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- ↑ "Samoana High School". National Center for Education Statistics . Retrieved 2019-05-12.
- ↑ Sunia, Fofo I.F. (2009). A History of American Samoa. Amerika Samoa Humanities Council. Page 247. ISBN 9781573062992.
- ↑ Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1975: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session, Deel 1. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974. p. 748.
- ↑ Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1982: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, on H.R. 4035, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Dept. of the Interior and Related Agencies. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992. p. 350. "Samoana High School which was destroyed by fire in 1979."
