#TBT: July 2, 2026
Tui Manuʻa Elisala was the last Tui Manu’a titleholder (paramount chief) in the Manuʻa Islands in present-day American Samoa, which expanded to become the Tui Manuʻa Confederacy. Before he died on July 2, 1909, he expressed the wish that the title die with him.