Manu'a cession day
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The village of Ta’u held a special ceremony Monday morning for the opening of an access road and the groundbreaking for the building of a Department of Health (DOH) clinic which will bring essential health services to the Manu’a islands.
Treasurer HTC Malemo Tausaga was...
A look at the new runway at the Ofu, Manu’a Airport where a clean up was underway late yesterday afternoon in preparation for the dedication of this and other infrastructure projects in the Manu’a Islands as the territory celebrates Manu’a Cession day this weekend. The governor and a contingent of...
His body is in Dillingham, Alaska but his heart and mind are with his Village of Ofu and all of Manu’atele! Ia manuia tele lou sisiga fu’a Manu’atele all the way from Dillingham Alaska — o gai kamaiki mai Ofu. [photo: Manu’atele Worldwide]
Ta'u, MANU'A ISLANDS — Manu’a Flag Day Farm Fair underway at the Manu’a High School gym is one of the events for Manu’a Cession Day, commemorating the ceding of the island group to the United States after the last King of Manu’a, Tuimanu’a Elisara signed the Deed of Cession of Manu’a in 1904.
The...
Le aumalaga lea a le Land Grant mai le Kolisi Tuufa’atasi o Amerika Samoa i le malaga a le MV Manu’atele III i le po o le aso Gafua agai atu i Manu’a. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Lemanu-Talauega Administration plans to be in Manu’a for the Manu’a Flag Day festivities.
Events and festivities are planned from July 14th-16th.
On July 16th, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga and Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Va’alele Ale will lead a delegation to Ta’u, Manu’a...

![First Lady Ella Mauga was given the honor of the ribbon cutting for the new access road. [courtesy photo] First Lady Ella Mauga](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/first_lady_cuts_ribbon.jpg?itok=7Z4CJzYl)


![Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale (left) looking over agriculture products during yesterday’s Manu’a Flag Day Farm Fair underway at the Manu’a High School gym. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost] Lt. Gov. at Manu'a Farm Fair](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/manua_farm_fair_2791_n.jpg?itok=JYtjpsQg)

![Fitiuta kids enjoy the Manu’a Cession Day holiday in 2014 at the Faseuga Pool Maia, Fitiuta. The photo was posted on the Manu'atele Community Worldwide Facebook page along with best wishes for a Happy Cession Day. One of the messages said, “Today let’s forget all our island problems and just be happy … God bless our people, our leaders, our ancestors, our lands and waters … ” [photo: SN archives via M3 on Facebook] Kids jumping into an ocean tide pool](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fitiuta_kids_web_n.jpg?itok=WUvuPOW_)