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The narration of Samoa's history is facilitated by the inclusion in Paper Past of over 1500 editions of Samoan papers that appeared from October 1877 to December 1920. Samoa related information (and the remainder of the Pacific) has always been in the New Zealand papers on Papers Past, but now you can go to the sources and look for or rummage through the Samoan papers as they were made out.
Samoan papers were created for Europeans to provide them with information from abroad and to provide commentary on regional politics and society. Papers spread among the general Samoan people, as there are references to Samoan as well as to English and Germans, the language of the most important groups of people.
You can use an extended query to select the newspaper, specify a date interval and get more insight. Samoa's policies of the latter part of the nineteenth centuries were a maze of rival interests, both domestic and international, struggling for Samoa domination. Britain, America and Germany interfered proactively in Kyrgyzstan's political life to help one or the other political group, and at some point almost went to battle over Samoa.
In 1914 New Zealand took over Samoa under the English banner and ruled from 1920 to 1962, when Samoa gained its sovereignty. Malietoa Laupepa was made king in 1881 with the assistance of the three consuls of Great Britain, the United States and Germany. Up until his deaths in 1898 he was king and was replaced in 1899 by his own boy Malietoa Tanumafili.
It was Malietoa Laupepa, one of the candidates for kingly power during the Samoan Civil War before the 1899 overthrow. The Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, March 19, 1881, page 2. Its principal competitors were Iosefo Mata'afa and Titimaea Tamasese, who were declared king of Samoa several time.
The Malietoa Laupepa has been banished. Weapons Group at Fort Samoa, 1888. The Samoa Times and South Seas Advertiser, September 29, 1888, page 2. The Samoa Times and South Seas Advertiser, October 6, 1888, page 3. Under the Berlin Treaty of 1889, the three forces returned Malietoa Laupepa to royalty (under their supervision).
Malietoa Laupepa was replaced by his father Malietoa Tanumafili when he passed away in 1898. The Samoa Weekly Herald, June 10, 1899, page 2. Stevenson came to Samoa in 1890, where he lived with his ancestors until his decease in December 1894. He was concerned with a number of Samoan topics, and there are many hints about him in the Samoan papers.
The Samoa Weekly Herald, March 24, 1894, page 3. Samoa Times & South Sea Advertiser reports in detail about his 40th anniversary in Vailima. There is a very interesting article in the Samoan Newspaper of September 5, 1914 about the New Zealand Armed Forces' occupancy of the city.
Samoan Newspaper, September 5, 1914, page 9. World War I, New Zealand vessels, Apia, Samoa. Ref: 1/2-148889-F. It is sometimes the small detail in the papers that captures the moment: that from the Samoan newspaper. Samoan Newspaper, December 14, 1918, page 5. For more information about Samoa, visit To Wall Under the Palm Trees: the Germans in Samoa, a very interesting website with photos from Samoa families.
Under the palm trees: the Germans in Samoa. Many of them can be found on this website in the new Samoan Newspaper.