Wailekutu - The Samoan Settlement of Fiji

This documentary is by USP Wansolwara journalism students on the only Samoan settlement in Fiji. This documentary explores the culture and language changes in this community

[@tukimanda8872]

Fiji, Samoan and Tongan are our blood brothers.

[@jmjm1920]

True brother Early intermarriage TongaHa'amoa with Fisi and curly hair 😍 🙏

[@simionenauluvula7981]

I just came to know the Samoan settlement in wailekutu by watching this ♥️ this is so heartwarming realising how they've lived over the yrs. Hope to see this Settlement developed more just like any settlement or suburbs in Fiji..we are all citizens of Fiji and this is our home..God Bless ♥️

[@nikeeddie9430]

To all my Fijian brothers, as a Fijian we have to protect our Usos and our tokos, our Kiribati, Solomon's or whoever in the pacific live in fiji. Its our duty to protect all our cousins through the pacific live in fiji. God bless everyone.

[@shreyakumar1391]

Well said!

[@nikeeddie9430]

@@shreyakumar1391 . Kumar bula, its everyone's duty to look after everyone. Thats includes you and me.

[@lamberthall9409]

Seeeeee😁😁😄😄

[@Talei77]

It’s amazing to see a Samoan image but you hear Fijian voice, just goes to show it’s only language that separate us. 🇫🇯🇼🇸🇹🇴

[@Kopelani1]

I served my mission in Fiji in the early 90s and I met some of this Samoan community who are members of the LDS church there in Lami. There were also some other Samoan families around the Samabula area who had been there for generations. I love and miss Fiji. The ika vakalolo with pele leaf and dalo. Indian curry and Indian sweets at the market LOL. Isa Viti!!

[@josefamekemeke2931]

I didn't know about this Samoan Community at Wailekutu until I happened upon this video by accident. I feel that they should revive their language, culture, traditions, music and dance. Be proud of who you are. Talofa lava

[@koilafinau6425]

This is amazing, I never would've known there was a Samoan settlement in Fiji!! Hope to see more of your videos 👍👍 great stuff

[@shreyakumar1391]

Thank you! More on the way!

[@Mixedtribe16]

Bless YOU ALL SAMOAN living in FIJI, and all our Polynesian and all Fijian. BLESSINGS

[@wanshikakumar3817]

Thank you for the video😀it was very interesting to explore the one n only Samoan settlement in FJ.

[@juliwalker1974]

Awww, glad I accidently click on this. It's a wonderful story but my heart goes out to them to be so far away from Samoa. God bless them and keep them strong.

[@relaxationinsolitude2429]

Good to see you Lei and Susan..Still remember you from our USP days. Met two ladies at Suva market late 1980s who had a booth selling Fijian handicraft and they said to me if I would like to meet and talk to their elderly father at their booth. I went and the elderly Samoan man who had a traditional tatau was emotional when he saw me and I told him that I am a Samoa student from Samoa studying at USP. He said he came from Samoa in the late 50s, married to a Fijian, raised a family and never been back to Samoa.

[@nikeeddie9430]

Its so emotional to hia this story from my Usos family. Its your land uso please stay don't go anywhere. Just straight to the P.M. and tell him that's ur land. No drama at all.

[@viclegend2022]

I have fond memories of my one night in Suva - what a party i had -super friendly people

[@NasinuWarrior85]

We're all Fijians now. It's our home. This is Viti!

[@nikeeddie9430]

Yep,.thats right its there home and no one can take it away.

[@nicahs26]

Aww Wailekutu is such a beautiful place with heaps of beautiful people from Kiribas, Tuvalu, Rotuma, Samoa. So respectful and have a great sense of humor. Made lasting friendships with famillies within Veisari settlement, I have so much respect and love for them, we South Pacific Islanders are so blessed to have this connection with each other. Never realized there was a Samoan Settlement until now through this video. Thank you for this video and sharing it as well.Vinaka Valevu💖

[@shreyakumar1391]

Thank you for watching! Yes the Taule’ale’a family is originally from Veisari, married into the Charlie (Sale) family in Wailekutu! ❤️

[@timotchannel6919]

Wow Thankyou for this video. I have been to Fiji on four Occasions now and did not realise that there was a Samoan Community Settlement. I would hope to visit this community hopefully next year in March as I will be back in Fiji. GBless

[@shreyakumar1391]

Thank you!

[@Sam0anKnight07]

Talofae, good to see you Lei still doing well. I borrowed a ula nifo and palefuiono from him whilst living in Suva that year.

[@jopevea8260]

Not matter where you come from,this is our home Fiji.

[@vikashvineet4820]

Master Lei,u were my teacher when i was in high school at Holy Cross College (Taveuni) . Glad to see you after such a long time...

[@lynettesmp]

Isa, they would have come when Fiji was thriving I hope Fiji will return to her former glory. I never knew that there was a Samoan settlement, only knew of Tuvaluans settling near the area.

[@shreyakumar1391]

Wailekutu, and Veisari are the two places with Samoan and Tuvaluan population. The Taule’ale’a family in the documentary are Samoan/Tuvaluan - John Taule’ale’a from Veisari married into the Sale (now Charlie) family of Wailekutu 😊

[@vaimulipola4300]

Talofa malo le soifua ma le lagi e mama alofa atu mo outou uma from NZ

[@teanimoseese7260]

Hello talofa lava, my name is Teanimo Leilua Se'ese from Faletagaloa Safune Savaii. My aunty Malama married a Fijian chief and moved to Fiji and never came back. I do believe that the title Taule'ale'a are my relative who are my aunty Malama's children. I live here in Brisbane Australia, but always go back hope (Samoa) to see my family. Please comment if you are my relatives. Faamanuia le Atua ia outou uma i ina, hope to see you in Fiji some day. Tofa soifua, Faamanuia tele le Atua.

[@makariojopekavoa1134]

Interesting indeed. We need to look after each other. God bless us all.

[@gh7829]

Learn something new everyday. Thanks for sharing.

[@SinIsWack101]

My great grandmother is buried there and my mom and her siblings were all born there

[@esetapowell7662]

Thank You for this video post. I know there was also a Tongan community settlement there at one time. I recognize some faces of devout Catholics in this video. God Bless

[@nikeeddie9430]

Yep, even Tonga and the papuan brothers and Solomon's. I love my Solomon's and papuan cos when I look at them its so confusing because they just look like Fijian. All my love to brothers n sisters in the pacific.

[@sprite478]

Beautiful prayers to you and your family.

[@Timuia_ipaepaetele685]

God bless you this was a lovely story and sad they are far from the motherland alofa Aku mo oukou Uma lava.

[@shreyakumar1391]

Thank you ❤️

[@nikeeddie9430]

Suga, fiji is there mother land right now.

[@Sam0anKnight07]

Awesome video guys. I used to live in Suva in 2010 and used to hang out in Wailekutu with some of the Samoans there. I wonder if Mrs Whippy/Nippy (sorry I've forgotten her name) is still there? She shocked the hell out of me when she started speaking Samoan to me haha she was close to her 90s I believe. And she told me how she left Savaii when she was 19 or so for Fiji.

[@shreyakumar1391]

I will ask around for her. 😌

[@joshtovo7636]

@@shreyakumar1391 Thanks Shreya Kumar for sharing this lovely video with us and keep the good job 🌺❤🙏🏼

[@maikatupua8228]

@@shreyakumar1391 Hi there where has your search led to??

[@maikatupua8228]

@@shreyakumar1391 Hi there where has your search led to??

[@melranamu2895]

Isa stopped over at their quarters in Channel College, Samoa back in '93 for a cuppa & biscuit... Malo Lava Master & Sue. Good to see you with your family & community in Fiji. GB & Tofa'a 🙏

[@dharmenkumar9323]

Nice to here this wonderful stories.

[@youtubeuser2195]

Great video

[@silivenusivutikalulu7633]

Awww nice to see Susan and Joseph. I remember us kids swimming in the river

[@stevenchandra8967]

Vinaka vakalevu 🇫🇯 fiji

[@thiagrey2170]

Nice.very nice👍

[@andrewwaisi5689]

There is a Bougainville settlement in Fiji too during blackbirding days!

[@nikeeddie9430]

Andrew waisi, my Melanesian brothers and sisters was there long time ago, they belong to fiji too.

[@andrewwaisi5689]

Thank you! I know they are Fijians now but the blood from my ancestors still flows.

[@nikeeddie9430]

@@andrewwaisi5689 absolutely no one can take that away, as Fijian i just want them to keep their ancestors strong. Because today most lost islanders already lost their identity or ancestors.

[@shreyakumar1391]

Thank you for sharing! 💛

[@aperaruapeeta4309]

The whole pacific is related we all travelled between islands.

[@pacificmixture]

Yes my family lives there, Ah-Chang/Toelupe represent

[@tomasikalougata2442]

O ! If only our Fijian leaders in the past think of their end of life’s and our end of life’s today : Fijians would have had a very different life’s altogether . Our blood brothers and sisters from Samoa from Tonga from the Solomons from Papua New Guinea from Vanuatu from Tokelau from Niue from Rabi from Papua New Guinea from Kiribati and other pacific Islands would make Fiji a real religious Island Nation . Unfortunately Satan has broken the chain of togetherness and love for one another as blood brothers and sisters . All we have to do now as Native Fijians is to love one another think of one another give to one another care for one another and have a warm of feelings to each other . Let’s just show love to one another as Fijian People . God has brought in the very people who don’t believe in him and now they are the head of Fijians and not the tail . You all have to stand up together with our blood brothers and sisters to fight them so that we as Fijians and Tongans Samoans Papua and New Guineas Solomons Vanuatu Tokelau Rabi Kiribati and other Pacific Islanders in Fiji right now to take back what we have lost . Pray as you never prayed before and fast as you never fast before . Jesus is the only way truth and the life . Repent all your sin and follow Jesus Christ . Please ! People forget about the things of this sinful world , and think only of the things that God has prepared for those who keep his commandments and the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ . Think my blood brothers and sisters . All our blood brothers and sisters from all over the Pacific Islands should be given a proper land so that they can live in it peacefully happily and joyfully for the rest of their life’s and our life’s . People people Remember ! The Land belongs to God . The whole world belongs to God ,you and I belongs to God . We are nothing . Totally nothing . Repent now before it’ll be too too late .

[@emosimcgoon8353]

Lovely

[@filipoqaloiwasa8343]

Bula Master Lei .

[@elisapetaseumanutafa1098]

Thanks for your video, Never know there Samoan people live in Fiji,

[@kumulsfan8090]

Oh there's many even outside this settlement!! People just don't know.

[@agnessae10]

❤❤❤🇼🇸🇼🇸🇼🇸

[@dohnlabalaba9470]

Malo lava. Manui fa'a-fetai.

[@squidjames7735]

Shout out to the Sanerive family.

[@ttlfmag3507]

Dad's family Sanerivi were missionaries in fiji earlier in the 19th century. We have lost contact with them.

[@luamanukirisome9514]

Talofa e, alofa atu mo outou uma Samoa in Fiji

[@myfobtofabjourney9289]

WOW first time I heard of this, very interesting ❤️❤️

[@retisimanu3080]

The Peters are the descendents of Tupuai from the aiga Sa Tusani of Savaia and the Lalogafau family of Matautu Lefaga

[@malakiwright5524]

Talofae manuia lava outou uma I Ina I fiti

[@Repent4JesusChrist]

Talofa'e,faamalo ma faafetai ana leseigoa lenei polokalame se manu e le iloa atu outou tagata Samoa ua tausag'a o outou aumau i laufanua o le malo o Fiti,faafetai le agalelei foi o tatou uso i Fiti o loo outou nonofo fealofani iina,ae ua tatau ona saili e e matutua i se auala poo se fesoasoani mai le malo o Fiti poo le ekalesia se latou fesoasoani e toe fagufagu ai tu ma le aganuu ae maise le gagana faasamoa ole a toeititi mou malie atu iina,talosia ia ae vave maua se faaolataga aua alo ma fanau o loo faimai,ia manuia ma alofa tele atu,iinei i 🇼🇸

[@jmjm1920]

Fisi in Tonga is flowers when Ancient Tongan Navigators discovered Fisi like flowers floating in waters Tefisi Tahifisi 'Otulau o Tonga ☺

[@Rick-jh7di]

No they didnt😂😂😂 Fiji is discovered by Fijians. GTFO with you Tongan Supremacist bullshit somewhere else. Stop commenting on all Fiji history videos and spreading your Bullshit.

[@kulima7391]

Before chiefs of the past in Fiji ruled these islands the land was empty for centuries before anyone set foot on these island That’s how it happened in my culture too the Samoan Culture There were other people who came first before the Fiji people NOT Samoan people They were island people too Fiji and Samoan people came about the same time because of the inter marriage they had with each other I’m talking about all of the Pacific Islanders not just the ones I just mention Many of the history of my people THE POLYNESIAN people is hearsay

[@kulima7391]

Unless there’s something you’re people is not saying Fiji the old Fiji people when chief use to ruled The Fiji islands many of the part of Fiji is not to clear Many of the history of Fiji in the first century is not known my advice to these people just follow the animals like their forefathers have done Because many of the animals are found in Fiji is not from Fiji Remember Fiji is group of islands

[@kulima7391]

Is very easy thing to say it but leaders in ths community are very sad it’s been years nothing has changed Nice thing to hope for things BUT TO GET THINGS DONE YOU SUPPOSED TO ACT ON IT In my opinion these Samoan in this community is stupid Your in a different country, respect the law of the land especially the tribals inter action but at the same YOU MUST CONSISTENT PRACTICE YOUR OWN CULTURE TOO So far from what I’ve been seen from this community they’re not practicing their culture

[@shreyakumar1391]

Yes, they’re not. Because while the land was leased by Samoan leaders and established as a Samoan community, most of these families have married into other ethnicities. You could say it’s a place of convergence of ethnicities. But whatever ties they have with Samoa, and whatever they are able to retain, they do, and oh my, don’t they cherish it.

[@fidowtangitau3378]

Mate Maa Tonga most powerful people in the Pacific

[@totoo1624]

But youse bend over to the British lolz

[@harpar1028]

I WAS BORN THERE 1953

[@melranamu2895]

Isa stopped over at their quarters in Channel College, Samoa back in '93 for a cuppa & biscuit... Malo Lava Master & Sue. Good to see you with your family & community in Fiji. GB & Tofa'a 🙏