When I was in elementary school, I would dance around our living room, somewhat bragging to my sister to the tune of The Lion King's "I Just Can’t Wait to Be King" that "I just can’t wait to be chief.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Samoan Heritage Week festivities are underway in Hawaii. To celebrate, the Honolulu office of the American Samoan Government is hosting a week-long program, including a ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Alex Rose has a story to tell, and you can see it on the growing tapestry that adorns his powerful body. Rose, a discus thrower from Grand Rapids, represented Samoa in the ...

No matter that the temperatures are in the 80s; with 98 percent of American Samoa’s population being Christian, Christmas is a spectacular time of year. In two weeks of programming, everyone in ...

John Poynton was a well-known British and mostly liked painter in Samoa. I knew him from my time in Peace Corps. He laughed when he told me this. His home, a hovel at the foot of mountain on which ...

Helen Anderson discovers a Pacific paradise where island culture is the main attraction. THE PAGES of the hymn book are limp and the church smells of damp shoes and rain, with a hint of chook and ...

Pull up to the Samoan Christian Fellowship in Des Moines on certain Saturdays and you’ll smell the aroma of grilled chicken and pork ribs rubbed with a “super secret” sauce and spun over an open flame ...