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![Ethan Falaniko is flanked by his parents for Senior Day at Bartlett High in Alaska. [USA Today]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ethan%20falaniko_54031%20copy.jpg?itok=gL83vC77 "Ethan Falaniko is flanked by his parents for Senior Day at Bartlett High in Alaska. [USA Today]")
The coaches at Bartlett High in Anchorage, Alaska, jokingly refer to running back Ethan Falaniko as Clark Kent, because of the black thick-rimmed glasses that have become a family trademark among he and his two brothers.
But so far this season, Falaniko has been more like Superman.
The senior leads...
![Cliff Cole said the patterns used in Samoan tattoos were thousands of years old. [MAHVASH ALI/STUFF]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/cliff%20cole%20copy.jpg?itok=cyvd88vO "Cliff Cole said the patterns used in Samoan tattoos were thousands of years old. [MAHVASH ALI/STUFF]")
Want to read indigenous literature? Don't pick up a book.
That's because native stories are not always written down on paper, award-winning novelist Witi Ihimaera says.
Indigenous tales were mostly expressed through art such as tattoos, tapa cloth paintings, kapa haka and waiata, he said.
For New...
![Samoan award film director, Queen Muhammad Ali (middle) with her husband Hakeem Khaaliq (left) and her mother Marie Olioli Leiato Tuiasosopo (right) following an interview at the Samoa News office on Tuesday. [photo: FS]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Queen%20Ali%200095.jpg?itok=lDsrt4SY "Samoan award film director, Queen Muhammad Ali (middle) with her husband Hakeem Khaaliq (left) and her mother Marie Olioli Leiato Tuiasosopo (right) following an interview at the Samoa News office on Tuesday. [photo: FS]")
Samoan award wining film director, Queen Muhammad Ali, is looking at next year, to kick start the Social Wellness Hub on the east side of Tutuila, serving the entire community, with many local residents already embracing the project, which includes various art forms.
Ali was named as of one of the...
![Pictured are CEO of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) Kamana'o Crabbe, LFSLC executive director Elisapeta Tuupo Alaimaleata; host for WIPCE in Canada, Rebecca Jamieson; LFSLC Communications director Alice Malepeai Silbanuz with taupou Trinity Naunautaiga Silbanuz. [courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Le%20Fetuao_4208.jpg?itok=jsAn-tN1 "Pictured are CEO of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) Kamana'o Crabbe, LFSLC executive director Elisapeta Tuupo Alaimaleata; host for WIPCE in Canada, Rebecca Jamieson; LFSLC Communications director Alice Malepeai Silbanuz with taupou Trinity Naunautaiga Silbanuz. [courtesy photo]")
Le Fetuao Samoan Language Center (LFSLC) represented Samoa at the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WIPCE) that was held in Toronto Canada July 24-28.
Le Fetuao SLC was selected from among thousands of presentation requests to share the unique implementation of incorporating...
![(WS) Dr John Ah Ching.jpg Salausa Dr. John Ah Ching, a former head of the OB/GYN unit at the LBJ Medical Center and now Samoa's Associate Minister of Health, was recently awarded the Pacific Society for Reproductive Health (P.S.R.H.) President's Medal. [photo: courtesy]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Dr%20John%20Ah%20Ching.jpg?itok=CP9FOK1w "(WS) Dr John Ah Ching.jpg Salausa Dr. John Ah Ching, a former head of the OB/GYN unit at the LBJ Medical Center and now Samoa's Associate Minister of Health, was recently awarded the Pacific Society for Reproductive Health (P.S.R.H.) President's Medal. [photo: courtesy]")
It has been six years since Salausa Dr. John Ah Ching retired from the LBJ Medical Center and moved to Samoa but his dedication to healthcare has not been swayed.
Last week, Salausa, Samoa's Associate Minister of Health, led a delegation of six clinician representatives to the 12th biennial meeting...
![[Hawaii News Now file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/poke.jpg?itok=SAQ9yi0t "[Hawaii News Now file photo]")
It has never been easier to get poke, the marinated raw ahi tuna that is the unofficial food of Hawaii, on the mainland. You’ll find the dish— pronounced po-kay — in Minnesota, Indiana and landlocked Colorado. There’s poke from Pittsburgh to Peoria, Ariz. You can buy poke kits in grocery stores,...
![[courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/A%E2%80%99oga%20Samoa%20in%20LV.jpg?itok=eCz7os2q "[courtesy photo]")
Etena Fou Church in Las Vegas, Nevada opened their very first A'oga Samoa to all the Samoans in the area, and it has been very successful.
Tama Ailao and Doris Tofaeono along with Samuelu Tialavea head the program.
Pictured is the church group with some of the youngsters participating in the A’oga...
![Mervin Tano, Kapiolani Community College KIKSAPA NASA TCU-ELO program intern, Haskell Native American University, Lawrence Kansas. [courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Mervin%20Tano%20copy.jpg?itok=yFJ41r70 "Mervin Tano, Kapiolani Community College KIKSAPA NASA TCU-ELO program intern, Haskell Native American University, Lawrence Kansas. [courtesy photo]")
Mervin Tano, a native Hawaiian student from Kapiolani Community College, was accepted by the 2017 NASA Summer Research Experience for Tribal College Undergraduates. As interns to the NASA funded project, students undergo intensive training in climate science, geospatial applications for science...
![[Courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/HOS%20Sam.jpg?itok=zUOwMxkI "[Courtesy photo]")
Today, Filifilia and I stand before you, to greet you on this new morning in our lives. It is also a new morning in the history of Samoa. We salute you for the great honour that you have done us throughout the last ten years. We pay tribute to the many people who have helped make our journey as...
![Mariah Limala'u Rae Naea is a Samoan girl who will be representing the US in the Miss Teen Continents 2018 pageant next year. She is the daughter of Dorothy Meaole, and granddaughter of Ketesemane Meaole and the late Afano Limala'u Lemuga Meaole of Auto. [photo: courtesy]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Miss%20Teen%20US%20continents.jpg?itok=ESucVZ4W "Mariah Limala'u Rae Naea is a Samoan girl who will be representing the US in the Miss Teen Continents 2018 pageant next year. She is the daughter of Dorothy Meaole, and granddaughter of Ketesemane Meaole and the late Afano Limala'u Lemuga Meaole of Auto. [photo: courtesy]")
Mariah Limala'u Rae Naea's story is inspiring and definitely worthy of being shared.
The reigning Miss Teen U.S. Continents is the daughter of Dorothy Meaole, and granddaughter of Ketesemane Meaole and Afano Limala'u Lemauga Meaole who sadly passed away at age 45 in 1994 due to colon cancer....