Lauaki Namulauulu Mamoe, Samoan chief, as prisoner on a German warship, 1909 (b/w photo)

One of the main responsible people for an uprising in the German colony of Samoa, Lauati, with his wife on board the German cruiser Arcona. Lauaki Namulauulu Mamoe (also known as Lauati) was a renowned orator chief and the first leader of the Mau, a resistance movement in Samoa during colonialism. Mamoe was exiled to Saipan in 1909. He died in 1915 as he was taken back to Samoa. The resistance movement led by Lauaki on Savai'i was called Mau a Pule (1908) which later grew into the national Mau movement. The Mau a Pule represented chiefs protesting against losing their traditional Samoan authority under the colonial administration headed by German Governor Wilhelm Solf.