SAMOAN GOVERNMENT RECORDS
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Riesenberg, Saul H.
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content: Saul H. Riesenberg papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1920(?)-1957
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-23, Series 19
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: In this series are included the records of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the Samoan government. They are arranged alphabetically by agency or office of origin, and within those subdivisions the arrangement is chronological. These records contain correspondence, reports, statistics, minutes, official decrees, resolutions, codes, etc. Some of the material is very old, going back to the earliest years of the century. These papers document the workings of the Samoan government. They reflect the tensions in the society as it tried to adapt to western ways. Among the memoranda is a particularly clear presentation of the subjects of land titles and land tenure prepared by the President of the Samoan Lands and Titles Court.