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Leotina Sivelio Petelo is a Samoan weightlifter who has represented Samoa at the Pacific Games. Petelo is from Ululoloa, Salailua and Saleaula and was educated at Faleata College. [1] She contested the 2019 Junior World Weightlifting Championships, coming 5th in the 81 kg category. [2]
Shalimar Seiuli, (July 6, 1976 – April 22, 1998) known professionally as Shalimar or Atisone Seiuli, was an American Samoan transgender dancer and public figure who gained infamy when she was seen getting into the car of the actor Eddie Murphy. On May 2, 1997, Seiuli, a sex worker, was being watched by police before getting into Murphy's SUV.
As a teenager Vaetoefaga became the tenth and last wife of the Samoan paramount sovereign chief of Ā‘ana, Tui Ā‘ana Tamaalelagi, with whom she conceived their daughter Salamāsina. One of Tamaalelagi's royal attendants named Utufanunutunutu traveled to the Tongan island of Tongatapu with the intent of securing Vaetoefaga as Tamaalelagi's ...
Catherine Laga‘aia has been cast as the eponymous heroine in Disney’s live-action remake of Moana.. Laga‘aia is a 17-year-old Australian actor of Samoan heritage with just one previous ...
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.
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Pili was born in Anchorage, Alaska, to Heather and Billy Pili and is of Samoan and Inupiaq descent. [1] [2] She played football as a lineman from third to eighth grade as the only girl in her league and started playing organized basketball at age eight. [2] [3] Pili attended Dimond High School in Anchorage.
Jaiyah Tauasuesimeamativa Saelua (born July 19, 1988) is an American Samoan footballer who plays as a center-back for the American Samoa national team. Saelua is a faʻafafine, a third gender present in Polynesian society. [3] [4] She is the first openly non-binary and trans woman [5] to compete in a FIFA World Cup qualifier. [3] [6]