Samoa, Tonga took power over Samoa Samoa to free himself. Manua was the only group of islands, which remain independent. Tutuila and Aunuu were politically connected to ‘Upolu island in what is now independent Samoa.
We can say that all the Samoa islands are politically connected today through faamatai chiefly system and through family ties, which are as strong as ever. This system faamatai and customs fa’asamoa emerged with two of the most famous early chiefs of Samoa, who were both women and associated with them, and Nafanua Salamasina.
U. S. Territory:International rivalries in the second half of the nineteenth century were settled by 1899 the Tripartite Convention, in which Germany and the U.S. divided the Samoan archipelago. The following year in the United States formally took its part: a smaller group of eastern islands, one of which surrounds the said harbor of Pago Pago. Since 1962, the Western Isles were the country’s independence and adopted the name of the Independent State of Samoa in 1997.
After the Navy of the United States captured the eastern Samoa, on behalf of the United States, existing coal station the Pago Pago Bay has been expanded to a full naval base under the command of the commandant. The Navy provided the matter of the assignment of Tutuila in 1900 and again on the Assignment Manua in 1904. Last emperor Manua, Tui Manua Elisala, was forced to sign a Deed of Assignment Manua after a series of tests the U.S. Navy, known as the “process” of MEAs in Pago Pago, Tau, and overseas Pacific Squadron gunboat.
After World War I, during the Mau movement in Western Samoa (then League of Nations mandate governed New Zealand), was an appropriate American Samoa Mau movement, under the leadership of Samuel Sailele Ripley, The First World War veteran who was originally from the village of Leone. After a meeting in the mainland United States, he was prevented from disembarking from the ship that brought him home, American Samoa, and was not allowed to return, as American Samoa Mau movement was crushed by the U.S. Navy. In 1930, the U.S. Congress sent a commission to investigate the status of American Samoa, led by the Americans, who had participated in the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
In 1938, noted aviator Ed Musick and his crew died on the Pan American Airways S-42 Clipper on Samoa Pago Pago, during a survey flight to Auckland, New Zealand. Shortly after takeoff the plane experienced problems and Musick turned his back to Pago Pago. Although the crew began dumping fuel in preparation for the emergency landing, the spark in the fuel pump caused the blast, which tore the plane apart in the air.
During World War II, U.S. Marines in Samoa outnumbered the local population, having a huge cultural influence. Young Samoan men aged 14 and above, anti-trained U.S. military personnel. Samoa, served in various positions during the Second World War, including as combatants, medical personnel, code personnel, as well as ship repairmen.
After the Second World War, Organic Act of 4500, U.S. Department of the Interior under the auspices of the attempt to include American Samoa, was defeated in Congress, primarily through the efforts of Samoan chiefs, led by Tuiasosopo Mariota . These efforts of the leaders has led to the creation of local legislative bodies, the American Samoa Fono, which meets in the village Fagatogo, often considered a de facto territory and the de jure capital (the United States believes Pago Pago as the official capital region).
During the Navy governor was replaced by the results of local elections 1. Although technically considered “unorganized” because the U.S. Congress has not adopted the Organic Law on the territory of American Samoa is self-government under the Constitution, which entered into force on 1 July 1967. U.S. territory of American Samoa in the list of the United Nations, NGOs, Non-list of which is disputed territorial government officials, who consider themselves self-government.