Tutuila

Some are uncomfortable with a faraway judge making decisions about their relationship with the United States, Williams said.

“Everybody else will come and impose their right in the village that is perfectly designed to fit every family’s need that occupies that land,” said Tisa Fa’amuli, who owns Tisa’s Barefoot Bar in the village of Alega on Tutuila, the largest island in the American Samoa archipelago.