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Tuimaleali'ifano Fa'aoloi'i Si'ua'ana I
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Tuimaleali'ifano Fa'aoloi'i Si'ua'ana I (~1854[1] — 14 October 1937)[2] was a Samoan paramount chief, and the first holder of the Tuimaleali'ifano title. He was one of the leaders of the Mau movement.
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Fa'aoloi'i was the youngest son of Tuiaana Sualauvi.[3]: 55 He was raised in Afega, but recalled to Falelatai on the death of his father to take up his chiefly title.[3]: 55 In 1889 he was made Kovana Aana (district governor) by the Samoan government.[2] In the 1890s he became a friend of the writer Robert Louis Stevenson.[2][4] He served as a ta'imua under the German colonial administration, and in 1915 was made a fautua (native advisor) under the New Zealand administration.[1][5]