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Samoan Islands; Samoa in the west and American Samoa in the east.. The political union of Samoa (an independent state previously known as Western Samoa) and American Samoa (a US territory also known as Eastern Samoa), both of which are part of the Samoan Islands, has been proposed ever since their current status was established in the first half of the 20th century under the Tripartite ...
It was ratified by the United States Congress by the Ratification Act of 1929 officially incorporating Tutuila into what is now American Samoa. [7] This treaty marked the beginning of American Samoa as a U.S. territory. Initially, the U.S. Navy governed the island for over fifty years before the territory became self-governing.
Amerika Samoa: A History of American Samoa and Its United States Naval Administration (United States Naval Institute, 1960). Huebner, Thorn. "Vernacular literacy, English as a language of wider communication, and language shift in American Samoa." Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development 7.5 (1986): 393–411. Kennedy, Paul.
Robert Louis Stevenson did not witness the storm and its aftermath at Apia but after his December 1889 arrival to Samoa, he wrote about the event. [3] The Second Samoan Civil War , involving Germany, the United States, and Britain, eventually resulted in the Tripartite Convention of 1899 , which partitioned the Samoan Islands into American ...
The Second Samoan Civil War reached a head in 1898 when Germany, Great Britain and the United States disputed over who should control the Samoan Islands. The Battle of Apia occurred in March 1899. Samoan forces loyal to Prince Tanu were besieged by a larger force of Samoan rebels loyal to powerful chief Mata'afa Iosefo. Supporting Prince Tanu ...
American Samoa was acquired by the United States in 1900 after the end of the Second Samoan Civil War. [5] The United States purchased the U.S. Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917. [6] Puerto Rico and Guam remain territories, and the Philippines became independent in 1946, after being a major theater of World War II.
Amerika Samoa: A History of American Samoa and Its United States Naval Administration. Navies and men. New York: Arno Press. ISBN 978-0-405-13038-0. Ryden, George Herbert (1975). The foreign policy of the United States in relation to Samoa. New York: Octagon Books. ISBN 978-0-374-97000-0. (Reprinted by special arrangement with Yale University ...
The government of American Samoa is defined under the Constitution of American Samoa.. The United States Congress, in the Ratification Act of 1929, provided that until the Congress shall provide for the Government of the islands of American Samoa all civil, judicial, and military powers shall be vested in such person or persons and exercised in such manner as the President of the United States ...