When I was in elementary school, I would dance around our living room, somewhat bragging to my sister to the tune of The Lion King's "I Just Can’t Wait to Be King" that "I just can’t wait to be chief.

The approach we take at TALA to represent the Samoan way and culture is instilled in our staff and evidenced through the apa ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Alex Rose has a story to tell, and you can see it on the growing tapestry that adorns his powerful body. Rose, a discus thrower from Grand Rapids, represented Samoa in the ...

John Poynton was a well-known British and mostly liked painter in Samoa. I knew him from my time in Peace Corps. He laughed when he told me this. His home, a hovel at the foot of mountain on which ...

No matter that the temperatures are in the 80s; with 98 percent of American Samoa’s population being Christian, Christmas is a spectacular time of year. In two weeks of programming, everyone in ...

For a child of the pacific diaspora, it seemed a perfect place to meet: amidst the clamor and conveyor belts of Auckland Airport. This year 1,100 Samoans will officially migrate to New Zealand, ...

Gabrielle T. Langkilde ’21, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a joint concentrator in Sociology and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays. Last ...

A shorter version of this post originally appeared on Culture Digitally. By now we're all familiar with the story of Manti Te'o—how he captured football fans' hearts, how he led his team to the ...

HONOLULU – John Fitisemanu, who works for a lab company in Utah, has paid U.S. taxes and been subject to American laws his whole life. But the 53-year-old father and husband isn’t considered a U.S.

IN 1890 Henry Adams, seeking distraction from the recent death of his wife, traveled into the Pacific with his friend John La Farge. In October they reached Samoa, where their appropriately august ...