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Many of them settled in Hawaii. [1] Samoans from the independent part of Samoa also migrated to Hawaii later on. Demographics. In 2010, 37,463 Hawaii residents ...
At this time, many Samoans serving in the US military emigrated to be stationed in Hawaii. [7] In the 1970s over 7,540 Western Samoans emigrated to the United States, although the number of people from American Samoa who emigrated to the U.S. is unknown.
In the following decades small groups of people from islands such as Hawaii, Guam, [6] Tonga, or American Samoa emigrated to the US. Many of them were Mormons (including most of Tongans and American Samoans), [8] [9] who emigrated to help build Mormon churches, [8] or to seek an education, either in Laie [9] or Salt Lake City. [10]
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 of America.
The vast majority either inhabit independent Polynesian nation-states (Samoa, Niue, Cook Islands, Tonga, and Tuvalu) or form minorities in countries such as Australia, Chile (Easter Island), New Zealand, France (French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna), and the United States (Hawaii and American Samoa), as well as in the British Overseas ...
Apr. 14—In a letter to the U.S. Office of National Marine Sanctuaries in September, American Samoa's Gov. Lemanu Mauga wrote that "fishing prohibitions not only weaken U.S. fisheries but also ...
Hawaii has the largest percentage or second highest, after Utah, of Tongan Americans, with 8,496 people of Tongan descent, making up 0.6% of Hawaiian residents. There are 1,000 Tongans in Honolulu, 0.3% of the city.
The most prominent Polynesian languages, by number of speakers, are Samoan, Tongan, Tahitian, Māori and Hawaiian. The ancestors of modern Polynesians were Lapita navigators , who settled in the Tonga and Samoa areas about 3,000 years ago.