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Samoan dance is the poetry of a people. Traditional choreography comes from place and custom; the dances tell a story of cultural values and celebrate
Samoa’s culture, or Fa’a Samoa, is a way of life that holds respect for family, community and church at its core. Find out more about the Samoan culture.
The Polynesian Society is indebted to Dr. John Fraser of Sydney for permission to reproduce in this Journal his paper originally pnblished in the “Transactions of the Royal Society, N.S.W.,” 1891, on the “Samoan story of Creation.”
Samoa is one of the main island groups located within the Polynesian Triangle, comprising American Samoa and the Independent State of Samoa. Samoans have practiced tattoos for more than 2,000 years.
English and Maori are the official languages. Maori is a major Polynesian language, and as such, is similar to Hawaiian, Samoan, Tahitian, and other island languages, with which it shares many words that are identical or similar in sound and meanings.
It seems like everybody’s got an opinion about the Samoan tattoo – who should be getting them, how they should be given, how they’re meant to be worn or displayed, etc.
Samoans or Samoan people (Samoan: tagata Sāmoa) are a Polynesian ethnic group native to the Samoan Islands, an Polynesian archipelago, an speak the Samoan language.The group’s home islands are politically and geographically divided between the country of Samoa and American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United …
Culture of Samoa – history, people, clothing, traditions, women, beliefs, food, customs, family No-Sa
Samoa (/ s ə ˈ m oʊ ə /), officially the Independent State of Samoa (Samoan: Malo Saʻoloto Tutoʻatasi o Sāmoa; Samoan: Sāmoa, IPA: ) and, until 4 July 1997, known as Western Samoa, is a unitary parliamentary democracy …