Beautiful Samoa Research Paper
(Beautiful Samoa)
Samoa is a group of islands; Western Samoa and American Samoa. These islands are located in the South Pacific Ocean about half way between Hawaii and New Zealand, together they are slightly smaller than Rhode Island. Don’t let the small size fool you, these islands are full of rich life and culture. The pre-Western history of Eastern Samoa (now American Samoa) is bound with the history of Western Samoa (now independent Samoa). The Manu'a Islands of American Samoa has one of the oldest histories of Polynesia, accompanying the Tui Manua title, connected with the histories of the archipelagos of Fiji, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Tokelau, Tahiti, and elsewhere in the Pacific, where Manu'a once had influence. During the Tongan …show more content…
My personal favorite that was told to my by Desmond and Toalo is the story of Kelesa and the story of The turtle and shark.
“Kelesa gets jealous of girls that have longer hair that she thinks is longer than hers. So if girls walk around with their hair down at night time, they get slapped in the face. Once that happens they believed that they will have a deformity in their mouth, or a mark that wont go away.”
Another is called Turtle and Shark, “Which is a blind mother and daughter from the village of Iliili. The family treated them so badly that they decided to give up their life so they moved to the village of Vaitogi. There they were treated well. The mother and daughter were so grateful to feel loved by the villagers that they sacrificed their life by jumping into the ocean off these cliffs by the village, when they did that their bodies changed, the old woman was turned into a turtle and the daughter became a shark. that village that they are from will once a year go to the beach where they jumped and sing a specific song named laumai, this is the only village that can sing this song. Nobody else is allowed. When they go to the cliffs and sing, the shark and the turtle come towards the shore, but they also tell you not to point at them if you do they will go away thinking that you are going to shoot them. Then they wont come back until the next year when that song is sung
Samoa is a group of islands; Western Samoa and American Samoa. These islands are located in the South Pacific Ocean about half way between Hawaii and New Zealand, together they are slightly smaller than Rhode Island. Don’t let the small size fool you, these islands are full of rich life and culture. The pre-Western history of Eastern Samoa (now American Samoa) is bound with the history of Western Samoa (now independent Samoa). The Manu'a Islands of American Samoa has one of the oldest histories of Polynesia, accompanying the Tui Manua title, connected with the histories of the archipelagos of Fiji, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Tokelau, Tahiti, and elsewhere in the Pacific, where Manu'a once had influence. During the Tongan …show more content…
My personal favorite that was told to my by Desmond and Toalo is the story of Kelesa and the story of The turtle and shark.
“Kelesa gets jealous of girls that have longer hair that she thinks is longer than hers. So if girls walk around with their hair down at night time, they get slapped in the face. Once that happens they believed that they will have a deformity in their mouth, or a mark that wont go away.”
Another is called Turtle and Shark, “Which is a blind mother and daughter from the village of Iliili. The family treated them so badly that they decided to give up their life so they moved to the village of Vaitogi. There they were treated well. The mother and daughter were so grateful to feel loved by the villagers that they sacrificed their life by jumping into the ocean off these cliffs by the village, when they did that their bodies changed, the old woman was turned into a turtle and the daughter became a shark. that village that they are from will once a year go to the beach where they jumped and sing a specific song named laumai, this is the only village that can sing this song. Nobody else is allowed. When they go to the cliffs and sing, the shark and the turtle come towards the shore, but they also tell you not to point at them if you do they will go away thinking that you are going to shoot them. Then they wont come back until the next year when that song is sung