Linking Samoans
Bluffton, INDIANA — Born and raised in American Samoa until 2015, Julia Mackenzie remembers the day she told her mom that she was on the Bluffton football team.
“We were at Starbucks and my mom had her coffee, so she was happy,” said Mackenzie, reminiscing about that day this past summer. “I...
O se va’aiga i le tama o le ata tifaga “Take Home Pay” le ali’i o Fepulea’i Tofiga ma Stallone i le Samoa News i le aso Gafua na te'a nei ina ia fa’atalanoa e tusa o lana ata tifaga. O lenei ata o lo’o aofia ai ma le au faigaluega a le Samoa News. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The annual White Sunday celebration, dedicated to the children of American Samoa, is today, Sunday, Oct. 13th.
Introduced in the islands by Christian missionaries in the 1800s, White Sunday has became a special holiday, with children being treated to the best — from...
A uniquely Samoan celebration is unfolding this weekend as Sunday dawns around the world. White Sunday is celebrated wherever Samoan communities are present, including New Zealand, and Australia, Honolulu, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Fort Hood (Texas), and at other U.S. military bases around the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s very own Lelalelei Nomura is the newest member of the Cloud Peak Volleyball Club coaching staff.
Lelalelei’s volleyball journey started in the territory, where she played alongside her sister Puafuatausaga Mydori at Faasao Marist High School. But it goes...
Alega, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 15th Annual Tisa’s Tattoo Fest — Oct. 25- 27 — is just around the corner. The theme this year is: “SAVE the Traditional Arts of American Samoa”.
And it will focus on traditional tatau, stone tool making, siapo art, and all things local and sustainable in the arts and...
O le taimi lea ua laulaututu tagata uma sa auai, ae faia le sauniga mamalu i le nofoaga mau o tu’ugamau uma o afioga i Sa’o, lea o lo’o aofia ai le Utu Abe Malae, ma ona tua’a na muamua atu ia te ia. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
Olympia, WASHINGTON — Kahalua Tuitele was born in Seattle but moved to his parents’ native American Samoa a year later.
When he returned to Washington a year ago, Tuitele not only quickly became a star for the Olympia High School football team, earning all-area honors as an offensive lineman, he...
Samoa Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele MalielegaoiJapanese and Japan counterpart Shinzo Abe have taken a little time out from official business to talk rugby. The two leaders swapped signed team jerseys ahead of the Japan-Samoa Pool A game at the Rugby World Cup. Tuilaepa is on an official visit to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — This year’s Miss American Samoa pageant was perhaps the best, as far as overwhelming family and village support. Each of the five contestants had a strong cheering squad that kept them going all night long.
This year’s contestants did not disappoint. Menora-Justine M....