Samoan Americans are Americans of Samoan origin, including those who emigrated from the United States Territory of American Samoa and immigrants from the Independent State of Samoa to the United States. Samoan Americans are Pacific Islanders in the United States Census, and are the second largest Pacific Islander group in the U.S., after Native Hawaiians.
Entrance to the Polynesian Cultural Center, in Laie, Hawaii, home to one of the highest proportions of Samoan American residents.
Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district. She is one-quarter Samoan.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, actor and wrestler. He is half Samoan.
Samoans or Samoan people 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. Though divided by national border, the culture and language are the same.
Samoan canoe performers
Samoan chief and family, c. 1914
Samoan family in 2003
Samoan man carrying two containers over his shoulder