Come on now. Why bring up Western Samoa ? What possible interest could the Kanaka Maoli have in Samoan business ? Well, let's recall that the Hawaiian Islands became a State of the United States of America in 1959. Some people voted against statehood. Why ?

Let's take a quick look at the international climate around 1959.

Here's a chronology of this time from the United Nations. Please look for Hawai'i.

Here's another chronology. Find Hawai'i.

Just two years after Hawai'i became a State of the USA, Samoa gained total independence ! Mohandas Gandhi's Concepts of Satyagraha showed up in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in Samoa, both Western and American, as the Mau a Pule Movement. Samoans worked and died to get their Independence.