A heartwarming moment in Vava’u, Tonga. Former Miss American Samoa 1989, Amy Aetui (Paea), joined Miss Pacific Islands Litara Ieremia Allen in a beautiful Siva Samoa during a break at the Tourism Ministers Meeting, attended by Director Taimalelagi Minnie Tuia. #PacificTourism #AmericanSamoa #Culture #COTM2025 | American Samoa Visitors Bureau

Storytelling through Siva Samoa. Music and dance serve as repositories that preserve our history, cultural traditions and genealogy. These art forms bring our land and ocean to life. I continue to learn how Pacific cultural arts can serve as a portal into the past, to inform the present and help me to better navigate my future as a Pacific person. Cultural arts has always been centred in life. Dance is the most authentic physical and spiritual representation of how much our islands, people, land