Status of American Samoa and its citizens

 

American Samoa's status as “unorganized” means that Congress has not passed an Organic Act to create American Samoa or the American Samoa Government.

 

8 FAM 308.2 Acquisition [of Citizenship] by Birth In American Samoa and Swains Island

 

SCOTUSBlog, Tuaua v. U.S.

 

American Samoa Bar Association, "Cession of Tutuila and Aunu'u"

 

Bell, v. Comm'r , 278 F.2d 100 (4th Cir. 1960)

 

Cody Sargeant, "Misplaced Fear-Tua Ua And The False Link Between Citizenship And Equal Protection", 27 Rev. L. & Soc. Justice 145 (2018)

 

Melanie van der Elsen, "The Paradox of Liminality: American Samoa’s Attenuated Sovereignty in the Twenty-First-Century American Empire", 12 Aspeers 27 (2019)

 

Convention of 1899

 

American Samoa statute, Personal Rights, Duties, And Remedies, Title 41, Citizenship, Alienage And Immigration

 

Closing documents for Two Department of the Interior Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigations involving allegations regarding public corruption in the U.S. Territory of American Samoa, 2010

 

Ian Falefuafua Tapu, "Who Really is a Noble?: The Constitutionality of American Samoa’s Matai System", 24 UCLA Asian Pacific American L.J. 61 (2020)

 

Ross Dardani, "Citizenship in Empire: The Legal History of U.S. Citizenship in American Samoa, 1899-1960", 60 American Journal of Legal History 311 (2020)

 

On 17 January 1878 the United States signed the Samoan Treaty with a number of tribal chiefs, thereby receiving the right to use the strategic port of Pago Pago on the island of Tutuila. The Senate gave its approval on 30 January. The Berlin Conference of 1889, involving the Americans, the British, and the Germans, resulted in an accord establishing a tripartite protectorate over the islands (14 June). On 2 December 1899 a new treaty reallocated the islands among the three powers. It was ratified by the Senate on 16 January 1900.