History of Samoa who brought the tools necessary to create the art of tatau, or in English tattoo, whence came the traditional Samoan "malofie" (also known as "pe'a" for men and as "malu" for women). The foundation of the cultural tradition of Samoa, or the fa'asamoa came with the rise of the warrior queen Nafanua. Her rule instituted traditions of the fa'amatai or local family and village and regional chiefly systems, a decentralized system. Her niece Salamasina continued under this system and their time is considered a golden age of Samoan cultural traditions. For a long period, a Tongan aristocracy ruled in Samoa.
Tahitian language Pō-mare (literally means 'night coughing'), under which his dynasty has become best known. By consequence "pō" (night) became "ruʻi" (nowadays only used in the Bible, pō having become the word commonly in use once again), but "mare" (literally cough) has irreversibly been replaced by "hota". Other examples include; Some of the old words are still used on the Leewards. Tahitian language Tahitian (autonym , part of , languages of French Polynesia) is a Polynesian language, spoken mainly on the Society Islands in French Polynesia. It belongs to the Eastern Polynesian group. As Tahitian had no written tradition before the arrival