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Mau movement
The Mau was a non-violent movement for Samoan self-government. An early Mau a Pule under the orator chief Lauaki Namulauʻulu Mamoe opposed German rule in 1908–1909, and the movement revived in the 1920s against New Zealand rule in Western Samoa, where police killed its leader Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III and others on 'Black Saturday' in 1929. A smaller Mau in American Samoa protested US naval rule.
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