Word: tuiteleleapaga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some witnesses advised making Samoa a part of Hawaii Territory, others violently opposed this. Most witnesses agreed with a letter to the commission from a committee of Samoan chiefs which declaimed: "Navy rule must cease!" Student Nelson Samoa Tuiteleleapaga of the University of Hawaii described how Navy officers permitted sailors to marry Samoan girls, then to leave them behind on sailing away. Few agreed with that part of the chief's letter which read: "A million and a half dollars must be appropriated for the establishment of the Samoan government. The education of the Samoan people is sufficient...
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