Samoan Independance

Samoan independence

The Struggle

In Samoa the people had realized that their country

didn’t belong to them anymore because countries

had been competing to see who can take control

over another country, but nobody from Samoa

had been invited they didn’t even know that

there was a meeting going on, Later on the berlin

deal decided to divide Samoa and split them up,

so Germany took the West Side of Samoa which

became a German Colony and the United States

took over the East Side of Samoa and now it is

called ‘American Samoa’

The Chiefs    

One of the leaders of Samoa had defeated

Germany once but Mata’afa (The chief)

decided to put all the weapons down and

hoped that the Europeans would allow the

people of Samoa to govern themselves,

which was happening in Tonga. The colonial

government didn’t want to leave people

alone but instead they made new laws

and Samoa only had a little amount of

control, so the people of Samoa wanted

their homeland back.

Influenza Epidemic

In 1918, 8500 people from Samoa

had died because of this flu spreading

around the globe and killing people,

this flu is similar to the Coronavirus

(or COVID - 19). Millions of people

had died from this flu and doctors

tried to help them and Quarantine is avoiding deaths

, but in New Zealand quarantine was not managed.

In the western Samoa there were people

who suffered one of the highest deaths in

the whole entire world, Samoa felt that the

New Zealand government let the Influenza in

and only helped out a little bit.