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Tangata O Le Moana: New Zealand and the People of the Pacific
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Sean Mallon, Kolokesa Mahina-Tuai, Damon Ieremia Salesa · Te Papa Press · 2012 · Book

Aotearoa New Zealand has been shaped by a long and dynamic history with the other islands of the Pacific, their people and their cultures. Today, it is home to the largest population of Pacific Islanders anywhere in the world. The first of its kind, this illustrated history...

Saili Matagi: Samoan Migrants in Australia
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Unasa, Leulu Felise Vaʻa · editorips@usp.ac.fj · 2001 · Book

An exploration of the practice of fa'a-Samoa among migrants, of the nature of the politics of traditionn within their communities and of the search for opportunities in new environments.

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Mau: Samoa's Struggle for Freedom
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Michael Field · 1991 · Book

"On 29 August 1914 New Zealand troops landed in German Samoa and established a colonial rule that was to last almost 50 years. The new administrators were an odd assortment of benevolent misfits. Their unchecked power led to widespread racism and the distortion of justice,...

The Making of Modern Samoa: Traditional Authority and Colonial Administration in the History of Western Samoa
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Malama Meleisea · editorips@usp.ac.fj · 1987 · Book

"Since independence in January 1962, several constitutional court cases have exposed the dilemma which the Western Samoa Government is facing balancing fa'a Samoa (Samoan customs and traditions) with Western legal systems of authority. This book traces the clash between Samoan...

Lagaga: A Short History of Western Samoa
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Malama Meleisea, Penelope Schoeffel Meleisea · editorips@usp.ac.fj · 1987 · Book

A history from writers from Western Samoa, examining thematically the influences of European settlers, the churches, German and NZ colonialism and the background to Western Samoa's independence. This short history is written for the general reader and for senior high school and...

Sala’Ilua a Samoan Mystery
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Bradd Shore · Columbia University Press · 1982 · Journal article

Presents an ethnography of Samoa cast as a mystery story. Studies a murder and the sequence of events surrounding it as the center while looking at the culture as a whole.

A footnote to history; eight years of trouble in Samoa
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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 · 1895 · Book

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Samoan Islands -- History
The Congress of Women held in the Woman's building, World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U.S.A., 1893 with portraits, biographies, and addresses ; published by authority of the Board of Lady Managers ...
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Congress of Women (1894 : Chicago, Ill.), World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) · 1894 · Book

824 p. : 27 cm

Samoa, a hundred years ago and long before. Together with notes on the cults and customs of twenty-three other islands in the Pacific
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Turner, George, 1817 or 1818-1891 · 1884 · Book

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