U.S. should recognize American Samoans as citizens according to a federal judge in Utah

What are American Samoans doing in the Mormon state of Utah? Were it for Mormon missionaries in the Pacific Ocean?

"[islanders] whose connections to the state [Utah] date to the late 1800s, when missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint took the faith's message to the Pacific"
Amazing stuff!

U.S. should recognize American Samoans as citizens, judge says - The Salt Lake Tribune