ocr: Polynesians settled Samoa in about 1000 BC.Western rivalry after 1830 ledto the 1899 division ofthe islands into German Western and American Eastern Samoa. 01914 New Lealand occupies Western Samoa. Administers first for League ofNations, then for UN. 91962 Becomes first independent Polynesian nation. 91990 Cyclone Ofa leaves 10,000 homeless. Ay year later, Cyclone Val causes worse damage, laills 12. 1991 HRPP retains power in first election under universal adult suttrage; ;follows positive 199U referendum. Parliamentary term raised: - from three to five years.
