TALOFA AND WELCOME!

The Amerika Samoa Humanities Council is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent non-profit organization based in Pago Pago, American Samoa.

For 25 years, we have served our island community through humanities programs, projects, and grants.

“O le tagata o ananafi ma le aso e fa’atamaoaiga le tagata o a taeao.”

“The individual of yesterday and today will enrich the individual of tomorrow.”


What are the humanities?

The term ‘humanities’ includes, but is not limited to, the study and interpretation of language, modern and classical; linguistics, literature, history, jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; history, criticism, and theory of the arts;

Those aspects of social sciences that have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods include the study and application of the humanities to the human environment, with particular attention to reflecting diverse heritage, traditions, and histories, and the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.