Culture of American Samoa

.as is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for American Samoa.

flag of the United States territory of American Samoa

Samoans or Samoan people () are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the Samoan language. The group's home islands are politically and geographically divided between the Independent State of Samoa and American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States of America. Though divided by national border, the culture and language are the same.

Faʻafāfine (; ) are natal males who align with a third gender or feminine gender role in the Sāmoan Islands. Faʻafāfine are not assigned the role at birth, nor raised as girls due to a lack of daughters, as is often claimed in western media. Rather, their femininity emerges in early childhood, and Sāmoans recognize them as distinct from typical boys.

official government emblem of the U.S. territory of American Samoa

thumb|right|Three matai, the two older men bearing the symbols of orator chief status – the Fijian i-roi (Fly whisk)|fue (flywhisk made of organic [[sennit rope with a wooden handle) over their left shoulder. The central elder holds the orator's wooden staff (toʻotoʻo) of office and wears an ʻie toga, fine matting. The other two men wear tapa cloth with patterned design]] thumb|right|In the architecture of Samoa there are seating areas for matai and orators according to their status, rank, role and ceremony

book by Margaret Mead

hut in Samoan architecture