History
Samoan oral historical traditions state that Manu'a was a ruling centre of a large western Polynesian empire which included all of the Samoan archipelago, Tonga, Fiji and other nearby islands. The traditional capital of Manuʻa is the village of Taʻū, on the island of Taʻū. The Manuʻa Group is now a US Protectorate American Samoa. Samoa aligned it's interests with the U.S. in a Deed of Succession, signed by the Tui Manuʻa (supreme chief of Manuʻa) on July 16, 1904 at the Crown residence of the Tuimanuʻa called the Faleula in the place called Lalopua (from Official documents of the Tuimanuʻa government, 1893; Office of the Governor, 2004).
Cession followed the Tripartite Convention of 1899 that partitioned the eastern islands of Samoa (including Tutuila and the Manuʻa Group) from the western islands of Samoa (including ʻUpolu and Savaiʻi).
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