anth103boceania

Brief but detailed history of the missionary endeavors in oceania specifically the Samoan islands.

Overview of the culture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoan_language Language

According to the Ethnologue, there are 6 total living languages in American Samoa, and there are 2 living languages in Samoa.

Pretty good article about the process of Samoans' movement to Hawaii and the mainland U.S. Focuses on the transformation of their culture, extended family, their chief and title system, and visiting patterns.

Here's a list of the languages in Oceania. There's a link to each individual language and something about it.

One of the first sites that came up on google, but a more thorough, more easily understandable explanation of the hypothesis. It's valuable because it provides citations supporting the hypothesis and other information directly from Sapir and Whorf