Teaching Samoan Language & Culture
ANA Grant Provides Le Fetuao with New Tech Equipment for Teaching Gagana Samoa
Le Fetuao Samoan Language Center has purchased a brand new tech learning lab complete with iPads, laptops, a microphone and a keyboard. The purchase of the tech equipment was made possible through a language preservation and maintenance grant from the Administration for Native Americans (ANA). Le Fetuao recognizes that in…
Le Fetuao Joins Fellow Language Advocates at Summit
HONOLULU (July 7, 2014) – A language dies every 14 days. This sad truth was shared by Smithsonian Institute’s Dr. Michael Mason at the 2014 Native American Languages Summit held in Arlington, Virginia. In the audience of about 300 Native Americans and Pacific Islanders were four representatives from Le Fetuao…
Congressman Faleomavaega Meets with Le Fetuao Samoan Language Center
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Faleomavaega today announced that he recently met with Elisapeta Tuupo-Alaimaleata and Alice Malepeai Silbanuz of the Honolulu-based Le Fetuao Samoan Language Center in his Washington, D.C. office. Faleomavaega congratulated Le Fetuao for becoming the first Samoan language project in the nation to be funded by the…
Le Fetuao Samoan Language Preservation and Maintenance in Hawaii
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Seton Hall Reaches from the Northeast to the South Pacific
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Samoan Siapo Donated to Hamilton Library
In 2009 Hamilton Library received a donation of an original Samoan Siapo created by Mary Pritchard from Joan Griffis of Oregon. Siapo, often referred to as tapa, is a traditional mulberry bark cloth from Samoa. Learn more
Samoan Language Center Receives 3 Year Grant to Preserve Language
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Le Fetuao starts Spring semester on 1/11/14
Fa’amanatu atu – Mo i latou ua uma ona resitala, o le a toe amatalia a tatou A’oga Samoa i le Aso To’ona’i a sau nei. Ianuari 11, 2014. IFCC i le 10 i le taeao. **************************************** Reminder – For all registered participants, A’oga Samoa sessions will resume this coming…