When Niue Amituanai was born in 1885, in Safune, Samoa, her father, Elisala Amituanai, was 23 and her mother, Utu, was 18. She married Uili Ieremia about 1905, in Upolu, Samoa. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 15 August 1967, in Sala`ilua, Palauli, Savai'i, Samoa, at the age of 82.
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Germany annexes Western Samoa, the U.S. takes over eastern Samoa and Britain withdraws its claim to the islands in accordance with treaty between Germany, Britain and the U.S.
New Zealand occupies Western Samoa during World War I and continues to administer it after the war by virtue of a League of Nations mandate (and a United Nations mandate after World War II).
U.S. troops stationed in Western Samoa during World War II, but no battles are fought on the islands.
Apparently from the name of the river in Africa. This seems, like many of the major rivers of the world, to have been originally named with a word meaning simply ‘river’. However, it may be a variant of Niall , respelled to coincide with the river name.
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