Indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, settled by Austronesian/Lapita voyagers roughly 3,500 years before present; a foundational population in the wider settlement and cultural formation of Polynesia (fa'a Samoa social/chiefly system, oratory, tattooing).
Not an ending: Samoans remain the people of Samoa (and American Samoa). The map hands off to the partitioned German and American Samoa and their successors.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Samoans — the shape you scrub through changes in 950 BC · 600 BC.
19th-century ethnographic record of pre-Christian, pre-colonial Samoan customs, mythology, and social order.
Standard short history of Samoa from settlement through the colonial and independence eras.
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