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She was born in Samoa and was educated in Samoa and New Zealand. Her published books of poetry are Solaua, a Secret Embryo (1974 [2]), Pao Alimago on Wet Days (1979), Alaoa, above the Gully of Your Childhood (1986) and Tai, the Heart of a Tree (1989). [3] Von Reiche writes in English. [1]
The 1st edition PDF is in the public domain. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation is a 1928 book by American anthropologist Margaret Mead based upon her research and study of youth – primarily adolescent girls – on the island of Taʻū in American Samoa.
McMullin was born in Japan into a military family, and spent their toddler years in Germany, before moving to American Samoa as a young child where they were raised on Tutuila Island in the villages of Malaeloa and Leone [2] [3] They are of Samoan, Hawaiian, English and Jewish-Irish descent, their father was Samuelu Sailele McMullin of Leone Tutuila and their mother was Lupelele Iosefa ...
Samoans or Samoan people (Samoan: tagata Sāmoa) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the Samoan language. The group's home islands are politically and geographically divided between the Independent State of Samoa and American Samoa , an unincorporated territory of the United States ...
Faʻafafine (Samoan pronunciation: [faʔafafine]; lit. ' in the manner of a woman ') are natal males who align with a third gender or gender role in Samoa. [1] Fa'afafine are not assigned the role at birth, nor raised as girls due to a lack of daughters, as is often claimed in western media.
Queen Salamasina (floruit in the 1500s) was a powerful and high-ranking woman in Samoan social history. She held the four papā (district) titles which gave her the paramount status of Tafa‘ifā ('one supported by four') on the western islands of Samoa. [1]
In August 2020 she was named by USA Today on its list of influential women from U.S. territories. [1] Sinavaiana-Gabbard moved to Samoa after she retired. [9] She was murdered at the GaluMoana Theater in Vaivase-uta, on 26 May 2024, at the age of 78. [9] [10] Playwright Sia Figiel was charged with her murder. [11] [12]
In February 2019, Young was the recipient of a New Zealand Society of Authors Waitangi Day Honor. In accepting the award, Young said: [3] As a brown woman who writes – oftentimes from the margins and smashing gates as I do so – I have seen the transformative power wrought by stories written by us, about us, and for us, as our communities the world over revel in books they can see ...