Unit 4
Vanuatu means ?
Our land
New Hebridians National Party movement
What date is known as the Black Saturday in Samoa?
28th December 1929
Name the first Prime Minister of the New Herbrides
Father Walter Lini
When did the New Hebrides become independent?
1980
Define Nationalism and explain an example
Being patriotic of your country. eg: Samoans forming up the mau resistance against NZ, Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III dying for Samoa, & the New Hebrides forming up the NHNP to resist British and French rule
Define petition
a formal written request signed by many peole
Who was the first Paramount chief (Alii Sili ) in Samoa?
Mataafa Iosefa
Samoans were colonized by Germany from ___ to ___
1900 - 1914
When did the ship Talune arrive?
1918
When did Namulauulu Lauaki get exiled?
1909
Explain what happened when Namulauulu Lauaki presented his petition to the leader of the Germans
He rejected it, and then sent Lauaki to exile in the Mariana islands
active opposition between people
About how much percentage of Samoans died during the influenza?
estimate of 22%
State two examples of how the Faalupega was changed by the German administration
1) the Germans omitted Tumua and Pule
2) Kaiser and his representatives was added into the faalupega
3) the German administration only adress repects to the Kaiser and not the Tamaaigas and the Samoans
Discuss 3 reasons why Samoans blame NZ for the outspread of the influenza epidemic which killed Samoan people
- the ship was not quarantined, Logan cut communication between them and Pagopago which offered medical help, also Logan stopped the women who tried to set up a temporary hospital to cure the sick people.
Name the first and the second German Governor / Kaiser who led the German administration here in Samoa.
Wilhelm Solf & Schultz
How did the NZ administration interferred with village affairs? Give Two examples
ban people from their villages when they commit a crime and stripped away matai titles from those who disobeyed their rules.
When NZ came and took the lands that used to be under DHPG (Germans), they renamed it as _________________?
The New Zealand Reparation Estates
Analyze 4 causes of the 2nd Mau movement
Logan was inexperienced, and ended up running the government as a military, he even maintained the same rules that the German administration established, Samoans were bound under so many rules, NZ were paternalistic towards Samoans, etc
Compare and contrast the Mau movement and a similar movement in the Pacific. Discuss two similarities and two differences.
Mau a Pule and Mau a Samoa movement versus the New Hebrides National Party movement
Similarities - both countries were under colonial rules, both formed up movements to resist colonial rules, both became successful (independent)
Differences - differ in time duration, Samoans struggled longer than Vanuatu, people were killed during the Mau fight for independence but no one died in Vanuatu.
Explain 4 reasons why the Mau a Pule was formed besides Lauaki's objections
The Samoans didnt like how the GErmans i) changed the faalupega, changed the government structure, excluded the Samoans from the Lands and Titles commission and how Mataafa's oo wasn't done according to SAmoans customs.
State the 3 requests/objections of the New Hebridians written in their petition to the United Nations Organization
1) that there should be one system of government
2) that the there should be no more influence of the colonial rules; Great Britain and France
3) that their independence should be discussed with UN guidance
State at least 4 examples of rules imposed by the NZ administration that angered the Samoans
Curfew was imposed on the Samoans from 10pm to 6am, Samoans couldnt change place of residence, Samoans were to submit to all orders, they werent allow to resist the NZ administration, and public meetings were not allowed
Discuss at least 4 activities done by the Mau members and the Samoans to resist the NZ administration
- refused to pay tax, abandoned NZ plantations, withdrew their kids from govt schools, avoided the court laws, volunteered to become prisoners, collected money to develop the Mau and how they protested downtown in Apia