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Samoan culture

Index Samoan culture

The traditional culture of Samoa is a communal way of life based on Fa'a Samoa, the unique socio-political culture. [1]

141 relations: Afa Anoaʻi Jr., American football, American Samoa, Anesthesia, Anglicanism, Arafura Games, Architecture of Samoa, Assemblies of God, Association football, Australian Football International Cup, Australian rules football, ‘aiga, ‘ie toga, Bahá'í Faith, Bahá'í House of Worship, Baptists, Barkcloth, Beach fale, Birthday, Biscuit, Brian Lima, Buddhism, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Catholic Church, Censorship in Samoa, Chicken, Christianity, Church (building), Church of the Nazarene, Coconut, Coconut cream, Coir, Colocasia esculenta, Coming of Age in Samoa, Congregational church, Constitution, Corned beef, Crayfish, Culture, Culture of the United States, Dance, Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed, Drum, Dwayne Johnson, Earth oven, Encarta, English language, ESPN, Fa'a Samoa, ..., Fa'ataupati, Faith, Family, Fijians, Fish, Freedom of religion, Full Gospel, Funeral, Hibiscus, Hinduism, History of Samoa, Human rights in Samoa, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jewellery, Judaism, Kava, Kava culture, Kilikiti, Lavalava, Leaf, Malietoa Tanumafili II, Margaret Mead, Maulu'ulu, Methodism, Modern dance, Money, Morus (plant), Music, Music of Samoa, National Football League, Netball, New Zealand national rugby union team, Ornament (art), Pacific Islanders rugby union team, Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance, Pat Lam, Peter Maivia, Pig, Polynesia, Professional wrestling, Public domain, Puletasi, Rice, Rikishi (wrestler), Roman Reigns, Rosey (wrestler), Rugby league, Rugby union, Rugby union in Samoa, Rugby World Cup, Samoa, Samoa 'ava ceremony, Samoa Joe, Samoa national Australian rules football team, Samoa national football team, Samoa National Provincial Championship, Samoa national rugby league team, Samoa national rugby union team, Samoa Rugby Union, Samoa rules, Samoan language, Samoan plant names, Sarong, Sasa (dance), Savai'i, Seashell, Seaweed, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Sonny Siaki, Swains Island, Tapa cloth, Tattoo, Taualuga, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Headshrinkers, The Wild Samoans, Tokelauan language, Turtle, Umaga (wrestler), Volleyball, Wedding, Woman, World Council of Churches, World Rugby Pacific Challenge, World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup, Yokozuna (wrestler), 1991 Rugby World Cup, 1995 Rugby World Cup, 1999 Rugby World Cup, 2000 Rugby League World Cup. Expand index (91 more) »

Afa Anoaʻi Jr.

Afa Anoaʻi Jr. (born October 6, 1984) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Ring of Honor.

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American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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American Samoa

American Samoa (Amerika Sāmoa,; also Amelika Sāmoa or Sāmoa Amelika) is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Samoa.

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Anesthesia

In the practice of medicine (especially surgery and dentistry), anesthesia or anaesthesia (from Greek "without sensation") is a state of temporary induced loss of sensation or awareness.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation.

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Arafura Games

The Arafura Games is a unique, inclusive multi-sport event where athletes with a disability compete in the same program as able-bodied athletes.

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Architecture of Samoa

The architecture of Samoa is characterised by openness, with the design mirroring the culture and life of the Samoan people who inhabit the Samoa Islands.

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Assemblies of God

The Assemblies of God (AG), officially the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, is a group of over 140 autonomous but loosely associated national groupings of churches which together form the world's largest Pentecostal denomination.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Australian Football International Cup

The Australian Football International Cup (also known as the AFL International Cup) is an international sport competition in Australian rules football contested by amateur players only.

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Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground.

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‘aiga

‘Aiga is a word in the Samoan language which means 'family.' The aiga is the family unit of Samoan society and differs from the Western sense in that it consists of more than just a mother, father and children.

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‘ie toga

A ʻie tōga is a special finely woven mat that an important item of cultural value in Sāmoa.

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Bahá'í Faith

The Bahá'í Faith (بهائی) is a religion teaching the essential worth of all religions, and the unity and equality of all people.

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Bahá'í House of Worship

A Bahá'í House of Worship, sometimes referred to by the name of mašriqu-l-'aḏkār (مشرق اﻻذكار), an Arabic phrase meaning "Dawning-place of the remembrances of God", is the designation of a place of worship, or temple, of the Bahá'í Faith.

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Baptists

Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).

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Barkcloth

Barkcloth or bark cloth is a versatile material that was once common in Asia, Africa, Indonesia, and the Pacific.

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Beach fale

A beach fale is a simple thatched hut in Samoa.

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Birthday

A birthday is the anniversary of the birth of a person, or figuratively of an institution.

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Biscuit

Biscuit is a term used for a variety of primarily flour-based baked food products.

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Brian Lima

Brian Pala Lima (born 25 January 1972) is a Samoan former rugby union player who was inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame in 2011.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Affairs (DRL) is a bureau within the United States Department of State.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Censorship in Samoa

The United States Department of State Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Samoa states that: In May 2006, the film The Da Vinci Code was banned from local television stations in Samoa, as well as the country's only cinema.

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Chicken

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Church (building)

A church building or church house, often simply called a church, is a building used for Christian religious activities, particularly for worship services.

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Church of the Nazarene

The Church of the Nazarene is an evangelical Christian denomination that emerged from the 19th-century Holiness movement in North America.

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Coconut

The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the family Arecaceae (palm family) and the only species of the genus Cocos.

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Coconut cream

Coconut cream is very similar to coconut milk but contains less water.

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Coir

Coir, or coconut fibre, is a natural fibre extracted from the husk of coconut and used in products such as floor mats, doormats, brushes and mattresses.

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Colocasia esculenta

Colocasia esculenta is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms, the root vegetables most commonly known as taro.

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Coming of Age in Samoa

Coming of Age in Samoa is a book by American anthropologist Margaret Mead based upon her research and study of youth – primarily adolescent girls – on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands.

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Congregational church

Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches; Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.

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Constitution

A constitution is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed.

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Corned beef

Corned beef is a salt-cured beef product.

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Crayfish

Crayfish, also known as crawfish, crawdads, crawldads, freshwater lobsters, mountain lobsters, mudbugs or yabbies, are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are related; taxonomically, they are members of the superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea.

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Culture

Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies.

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Culture of the United States

The culture of the United States of America is primarily of Western culture (European) origin and form, but is influenced by a multicultural ethos that includes African, Native American, Asian, Polynesian, and Latin American people and their cultures.

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Dance

Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.

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Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family.

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Dodi Fayed

Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Mena'em El-Fayed (عماد الدين محمد أنور شاكر عبدالسيد الفايد), better known as Dodi Fayed (15 April 1955 – 31 August 1997), was the son of Egyptian billionaire Mohamed El Fayed.

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Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.

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Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972), also known by his ring name The Rock, is an American actor, producer, and semi-retired professional wrestler.

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Earth oven

An earth oven, ground oven or cooking pit is one of the most simple and ancient cooking structures.

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Encarta

Microsoft Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft Corporation from 1993 to 2009.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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ESPN

ESPN (originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture owned by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%).

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Fa'a Samoa

Fa'a Samoa in the Samoan language means The Samoan Way, and describes the socio-political & traditional-customary way of life of the Samoan culture.

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Fa'ataupati

The Fa'ataupati is a dance indigenous to the Samoans.

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Faith

In the context of religion, one can define faith as confidence or trust in a particular system of religious belief, within which faith may equate to confidence based on some perceived degree of warrant, in contrast to the general sense of faith being a belief without evidence.

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Family

Every person has his/her own family.mother reproduces with husband for children.In the context of human society, a family (from familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage or other relationship), or co-residence (as implied by the etymology of the English word "family" from Latin familia 'family servants, domestics collectively, the servants in a household,' thus also 'members of a household, the estate, property; the household, including relatives and servants,' abstract noun formed from famulus 'servant, slave ') or some combination of these.

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Fijians

Fijians (iTaukei) are a nation and ethnic group native to Fiji, who speak Fijian and share a common history and culture.

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Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

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Freedom of religion

Freedom of religion is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance without government influence or intervention.

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Full Gospel

The term Full Gospel is a term often used to describe the doctrinal teachings of Pentecostalism and Charismatic Christianity, evangelical movements that originated in the 19th century.

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Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony connected with the burial, cremation, or interment of a corpse, or the burial (or equivalent) with the attendant observances.

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Hibiscus

Hibiscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or a way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent.

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History of Samoa

The Samoan Islands were first settled some 3,500 years ago as part of the Austronesian expansion.

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Human rights in Samoa

Samoa, formally the Independent State of Samoa, has a population of approximately 188,000 people.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity.

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Jewellery

Jewellery (British English) or jewelry (American English)see American and British spelling differences consists of small decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks.

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Judaism

Judaism (originally from Hebrew, Yehudah, "Judah"; via Latin and Greek) is the religion of the Jewish people.

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Kava

Kava or kava kava or Piper methysticum (Latin "pepper" and Latinized Greek "intoxicating") is a crop of the Pacific Islands.

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Kava culture

Kava cultures are the religious and cultural traditions of western Oceania which consume kava.

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Kilikiti

Kilikiti is one of several forms of the game of cricket.

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Lavalava

A lavalava, also known as an 'ie, short for 'ie lavalava, is an article of daily clothing traditionally worn by Polynesians and other Oceanic peoples.

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Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.

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Malietoa Tanumafili II

Malietoa Tanumafili II (4 January 1912 – 11 May 2007), also called Susuga, was the Malietoa, the title of one of Samoa's four paramount chiefs, and the head of state, or O le Ao o le Malo, a position that he held for life, of Samoa from 1962 to 2007.

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Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Maulu'ulu

The Maulu'ulu is an indigenous dance performed by the Samoan people.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Modern dance

Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance, primarily arising out of Germany and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Money

Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a particular country or socio-economic context.

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Morus (plant)

Morus, a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, comprises 10–16 species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, growing wild and under cultivation in many temperate world regions.

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Music

Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.

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Music of Samoa

Traditional Samoan musical instruments included a fala, which is a rolled-up mat beaten with sticks.

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

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Netball

Netball is a ball sport played by two teams of seven players.

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New Zealand national rugby union team

The New Zealand national rugby union team, called the All Blacks, represents New Zealand in men's rugby union, which is known as the country's national sport.

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Ornament (art)

In architecture and decorative art, ornament is a decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object.

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Pacific Islanders rugby union team

The Pacific Islanders is a combined international rugby union team that played from 2004 to 2008.

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Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance

The Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance (PIRA) was set up in 2002 as a basis of co-operation between the Fiji, Samoa and Tonga Rugby Unions.

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Pat Lam

Patrick Richard Lam (born 29 September 1968) is a rugby union coach and former player, who represented Samoa.

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Peter Maivia

Fanene Leifi Pita Maivia (born Fanene Pita Anderson; April 6, 1937 – June 12, 1982) was a Samoan American professional wrestler better known as Peter Maivia.

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Pig

A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the even-toed ungulate family Suidae.

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Polynesia

Polynesia (from πολύς polys "many" and νῆσος nēsos "island") is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.

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Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling (often shortened to pro wrestling or simply wrestling) is a form of sports entertainment which combines athletics with theatrical performance.

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Public domain

The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Puletasi

The puletasi or puletaha is a traditional item of clothing worn by Samoan, Tongan, and Fijian girls.

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Rice

Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice).

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Rikishi (wrestler)

Solofa F. Fatu Jr. (born October 11, 1965) is a Samoan American professional wrestler, best known under the ring names Rikishi (shortened from Rikishi Phatu) and Fatu with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he is a one-time Intercontinental Champion, two-time World Tag Team Champion, and one-time WWE Tag Team Champion.

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Roman Reigns

Leati Joseph "Joe" Anoaʻi (born May 25, 1985) is an American professional wrestler and a former professional gridiron football player, who is part of the Anoaʻi family.

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Rosey (wrestler)

Matthew Tapunu'u Anoaʻi (April 7, 1970 – April 17, 2017) was a Samoan-American professional wrestler, best known for his time on the independent circuit under numerous ring names, and his time in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he competed as Rosey.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Rugby union in Samoa

Rugby union in Samoa is the country's most popular sport.

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Rugby World Cup

The Rugby World Cup is a men's rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams.

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Samoa

Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa (Malo Saʻoloto Tutoʻatasi o Sāmoa; Sāmoa) and, until 4 July 1997, known as Western Samoa, is a unitary parliamentary democracy with eleven administrative divisions.

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Samoa 'ava ceremony

The Ava Ceremony is one of the most important customs of the Samoa Islands.

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Samoa Joe

Nuufolau Joel Seanoa (born March 17, 1979), better known by his ring name Samoa Joe, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE and performing on the SmackDown brand.

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Samoa national Australian rules football team

The Samoan national Australian rules football team and represents Samoa in the team sport of Australian rules football.

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Samoa national football team

The Samoa national association football team (Sāmoa soka au) represents Samoa in association football and is controlled by the Football Federation Samoa, the governing body for football in Samoa.

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Samoa National Provincial Championship

The National Provincial Championship is the highest level of domestic rugby union football competition within Samoan rugby and is a stepping stone for local players into international rugby union.

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Samoa national rugby league team

The Samoa national rugby league team represents Samoa in rugby league football and has been participating in international competition since 1986.

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Samoa national rugby union team

The Samoa national rugby union team (also known as Manu Samoa) is governed by the Samoa Rugby Union, which is owned by the affiliated Samoa Rugby Union.

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Samoa Rugby Union

The Samoa Rugby Union is the governing body of the sport of rugby union in Samoa.

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Samoa rules

Samoa rules is a game derived from Australian rules football and rugby union that is occasionally played in Samoa.

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Samoan language

Samoan (Gagana faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa – IPA) is the language of the Samoan Islands, comprising the Independent State of Samoa and the United States territory of American Samoa.

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Samoan plant names

These are some Samoan plant names in alphabetical order in the Samoan language and their corresponding descriptions in English.

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Sarong

A sarong or sarung (Malay:, formal Indonesian:, colloquial Indonesian:, Tamil: சரம், Arabic: صارون, Sinhalese: සරම; meaning "sheath" in Indonesian and Malay) is a large tube or length of fabric, often wrapped around the waist, worn in South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, East Africa, and on many Pacific islands.

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Sasa (dance)

Sasa is a Samoan word for a particular group dance.

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Savai'i

Savaii is the largest (area 1,694 km2) and highest (Mt Silisili at 1,858 m) island in Samoa and the Samoan Islands chain.

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Seashell

A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer created by an animal that lives in the sea.

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Seaweed

Seaweed or macroalgae refers to several species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae.

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Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in Christian and Jewish calendars, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ.

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Sonny Siaki

Sonny Siaki (born July 23, 1974) is a retired American professional wrestler.

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Swains Island

Swains Island (Samoan: Olosega; Tokelauan: Olohega) is an atoll in the Tokelau chain.

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Tapa cloth

Tapa cloth (or simply tapa) is a barkcloth made in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, primarily in Tonga, Samoa and Fiji, but as far afield as Niue, Cook Islands, Futuna, Solomon Islands, Java, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Hawaii (where it is called kapa).

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Tattoo

A tattoo is a form of body modification where a design is made by inserting ink, dyes and pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment.

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Taualuga

The Taualuga is a traditional Samoan dance, considered the apex of Samoan performance art forms and the centerpiece of the Culture of Samoa.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), often informally known as the Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian, Christian restorationist church that is considered by its members to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ.

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The Headshrinkers

The Headshrinkers were a professional wrestling tag team in the World Wrestling Federation that consisted of Fatu and Samu.

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The Wild Samoans

The Wild Samoans was the professional wrestling tag team of Afa and Sika in Mid-South Wrestling, the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).

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Tokelauan language

Tokelauan is a Polynesian language spoken in Tokelau and on Swains Island (or Olohega) in American Samoa.

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Turtle

Turtles are diapsids of the order Testudines (or Chelonii) characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield.

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Umaga (wrestler)

Edward Smith Fatu (March 28, 1973 – December 4, 2009) was an American Samoan professional wrestler.

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Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.

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Wedding

A wedding is a ceremony where two people are united in marriage.

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Woman

A woman is an adult female human being.

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World Council of Churches

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide inter-church organization founded in 1948.

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World Rugby Pacific Challenge

The World Rugby Pacific Challenge, formerly the IRB Pacific Rugby Cup, is an annual rugby union football tournament held in Oceania since 2006.

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World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup

The Pacific Nations Cup is an international rugby union competition currently held between three Pacific nations: Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.

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Yokozuna (wrestler)

Rodney Agatupu Anoai (October 2, 1966 – October 23, 2000) was an American professional wrestler who is best known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) where he wrestled under the ring name Yokozuna.

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1991 Rugby World Cup

The 1991 Rugby World Cup was the second edition of the Rugby World Cup, and was jointly hosted by England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France; at that time, the five European countries that participated in the Five Nations Championship making it the first Rugby World Cup to be staged in the northern hemisphere, with England as the host of the championship game.

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1995 Rugby World Cup

The 1995 Rugby World Cup was the third Rugby World Cup.

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1999 Rugby World Cup

The 1999 Rugby World Cup was the fourth Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial international rugby union championship.

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2000 Rugby League World Cup

The 2000 Rugby League World Cup was held during October and November of that year in Great Britain, Ireland and France.

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Cuisine of Samoa, Culture of Samoa, Dance in Samoa, Samoan art, Samoan cuisine, Samoan society.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoan_culture

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