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Following the death of elder statesman Mauga Moi Moi in 1935, the high chiefly title became vacant along with the county's chieftainship and the district's governorship. When the Mauga aiga could not agree upon a successor, the
Governor had to fill administrative posts and named High Chief Lei’ato to
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demanded and received the surrender of the pretender. Fagatogans and Auans embarked in their boats and set out for Pago Pago, and when they were closing in on the village, they were met by bullets and forced to retreat. Houses were burned in Aua and
Fagatogo, and women and children from Aua took
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villages voted for the Mailo, but each of the other county villages voted for its own village chiefs. Five years later, when the Mauga aiga chose
Sialega Palepoi to be their matai, and hence High Chief of Maputasi County, the county chieftainship passed naturally into his hands.
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Expenditure Survey (HIES) by the Commerce Department. It is the second-most populated county (after
256:, as well as surrounding villages. It was home to 11,695 residents as of 2000. Maʻopūtasi County is 6.69 square miles (17.3 km) The county has a 7.42-mile (11.94 km) shoreline which includes
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in 1250. During the Tongan rule, political opponents and defeated Samoan warriors were exiled to Pago Pago. Pago Pago and its surrounding settlements effectively functioned as a Samoan penal colony.
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village, Maʻopūtasi County as a whole and all its villages experienced a population decline from 2000 to 2010. In 2010, the county was home to 10,299 residents, down from 11,695 recorded at the
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Maʻopūtasi translates to “the only house of chiefs”. Pago Pago has been called O le
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be the district's governor. He decided to try free, “American-style” elections for the post of county chief, however,
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due to local rivalries. Mauga Lei chose to spend most of his time in
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declined to take any part in such proceedings. In the fa'aSāmoa,
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In the summer of 1892, a disturbance broke out around
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