History about Samoa
About SamoaTONGA AND SAMOA'S BATTLE AND THE ORIGINS OF THE NAME MALIETOA. Translated by the deceased priest S. Ella. This is a very verbatim interpretation. You may repeat the term "then" until vomiting, but this is the proper reproduction of "Ona...........ai lea", the Samoan narration forme. The groups Ellice and Gilbert have notable stories of Tongan tyranny suffered by these ordinary souls.
In Fiji itself, Tongan authorities were felt and feared. Translated by Song-Pese Saafiafi. Composted by the Queen of Tonga after the alleged demise of her boy by the Samoans. Oh, unfortunately, my love! Oh, my love! The pain! Oh aue lo'u lotso! e, lo'u lotso! le vau an!
Tautai's review: Samoa, World History and the Life of O.F. Nelson
It is a novel about Ta'isi O.F. Nelson that places his live in the contexts of the British Empire and twentieth centuriesonialism. That was a time when the breed was the excuse for domination by colonies in Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands. Kolonial officers recounted tales of what their regime was like for the good of the colonized peoples they governed.
There was a colored order of the races in which whites governed a group of tanuki. At that time, the narrative of racism represented a mixture of races, half-occupations, as those who could disturb and undermine the collonial order. This is what Professor Damon Salesa wrote about in his novel Rayal Crossings, which shows how the maintenance of colour hierarchy was crucial to British Empire-colonialism.
In order to share and capture, the colonizers had to make sure that racially diverse individuals were marginalized and distrusted. When the indigenous peoples were ingrate and opposed the deprivation of their fundamental right under collective law, there must be a rogue who misled them and must be muted. Same for Mahatma Ghandi and Nelson Mandela.
The Samoa case was the fault of the New Zealand colonizers and their New Zealand politicians who put the blame on Ta'isi. A wealthy, prosperous and respectful man, he backed the protests of other Samoan leadership against legislation that robbed them of their fundamental freedoms. Ta'isi was the fall guy. As an activist he was accused of support for the just cause of the Samoans, of governing himself or at least having a say in it.
Not being able to acknowledge the injustices of their politics and the increasing insurrection of Samoan rulers against them, they accused Ta'isi of being an activist and the Mau. Those congregations chose to believe that the ordinary indigenous people could not have had any idea of their own righteousness and equality-rightness.
So, Ta'isi was found guilty. Their tale to the whole wide planet was that Ta'isi was not a'real' Samoyan, he was a semicaste, and when he criticized the government he was just driven by his commercial interests. You said that Ta'isi was not only a trouble-maker, but also an abuser who deceived and deceived the Samoans.
As part of the New Zealand Colony Administration's effort to segregate partially-Samoic entrepreneurs and growers from their Saoan side, they implemented a state-subsidized co-purchase program and placed the seized West African plants under the control of the Sao Paulo state. One could argue that they have contributed to the destruction of Samoa's agriculture.
Ta'isi had in his fight for equity ressources that no other Samoan leader had, and so he gave them with generosity and with all his heart. There was a large group of powerful people all over the globe, among them Maori chiefs of his age. Writing in both English and Samoan, he has written several hundred letters and papers to help the cause of Samoan self-government.
At his own cost he was able to go to Geneva to try to bring Samoa before the League of Nations, and the way he was dealt with there is very sordid. Being punished by the collonial agencies, Ta'isi was found treasonable in the courts - without clues.
O'Brien has painstakingly explored the lives of Ta'isi, a lives that were both traumatic and inspirational. So far his fight for equity and the right of the Samoan nation has never been fully explained. Some Samoans have been writing about the Mau; I, Maualaivao Albert Wendt, Leiataua Kilifoti Eteuati, Toesulusulu Damon Salesa and other academics like Michael Field, Peter Hempenstall and Noel Rutherford, but none of us have said much about Ta'isi.
Up to now, his history has hardly been recounted, and now Dr. O'Brien has delivered the most profound historic narrative ever to have been made about colonial Samoa between the two world wars. O'Brien has found that the only information about Ta'isi's unavailable to her was his letter in Samoan.
There are no state resources for us in Samoa that allow us to go to our own countries to pursue higher education, let alone research ours. It is my sincere wish that this state of affairs will be tackled by the present Heads of State and State. Finally, I would like to compliment Dr O'Brien on her outstanding work, which every Samoan should have.
I greet the remembrance of Ta'isi O. F. Nelson - a great Samoan.