The recent cases put Alaska on the forefront of a national debate about the citizenship status of American Samoans.

Ten members of an American Samoan family residing in Whittier, Alaska, have been charged with voter misconduct and perjury, ...

FILE - This July 2002 file photo shows a sailing ship in the harbor at Pago Pago, American Samoa. Many residents of American Samoa are concerned that a federal judge's recent ruling in Utah, saying ...

Nearly 4 million people live in the five inhabited U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, ...