13 Mar 2009

Two Samoan villages to join Pago Pago Flag Day celebrations

11:19 am on 13 March 2009

Two villages from Samoa will participate in American Samoa's flag raising

ceremony on April 17th .

The villages of Satitoa and Falevao will entertain in the traditional singing and dancing festivities for the 109th flag day anniversary.

Satitoa will also race in the fautasi or long boat regatta.

Flag day is the territory's biggest holiday marking the first raising of the United States flag on local soil in 1900, when the eastern most groups of islands in the Samoa group became a US territory.