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In 1863 all Samoa, including the islands of Tutuila and Manu’a which in 1900 became American Samoa, was under the rule, in whole or in part, of the paramount chiefs of the royal families. The people were not at any time united under the leadership of any one king, owing to some extent to the influence of the Europeans who had settled in the islands, or of the three great Powers, Great Britain, Germany and the United States, whose representatives in Samoa favoured one paramount chief or the other.
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Annual Report 1962. 1963
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Census Report, 25 Sept. 1961
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Steinberg, S.H. (1963). Western Samoa. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270923_19
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