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On the recordMarch 3, 2021
American Samoa voluntarily ceded these islands in exchange for the promise of protection of just these very cultural traditions and ways of life called our Fa'a Samoa.
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Donald McEachin
Virginia

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Highlighting the historical agreement for cultural protection in American Samoa.

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