Sapapaliʻi

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Sapapali{{okina}}i is a village on the north east coast of Savai{{okina}}i island in Samoa. It is the village where John Williams, the first missionary to bring Christianity to Samoa, landed in 1830.[https://books.google.com/books?id=Gt_RrCAkctwC&dq=Matautu+Fijian+Fagamalo&pg=PA42], Lagaga: a short history of Western Samoa By Malama Meleisea & Penelope Schoeffel Meleisea Sapapali'i is in the Fa'asaleleaga political district{{cite web |url=https://www.palemene.ws/wp-content/uploads/Electoral-Constituencies-Act-2019-Eng.pdf |title=Electoral Constituencies Act 2019 |publisher=Parliament of Samoa |date=31 January 2019 |access-date=11 September 2021}} and has a population of 896.{{cite web |url=https://www.sbs.gov.ws/digi/1-Preliminary%20count%20report%202016.V2.pdf |title=Census 2016 Preliminary count |publisher=Samoa Bureau of Statistics |date= |accessdate=11 September 2021}}

Sapapali{{okina}}i became the second Malietoa base in the district in 1750 when Malietoa Ti{{okina}}a married a woman from the village. Their son Malietoa Fitisemanu was the father of Malietoa Vaiinupo who received Williams in 1830.[https://books.google.com/books?id=-OqP2ZOR8dkC&dq=Sapapali%27i&pg=PA32] Democracy and custom in Sāmoa: an uneasy alliance by Asofou Soʻo, p.33. Retrieved 2 November 2009

Sapapali{{okina}}i is {{convert|8|km|mi|0}} north of Salelologa ferry terminal and township.

Archaeology

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In the 1970s, Gregory Jackmond carried out archaeological surveys inland from Sapapali'i. Jackmond, a Peace Corps in Samoa, surveyed a 20 hectare area with extensive pre-historic settlements. Jackmond later carried out field work at Palauli on the south east coast where the Pulemelei Mound is situated.[http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_91_1982/Volume_91,_No._1/Samoan_village_patterns:_four_examples,_by_J._D._Jennings,_R._Holmer_and_G._Jackmond,_p_81-102/p1?page=0&action=searchresult&target=] Samoan Village Patterns: Four Examples by Jesse D. Jennings, Richard Holmer and Gregory Jackmond, University of Utah, Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 91, No. 1, 1982. Retrieved 6 November 2009

References

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