The Mau movement was the name given to the popular nonviolent movement for Samoan independence from colonial rule. Mau means "opinion" or "testimony" in Samoan. The Mau had its origins, in 1908, in a dispute between the German colonial administration and the Malo o Samoa, or Samoan Council of Chiefs, over the establishment of a copra business owned and controlled by native Samoans.

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  • The Mau movement was the name given to the popular nonviolent movement for Samoan independence from colonial rule. Mau means "opinion" or "testimony" in Samoan. The Mau had its origins, in 1908, in a dispute between the German colonial administration and the Malo o Samoa, or Samoan Council of Chiefs, over the establishment of a copra business owned and controlled by native Samoans. The dispute led to the formation of a resistance movement on the island of Savai'i by Lauaki Namulauulu Mamoe, one of the chiefs deposed by the German Governor of Samoa, Wilhelm Solf. As well as deposing members of the Malo o Samoa, Solf called in two German warships as a show of strength. Faced with this demonstration of military force, and with the movement divided, Lauaki surrendered, and resistance faded. Lauaki and the other senior leaders were exiled to the German colonies in the Marianas (North West Pacific) where they were to stay until 1914, when New Zealand took over Samoa as part of its Empire duties at the outbreak of World War One.
  • Mau a Pule, auch Mau o Pule, ist die Bezeichnung für zwei Unabhängigkeitsbewegungen auf Samoa. Die erste richtete sich in den Jahren 1908 und 1909 gegen die deutsche Kolonialherrschaft, die zweite 1926 bis 1928 gegen das neuseeländische Völkerbundmandat über Westsamoa.
  • Maurörelsen (engelska League of Samoa, samoanska O le Mau) var en fredlig självständighetsrörelse på Samoa under 1920-talet.
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  • The Mau movement was the name given to the popular nonviolent movement for Samoan independence from colonial rule. Mau means "opinion" or "testimony" in Samoan. The Mau had its origins, in 1908, in a dispute between the German colonial administration and the Malo o Samoa, or Samoan Council of Chiefs, over the establishment of a copra business owned and controlled by native Samoans.
  • Mau a Pule, auch Mau o Pule, ist die Bezeichnung für zwei Unabhängigkeitsbewegungen auf Samoa. Die erste richtete sich in den Jahren 1908 und 1909 gegen die deutsche Kolonialherrschaft, die zweite 1926 bis 1928 gegen das neuseeländische Völkerbundmandat über Westsamoa.
  • Maurörelsen (engelska League of Samoa, samoanska O le Mau) var en fredlig självständighetsrörelse på Samoa under 1920-talet.
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  • Mau movement
  • Mau a Pule
  • Maurörelsen
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