Samoans or Samoan people (Samoan: tagata Sāmoa) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the...
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Championship. In 1979, the Wild Samoans joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). They were initially billed as simply "The Samoans" before reverting to their...
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route back to Samoa in 1915. By 1918, Western Samoa had a population of some 38,000 Samoans and 1,500 Europeans. However, native Samoans greatly resented...
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Afa Anoaʻi (redirect from Wild Samoan Afa)
siblings formed a tag team known best as The Wild Samoans. Throughout the 1970s, The Wild Samoans wrestled for the Canadian Stampede Wrestling promotion...
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2012, a group of American Samoans sued the federal government seeking recognition of birthright citizenship for American Samoans in the case Tuaua v. United...
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Sika Anoaʻi (redirect from Wild Samoan Sika)
the ring name Sika, was a Samoan-American professional wrestler. He is best known as one-half of the tag team the Wild Samoans with his older brother Afa...
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Samu (wrestler) (redirect from Wild Samoan Samula)
presented. The Samoans successfully defended their WCCW Tag-Team titles against Michael Hayes and Steve Cox. In the beginning of 1989, the Samoans left WCCW...
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the Laughing Samoans would not be producing another touring show for the foreseeable future. Bloomsbury Theatre – The Laughing Samoans – 29/Jul/2009...
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military families of American Samoans emigrated to the United States specifically to Hawaii. In 1951, nearly 1,000 American Samoans linked with the army (i...
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next night, the Samoans played an "all-LA bill" at the Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco, opening for Shock and the Zeros. The Samoans' first release,...
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title Samoan Wedding. After a successful 2006, the Naked Samoans returned to their roots and performed with their new production, Naked Samoans Go Home...
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Sam Fatu (redirect from Samoan Savage)
in-ring competition and The Samoan SWAT Team was renamed "The New Wild Samoans". At Starrcade in December 1989, The New Wild Samoans competed in the Iron Team...
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territory in the Samoan Islands Samoan language, the native language of the Samoan Islands Samoans, a Polynesian ethnic group of the Samoan Islands This disambiguation...
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teamed with the Samoan Savage as "The New Wild Samoans" (a reference to the "original" Wild Samoans). For the remainder of the Samoan SWAT Team's time...
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American Samoan descent. For information about the American Samoan people, see Demographics of American Samoa, Samoans, and Culture of Samoa. For specific...
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Tofiga Fepulea'i (category New Zealand people of Samoan descent)
The Laughing Samoans at Large. The Laughing Samoans disbanded in 2016. Among the characters Fepulea'i and Ete perform in the Laughing Samoans are two women...
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Samoans in Hawaii are Hawaii residents of Samoan descent. Samoans in Hawaii may be from or have ancestors in the independent nation of Samoa, the territory...
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Anoaʻi family (redirect from Samoan Gangstas)
include Roman Reigns and WWE Hall of Famers Rikishi, Yokozuna, and the Wild Samoans (Afa and Sika). Other notable members include The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy...
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Samoan (Gagana faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa; IPA: [ŋaˈŋana ˈsaːmʊa]) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands. Administratively...
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called Samoans "lazy, thieving liars." After having turned down the proposal to elect their own Governor in three plebiscites, American Samoans in a 1976...
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lifestyle on Samoa and in the Samoan diaspora. It embraces an all-encompassing system of behavior and of responsibilities that spells out all Samoans' relationships...
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cultural production in places where Samoans settled, particularly New Zealand. In the early 1980s, Footsoulijah, four Samoan performers from Wellington, credit...
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at least 30,000 people in Samoa who are of mixed Samoan and Chinese descent, although they are classified as ethnic Samoans in official census. Around...
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Samoa (or Western Samoa until 1996) first participated at the Olympic Games in 1984, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since...
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February 2022. "Samoans: Life in New Zealand". Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Susana Talagi (8 April 2008). "Sacred marks identify Samoans". Fairfax...
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there are many New Zealand-born Samoans living in Australia, known as Samoan New Zealand Australians. Most Samoans in Australia live in Sydney, Brisbane...
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of Western Samoa adopted on 4 July 1997. The step caused "surprise and uproar" in neighboring American Samoa, as for some American Samoans the change...
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on child care. However, the concept of age for the Samoans is not the same as in the West. Samoans do not keep track of birth days, and they judge maturity...
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Rosey, Samoa Joe, The Wild Samoans, The Headshrinkers, Rikishi, Roman Reigns, and Sonny Siaki all have a Samoan heritage. Sports in American Samoa are influenced...
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governance called fa'amatai. Samoans are one of the largest Polynesian populations in the world, and most are of exclusively Samoan ancestry. The oldest known...
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