Sunday and Family - American Samoa Culture and Ocean Conservation Film Series
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2016
- Film synopsis: Two American Samoans, High Chief Togotogo Sotoa and Rex Lokeni, an untitled man, share parts of their culture that bring families and communities closer together.
In American Samoa, chiefs give family members tasks to benefit their family. When family members earn respect from their families, their chief can grant them a title such as paramount chief, high chief, and high talking chief. An untitled man works to earn a servings chief title to a high chief in hopes of getting a high talking chief title.
Executive Producers - Jean-Michel Cousteau, Gene Brighouse
Producer - Jim Knowlton
Filmed and edited by Jim Knowlton
Music - Doug Shirley - "Silver Threads" and "Nahenahe"
Special thanks to:
National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation
Office of National Marine Sanctuaries
This film is the first film of the American Samoa Culture and Ocean Conservation Film Series. The stories in these short films are told by Americans Samoans who share their passion for their unique culture and for protecting their ocean resources for future generations.
About National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa
The National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa is located in the cradle of Polynesia’s oldest culture and is thought to support the greatest diversity of marine life in the National Marine Sanctuary System, including a wide variety of coral and other invertebrates, fishes, turtles, marine mammals and marine plants. The sanctuary protects extensive coral reefs, including some of the oldest and largest Porites coral heads in the world, along with deep water reefs, hydrothermal vent communities, and rare marine archaeological resources, and also encompasses important fishing grounds, the southernmost point in the United States, and waters surrounding one of the world’s smallest atolls. The sanctuary is also the only true tropical reef within the National Marine Sanctuary System, and is the most remote location within that system. NOAA co-manages the sanctuary with the American Samoa Government and works closely with communities adjacent to the sanctuary, all within the context of Samoan cultural traditions and practices.
americansamoa.noaa.gov/
About Ocean Futures Society
Our mission is to explore our global ocean, inspiring and educating people
throughout the world to act responsibly for its protection, documenting
the critical connection between humanity and nature, and celebrating the
ocean's vital importance to the survival of all life on our planet.
www.oceanfutures.org/ - บันเทิง
When people live this way, God is happier, and people are united, blessed and free!! This is what God wants every nation to be.
This is the normal and natural way for humans to live. You plant your own food you have the sense of togetherness with the family you learn to love earth and respect God and nature. you appreciate all the beautiful things that this planet earth gives us. Thank you for this wonderful video.
Seeing your umu makes me so hungry. I long for my return to my beautiful Samoa. There is no place like home. Thanks for sharing your home with us.
Very much the same all over the Polynesian Islands ee.Very rich culture , Sunday the same ,the day of Going to churches ,eat n rest , prepared the whole meal for the day. It's God day , Thanks for sharing from your neighbor island , TONGA ,Love the Samoan ,our Pacific Islander's.
What a beautiful and traditional culture. Would have love to grow up with family values like they have.
Thank you! You should go visit the islands and learn more about our culture.
Kirah Manusamoa I feel very uneducated and slow right now. With what’s going on with North Korea, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands, im just learning about this US territory, American Samoa. That’s so embarrassing. I live in the mainland, in the state of South Carolina, and we didn’t even get taught about all of the part of the US territories when I was in school. The land here and the scenery looks so beautiful here
Nella J that’s because American Samoa is miles and miles away from USA. Hawaii is closer to USA. American Samoa is an American territory except their main islands who are right next to them are independent called, Samoa. Samoa is their independent country, American Samoa is under USA.
It's truly unique. I moved to American Samoa when I was 11 and came back to America when I was 18 forever changed.
Yea and having these ghetto people live next to you is SO much fun. Stay the fuck in samoa.
What a beautiful culture!
Talofa lava Samoa. Much love to your beautiful people. Bula from Fiji bula vinaka loloma yani❤👍
It is a great culture lived there for a few years and yes Sunday was a great quiet restful day centered around Christ. Tafuna pulega frisco
Magaia le umu a gai taule'ale'a. Malo lava fa'afetai! I missed the umus on Sundays and missed the traditions. There's nothing like the Samoan cultural! I'm proud to be Samoan!
Faapena foi Lou lanona uso ua ou misia foi le umu
I love the way of living and food ....
Wow... remind me of the good old days, this is wat we use to do every Sunday..good life...respect your eldest especially your parents and you will be blessed...
God bless all Samoans and our beautiful culture,thanks for sharing your video.
miss The island tradition, Love this👊❤👊
This is therapeutic. Love from Melbourne , Australia!
I wish I was a Samoan
A fascinating look at your culture, thank you so much. I wish I could live like that.
Nothing like Samoan food..satisfying..especially on sunday koogai..i want to go back to Samoa one day..
To me this whole culture is beautiful
I love Samoan Cultures like in my native country the Philippines.
Heiii... this is THE ROCK places.. i love samoans..😁👍
Pro One Indonesia the rock’s mother is actually from Samoa, which is their independent country. American Samoa is not Samoa just different islands and the fact that American Samoa is under USA. Samoa is not. Same people though.
_ OneLove yup exactly
This is one of the best explanations I have seen on TH-cam. Thank you and God bless!
Love the culture!
This is very beautiful, my granddaughter samoan and since she 18 now she with her family and it's big too lovely
what a beautiful life
Faafetai lava mo le video.
This video humble me because it brings back memories when I grew up in American Samoa. I left Samoa when I was 16 1/2 years old ,moved to America and now I have a family of my own with my half palagi kids. We sometimes forget where we came from or how we grew up that makes you who you are today.
The Samoan way without a doubt is one of the toughest way of life but very humble lifestyle that no American life ever measured up to.I used to blame and hate my dad for a long time for being too rough and abusive to us when we were young and now having a family of my own I look back and I appreciate it now how my dad was racing us to make me a better person and a strong independent individual because of the way my dad taught me. I know now and realize it that that's the only way my father know how to race and discipline us when we were kids. I thank him for bringing us to America for better life despite all the tough life that we had in Samoa. I will forever grateful for the effort and the determination that my father strive to bring us to America for better life after our mother passed away. I will share this video with my American Wife(Palagi) and my half Samoan kids forever . Thank you again for sharing this video because this will bring back good memories and to remind myself who I am and where I'm from.
I want to live with and like those people they are like real family HEAVEN
Love from India 😍💐😇💛
God bless you, beautiful people!
I miss American Samoa, I was there early this year for my beautiful mothers funeral I'll go fishing next time I visit.
Great video! Im Samoan but never been to Samoa always wanted to visit Samoa
If you havent gone yet, it be good if you did to visit your culture.
Im not Samoan Talofa, Kia ora, Kia Orana.
@@quintinmarsters1609 that's right lol I'm samoa
Guy29 NYC bro u need to visit samoa to learn some experience of your culture lol God bless
love somoa
I miss the aroma of fresh cook ulu, palusami, taoipu, and taro from the umu on Sunday mornings.
Also the fagu miki with sliced onions. Yummy yummy.
From Mae Sapolu Brown--Windsor in Hawaii
Pohnpei and American samoa share the same culture...respect ...
Fisi i le gaifi le kalo a le kamaloa. Mea ga ka'u o le Samoa polo. just kidding. No swimming on Sundays only on Mondays.lol.
Beautiful Video. Proud to be Samoan.
Luv the video
Very nice culture. I love it
Lovely
I enjoyed your video ..
very cool
Miss my beautiful home💙🤙
Ofu faalelei le palusami haha! Malo Kit!
I wish I could live there.
i think samao almost the same with my ethnic BATAK in Indonesia
nope nothing alike
wow...im from Micronesia and these are quite similar things we do here as well :) nice video
Jefferson Murphy Paulis I'm Malay and we look the same and get along the same way. We call it the spirit of gotong royong where everyone comes together and get things done together, eat enjoy and have a good time together with families and close friends and this strengthen the bond we have as families. We have been urbanised but the spirit stays the same. Greetings from Singapore.
Thanks Malay for your encouraging words. It is indeed a beautiful family-oriented culture we share :) Hope we continue to strengthen it by teaching, encouraging and showing our young ones the importance of our culture by making a good living example for them. Greetings from Pohnpei, Micronesia :)
@Andre Knowledge357 there nothing alike
@Andre Knowledge357 bruh thats only a theory and theorys can be wrong do we exist in your pre european history because you dont exist to us in our pre european history if were the same those stories would have been past down from generation to generation but theres nothing
@Andre Knowledge357 you aint a geneticist or archaeologists so dont act like you know what your talking about plus they said we come from taiwan not Philippines or indonesia
I am glad the men are cooking
But if you were my chick , you would be the one slaving over the stove biarch.....
He is one of my high school classmate. Junior Lokeni.
POWERFUL " FAAUTU MACE TAVALE HI AMAZING FOOD INCREDIBLE RIGHT .THANKS YOU BROTHER SISTER CHILDREN'S! ●Castano BROWN FAMILY.
Village in North eastern India has the same culture
Not many from here knows about Samoans but when they see they can relate
Yes especially in Mizoram , Nagaland & Manipur....
Lie Indian are witches
Just love this culture , mate . I want to die there.
Samoa all day cheeehoo lol lof my Alaska 💪🇼🇸
Great Video Daphne Cotton BRILEY)😍🎂●BROWN FAMILY SALUTE. THANKS YOU!
Bloods in the house
Wow...that's the same exact thing that they do in Tonga.
I was being sarcastic...
Robert Reid and I’m your dad! #Kefe
Tongans ate Samoans, Samoans ate Tongans, we all ate the first White people that set foot on our lands. Now let's just all get along. lol
Alfred Iamanu tonga is the oldest site in polynesia a pottery was found in nukuleka its now proven tonga is rhe cradle of polynesia sit the fuck down samoan kefe
BoxCuber 😂😂 is that why Tonga means south? Se kefe aua ke pepelo Lou Shit..
Forgive my ignorance but what does it mean when a man is called and "untitled man?" Are there "untitled women" too? Thank you.
Eileen Schuller it means that they want to be anon
Eileen Schuller it means the workers pretty much the lowest rank in the family they must do all works around the village not so much for the ladies
Untitled means the men have not been bestowed a chief title from the village/family and as stated by someone else, are the lowest ranking members of the village/family. However both untitled men and young women contribute to helping out, men are in charge of cooking however as the umu is done outside and women are generally in charge of serving the food and cleaning up.
@Eileen, it's not ignorance at all, it's an honest and educational question. TD was right, it means they have not received a Chief title yet. It's usually the men with no titles as well as young men and boys that do the chores and cooking during a family get together.
Everybody contributes to the well being of the entire family. Just because you're the Chief doesn't mean you get to sit on your ass and do nothing.The Chief has the most important job of making sure everyone is taken cared of and delegating family duties. "Untitled Men" are the backbone of Samoan Society.
Island Time is a thing because you had to time your umu so you attend/leave church and get home right on time for it to be ready. 🤔🧐
I am from falenui
🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙!!!
lil rayfords o a filipigo lou pipilo
is the fish and pork, cleaned out, of guts, etc, or cooked whole?
Lol Definitely cleaned. Don't think you can eat anything cooked with guts intact.🤮🤮 Where did you think the hot rocks went when they were putting them in🤣
May I ask how can a foreigner lives in America Samoa and sustain his living through work please?
Looks like Wallis and Futuna ( French Colonies) .....Their life is like ours as Pacific Islanders ( New-Caledonia, Vanuatu, Solomon Island, Papua New Guinea, West Papua, Fidjii and so on...)
I've NEVER met a Samoan I didn't like.
Wanna visit Samoan island
🙏🙏🙏🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Mirip ke di indonesia
Kesini gara gara film Hobbs and shaw
Do american samoan and western samoa are living the same culture and traditions? If it is the same why did they separated by nation? Sorry , im not samoan and love to know about the cultures over there
American Samoa was part of the Samoan Islands. Long story short, colonisation happened like everywhere else, the US took American Samoa while I think German (colonizing power in Samoa at the time) held on to main Samoa. Now Samoa is independent but American Samoa is still a colony of the US.
American Samoa was "NEVER" a Colony, NEVER EVER a Colony!!!! It's a U.S territory, never was, and never will be a Colony. SE UFA!!!!
you and your people seem like great people. what do your people think white people. Americans. an honest answer would be appreciated. you will not hurt my feelings
They only feel and see what they want but do not acknowledge the painfull truth behind their true history I believe ..
i dont speak for the many but growing up i was raised to believe samoans don't care what color u are, if u are a quest we prepare a welcome feast..white black orange or purple, we are family oriented. but if u want to go the oposite route we can happily show u the way
Rix Max bwahahaha “the opposite route”, good shit
" DUMBASSES" Did I hurt your feelings? lol
I love you max my man,, right on!!!
Untitle? ?
It means men with no chief titles in Samoa.
The rock
i didn't know it's part of America.
We are not a part of the Continental U.S.A. We are 3000 miles from the Hawaiian Islands. Half of Samoa is called
American Samoa because we've been a Territory of the United States since the year 1896. The other half was under
Germany then New Zealand rule until it gain its Independence in 1963 and is now The Independent country of Samoa.
@@alfrediamanu2954 thank i like culture
What was the Samoan spiritual belief system before the white people imposed Christianity on the people?
Beautiful singers...like the Phillipino people.
R K They praise the sea the sky and their Gods were their surroundings. I think they are still living like that Til now, but Christianity and different religions has a big part right now due to the invasions.
They praise Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour, not the sea and the gods, that's the olden days when samoa use to praise to the sea to their god called tagaloa not today, Samoa believe in God The Almighty
I said the exact same thing bro is crazy how indigenous cultures took on the white man’s religion smh
i think the greeks are more family orientated.. but samoa is up there aswel with other cultures
Now I know how Russell Wilson get that looks from
Jasian LeRice Russell Wilson is black tho lol
+avilik13 he's half black
Jasian LeRice both his parents are black and he's not Samoan lol
@@avilik13 I think it was your comments that I saw on that video about Polynesian Migration, where we come from. If it's you then my hats off to you for all that research and knowledge. It was educational and pretty Interesting learning.
@@alfrediamanu2954 as a samoan my parents say that we are descended from fiji and some papua new guinea that's why we have fat noses😂😂
the place was looks like in the philippines?
Justin Antonio How can be Philippines fuck. when Samoa a darker skin and Island food. You Philippines eat Chinese noodles hahahaha 😅😆😂😃😄
Justin Antonio se ufa
Diamonds DiamondsDiamonds Sole...a'e...lol
RATU Junior tui fowheel uce.. fuck this guy brah
@@laionemeihetahikoulakanate9515 Why so rude they were only saying it looks similar. Makes sense since Philipines is made up of islands. Mafaufau muamua ae lei tautala i na upu ua too negative please🙏 send love, not hate ❤️
I’m marshalleese
They are living just fine,why shouldn't i in Europe
Where is the ladies?
The Umu is more so the Aumaga's job.
@@TM686K what is aumaga sorry
They are all Filipino how come?
Until
Stay in samoa.
Talofa I am a Kid
Looks like austronesian in south east asia.. its bad their being colonized fot religion.
The sabbath is Saturday not sunday why do they follow papal Catholics.
It seems unnatural to impose church on them
Uncivilized people from Savage Island this is what Supreme Court think about us Samoan
To bad the sabbath is Saturday Sunday's is a catholic thing wake up!.
Who else is here because of Asuelu from 90 day fiance
Was the Christianity original religion that samoans followed??? Isn't it the religion of usurpers, the colonial masters??? When these people will go back to their roots, instead of clinging onto the westerners ideology of religion, tradition, beliefs and practices????
Omg, is this for real?aint no respect. Lol lol lol psssssst.
Fake samoanss
tariu afoa your family is fake
Oa fake Lou kefe?! Polo a Lou kamā🖕
heheheee its a doc for da palagi - wheres your sense of humour lol
@@kaasesagapolutele2471 Sole, makua ke le lega kala. lol
Yeah fake samoans hahaha