Towering, yet soft-spoken, Samoan Father Pale Schmidt is gently calling Samoans in Anchorage back to their spiritual homeland — the Catholic Church. Using the native language of the tiny Pacific ...

Healthy People 2010 emphasizes elimination of health disparity and improvements in anemia and iron deficiency (ID). The study purpose was to (1) determine the prevalence of anemia, ID and ID anemia ...

The Malepeai family moved from Samoa to San Francisco's Hunters Point neighborhood in search of the American dream. One day in November, they faced their worst nightmare. A teacher at Malcolm X ...

Though the American flag has waved over Pago Pago harbor since 1900, American Samoa, a cluster of islands near Australia and home to about 55,000 people, is the only U.S. territory where citizenship ...

Gabrielle T. Langkilde ’21, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a joint concentrator in Sociology and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays. Last ...

Severely disfigured from birth defects, “Baby Miracle” was given 24 hours to live. Now 8 months old, Miracletina Julie Nanai gurgles and guzzles like any ordinary infant. She nestles in her parents’ ...

On August 1, 2022, the Independent State of Samoa fully reopened its borders to international travelers. Samoa was one of the first countries to close due to the Covid pandemic, with no tourists able ...

Deep in a remote Samoan rainforest, field researchers have just confirmed something many biologists had quietly stopped ...

The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple ...