American Samoa

English thumb|right|American Samoa highlighted in the Pacific, alongside the rest of the United States of America Pronunciation en /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən səˈməʊ.ə/ UK en /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən səˈmoʊ.ə/ US en en-us-American Samoa.ogg US Proper noun en Q16641en archipelago/and/overseas territory c/United States in the Pacific Ocean Territory of American Samoa. It is distinct from Samoa (formerly: Western Samoa). en April 29, 1899 Friends' Intelligencer https://archive.org/details/sim_friends-intelligencer_1899-04-29_56_17/ Philadelphia LVI 17 0362-8965 10359090 329 https://archive.org/details/sim_friends-intelligencer_1899-04-29_56_17/page/329/ 2 SECRETARY James G. Blaine, on April 11, 1889, instructed the American Samoa commissioners at Berlin that the plan of governing natives without their consent was "not in harmony with the established policy of this government." en June 16, 2021 Jennifer Sinco Kelleher American Samoa culture plays role in US citizenship ruling https://web.archive.org/web/20210616050115/https://apnews.com/article/american-samoa-cultures-government-and-politics-ecb28f949187601ae97e65ae2d7ff7de 16 June 2021 w:AP News In a decision citing American Samoa cultural traditions, those born in the U.S. territory shouldn’t have citizenship automatically forced on them, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.American Samoa is the only unincorporated territory of the United States where the inhabitants are not American citizens at birth.Drawing on the views of the American Samoa people is one of the more gratifying aspects of the ruling, said Michael Williams, an attorney representing the American Samoa government, which intervened to oppose the lawsuit.“It is also vindication for the principle that the people of American Samoa should determine their own status in accordance with Samoan culture and traditions,” he said. en Synonyms Am. Sam. US Samoa Derived terms en American Samoan Translations US overseas territory in Oceania Afrikaans: af Amerikaans-Samoa Arabic: ar سَامُوَّا اَلْأَمْرِيكِيَّة f Breton: br Samoa Amerikan Bulgarian: bg Америка́нски Само́а m Catalan: ca Samoa Nord-americana f Cherokee: chr ᎠᎺᎵᎧ ᏌᎼᎠ Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 美屬薩摩亞 Měishǔ Sàmóyà Danish: da Amerikansk Samoa Dutch: nl Amerikaans-Samoa Esperanto: eo Samoo Usona, eo Usona Samoo Estonian: et Ameerika Samoa Finnish: fi Amerikan Samoa French: fr Samoa américaines f-p Georgian: ka ამერიკის სამოა, ka აღმოსავლეთი სამოა German: de Amerikanisch-Samoa n Greek: el Αμερικανική Σαμόα, el Αμερικανικές Σαμόα Hebrew: he סָמוֹאָה הָאָמֶרִיקָנִית Samoa ha-Americanit Hindi: hi अमेरिकी समोआ Hungarian: hu Amerikai Szamoa Interlingua: ia Samoa American Irish: ga Samó Mheiriceá m Italian: it Samoa Americane f-p Japanese: ja アメリカン・サモア Amerikan-Samoa Korean: ko ^미국령 ^사모아 Lao: lo ອາເມຣິກັນຊາມົວ Latin: la Samoa Americana f Latvian: lv Amerikāņu Samoa f Macedonian: mk Амери́канска Само́а f Maltese: mt Samoa Amerikana Is-Samoa Amerikana Norman: nrf Samoa Améthitchain m Norwegian: no Amerikansk Samoa Persian: fa ساموآی آمریکا Polish: pl Samoa Amerykańskie n Portuguese: pt Samoa Americana f Romanian: ro Samoa Americană f Russian: ru Америка́нское Само́а n, ru Восто́чное Само́а n Samoan: sm Amerika Sāmoa, sm Teritori o Amerika Sāmoa Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Америчка Самоа Latin: sh Američka Samoa Spanish: es Samoa Americana f Swedish: sv Amerikanska Samoa Thai: th อเมริกันซามัว Turkish: tr Amerikan Samoası Ukrainian: uk Америка́нське Само́а n, uk Схі́дне Само́а n Vietnamese: vi Samoa thuộc Mỹ See also Appendix:Countries and territories of the world Further reading pn