Arieta Enesi Mulitauaopele
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Arieta Enesi Mulitauaopele (21 February 1923 – 5 February 1990) was an American Samoan nurse and politician, who was the first Samoan to work as Chief Public Health Nurse in American Samoa, and was the first Samoan woman to run for election as Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa.[1]
Arieta Enesi was born on 21 February 1923 to parents Niko, the first pastor in Utulei, and Seine, a housewife. She was the fifth of eight children. She attended Poyer High School, and then in 1939 began to train as a nurse. After four years she graduated and was appointed Nurse Supervisor to the maternity ward at the American Samoa Hospital. In 1946 she continued her nursing training in Honolulu, where she's worked at the Queen's Hospital and at Kapiolani Maternity Hospital.[2]