A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa Chapter 1 - The Elements of Discord: Native

In which the peculiar and intricate customs of Samoan chiefly authority and native society are unfolded with a discerning eye, revealing a land both wonderfully traditional and perplexingly modern in its struggles with power and property. We are shown a people bound by ancient ceremony and communistic family ties, where hospitality and war dance in uneasy tandem beneath the shadow of contested sovereignty.