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  2. Samoans - Wikipedia

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    Samoans or Samoan people (Samoan: tagata Sāmoa) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the Samoan language.The group's home islands are politically and geographically divided between the Independent State of Samoa and American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States of America.

  3. Samoan Americans - Wikipedia

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    There are 365 Samoan-origin people in Prince William County, Virginia, and a Samoan church in Alexandria. [30] There is a community of Samoans in Liberty County, Georgia. In Texas, there is a Samoan community prominent in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Euless (0.5%), and a Samoan church in the city of Killeen (0.3%).

  4. History of American Samoa - Wikipedia

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    Olosega native village 1896. The islands of Samoa were originally inhabited by humans as early as 1000 BC. After being invaded by European explorers in the 18th century, by the 20th and 21st century, the islands were incorporated into Samoa (Western Samoa, Independent Samoa) and American Samoa (Eastern Samoa).

  5. List of Hispanos - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Hispanos, both settlers and their descendants (either fully or partially of such origin), who were born or settled, between the early 16th century and 1850, in what is now the southwestern United States (including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, southwestern Colorado, Utah and Nevada), as well as Florida, Louisiana (1763–1800) and other Spanish colonies in what is ...

  6. History of Samoa - Wikipedia

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    Chromograph map of Samoa - George Cram 1896. The Samoan Islands were first settled some 3,500 years ago as part of the Austronesian expansion.Both Samoa's early history and its more recent history are strongly connected to the histories of Tonga and Fiji, nearby islands with which Samoa has long had genealogical links as well as shared cultural traditions.

  7. Akokisa - Wikipedia

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    Around the 1750s the Akokisa were divided into five village groups. Some Akokisa people entered the San Ildefonso Mission in 1748-49 but left in 1755. [2] That mission was abandoned and replaced by Nuestra Señora de la Luz Mission, built in 1756-57 on the Trinity River, to serve the Akokisa and Bidai tribes. [2]

  8. History of Texas - Wikipedia

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    Indigenous people lived in what is now Texas more than 10,000 years ago, as evidenced by the discovery of the remains of prehistoric Leanderthal Lady.In 1519, the arrival of the first Spanish conquistadors in the region of North America now known as Texas found the region occupied by numerous Native American tribes.

  9. Hispanics and Latinos in Texas - Wikipedia

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    A Guide to Hispanic Texas (U of Texas Press, 1996) Richardson, Chad, and Michael J. Pisani. Batos, bolillos, pochos, and pelados: Class and culture on the South Texas border (U of Texas Press, 2017). Rivas-Rodriguez, Maggie. Texas Mexican Americans and Postwar Civil Rights (U of Texas Press, 2015}. Stewart, Kenneth L., and Arnoldo De León.