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American Samoa - History of the Islands - English
URL: http://www.amsamoa.com/tourism/history.htm

The exact date is unknown and will probably remain so forever, but, sometime around 600 years before the birth of Christ, Polynesians had already established themselves on the eastern tip of Tutuila near the present day village of Tula.

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American Samoa Islands - English
URL: http://loki.stockton.edu/~gilmorew/consorti/1zeasia.htm

American and Western Samoa comprises a series of Polynesian islands. American Samoa, a U.S. Territory since 1900, constitutes six islands; Western Samoa, known as German Samoa between the late nineteenth century and 1917, became an independent nation in 1961. It includes two main islands and many smaller ones. The Samoan islands have been inhabited for at least 2,400 years.

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AccessGenealogy - American Samoa's Genealogy Resource Center - English
URL: http://www.accessgenealogy.com/samoa/

This page is meant as a starting point for those interested in American Samoa genealogy. From here you can find links to a variety of information and records, including archives, libraries, bible, biographies, cemeteries, census, church, court, directories, emigration, immigration, gazetteers, land, property, maps, military, naturalization, citizenship, newspaper, periodical, probate, surname, taxation, vital, and voting.

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SAMOANET - American Samoa - History of the Islands - English
URL: http://www.samoanet.com/americansamoa/history/astahist.html

Who the first Polynesians were, who settled in what is now American Samoa, will probably never be accurately determined, but most archaeologists fix the date at around 600 B.C. These first inhabitants probably arrived in Tonga and the Samoas from the west, perhaps by way of Indonesia, the New Hebrides and Fiji.

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