Sāmoan

Cover of Āsiasiga iā Tinā

Āsiasiga iā Tinā

Jane Vaʻafusuaga

A children's picture book about a Sāmoan family set in New Zealand from the perspective of a palagi girl. A normal event in one culture may seem unusual to another culture. When pa… [+]

Cover of Fatu Feuʻu On Life & Art

Fatu Feuʻu On Life & Art

Shona Jennings

Fatu Feuʻu is an internationally recognised Samoan-New Zealand artist. He has been pivotal in shaping the interest in contemporary Pacific art globally and nurturing a generation o… [+]

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Freelove

Sia Figiel

"Girl can I give you a lift?" He smiled at me as if he were meeting me for the very first time. Inosia, a huge fan of science and Star Trek, accepts a ride to Apia from her fav… [+]

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A Gift For Ana

Jane Vaʻafusuaga

That first night in Sāmoa, Ana slept next to her grandmother on an old bed with sheets that smelled of mothballs. Now it was morning and as she opened her eyes, Ana saw that the ot… [+]

Cover of The Girl in the Moon Circle

The Girl in the Moon Circle

Sia Figiel

Often fiction allows authors to tell truths that otherwise would be too painful. Sia Figiel is uninhibited in The Girl in the Moon Circle, an observation of life in Samoa for perce… [+]

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O le Meaālofa mo Ana

Jane Vaʻafusuaga

O le pō muamua i Sāmoa, na momoe ai Ana ma lona tinā matua i luga o se moega tuāi lava, ma ʻaʻāfu i ni ʻieʻafu namu atigi mogamoga. Ua malama le taeao, ma e ala aʻe Ana, ua leai se… [+]

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Mua i Malae

Komiti o Tinā / Matua Atinaʻe

In 1980s Auckland there were many New Zealand Samoan children whose first language was not English and who struggled in mainstream classes. One small community of parents and their… [+]

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Samoa: Pacific Pride

Samoa: Pacific Pride introduces the Samoa islands - their geography, the history of the people and their way of life today. It reveals a proud society based on ancient traditions w… [+]

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The Samoans: A Global Family

The beauty of this Samoan proverb poetically describes The Samoans: A Global Family. From the tea estates of Sri Lanka to the deserts of the Sudan, from the Himalayas of Bhutan to… [+]

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Uncle Tino

Jane Vaʻafusuaga

James and Jessie are embarrassed by Uncle Tino’s old car and the way he honks the horn so loudly when he drives them to school. But when the Sāmoan culture group needs help to prep… [+]

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Visiting Grandma

Jane Vaʻafusuaga

A children's picture book about a Sāmoan family set in New Zealand from the perspective of a palagi girl. A normal event in one culture may seem unusual to another culture. When pa… [+]

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where we once belonged

Sia Figiel

Winner of the 1997 Asia/Pacific Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for fiction. In Where We Once Belonged Sia Figiel uses the storytelling traditions of Samoa to weave together experience… [+]