Pulemele’i Mound is the largest ancient structure in Polynesia that rises 12 metres high on the island of Savaii considered by some to be the cradle of civilization in Polynesia.  

It sits on freehold land that Nelsons Properties have been trying to sell which against the wishes local villages and historians.

Samoan Historian Meleisea Leasiolagi Dr Mala Meleisea is currently Director of Samoan Studies at the National University of Samoa, was the founding director of Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at Canterbury University and director at Centre for Pacific Studies at Auckland University, New Zealand.

Meleisea Leasiolagi Dr Malama Meleisea  talks about this ongoing dispute and the announcement that the site will no longer be sold.