STONY BROOK, N.Y., March 5, 2012 â Stony Brook University Hospitalâs Trauma Center has been named one of four trauma centers in New York State with inpatient survival rates for trauma patients that are significantly above the statewide average, according to the latest report from the New York State Trauma System for 2007 to 2009.
1 Tonga: the Tongan tattoo is similar to the Samoan tattoo. 2  The Cook Islands: the tattoo designs of the Cook Islands were spread over the entire body. 3  Each tribe had its own tattoo sign. 4  French Polynesia (Tahiti): traditionally, only people of a high social ranking had tattoos.he Samoan women also had tattoos on their hands. Getting a tattoo in the traditional Samoan way is a real endurance test. Instead of needles, the skin is punctured using a pigâs tooth or sharkâs tooth. Not finishing a tattoo once it is started is a source of shame.
 The colors of the Tongan flag are red and white. The flag itself is red with a white rectangle in the top left corner; within that rectangle is a red cross.The cross symbo â¦ lizes Christianity, and in Christian symbolism, white stands for purity, and the red stands for the blood of Jesus Christ when he was crucified.ing George Tupou I ordered the cross on the Tongan flag symbolizing that he was giving Tonga to God. Thus the famous Tongan slogan, Ko e 'Otua mo Tonga ko hoku Tofi'a. (God and Tonga are my inheritance. Tongans (most) since then have been devout Christians.