. Standing to the right wearing a single white stripe on his
lava-lava, the Mau uniform, is Mataʻafa Faumuina Fiame Mulinuʻu I. Faumuina initially cooperated with the New Zealand colonial administration, remodelling his village of
Lepea along the "model village" lines demanded by Administrator
George Spafford Richardson. In late 1926 he attended a meeting with
Olaf Frederick Nelson and other independence activists at the home of
Samuel Meredith to plan the response to an inquiry into Samoan grievances. When he assisted in raising funds for the
Mau to send a delegation to
New Zealand, he was confined to his village for three months. He was later sent to
Lotofaga on
Upolu. In October 1927 he was allowed to return to
Apia to give evidence before the royal commission. Following the exile of
Olaf Frederick Nelson and arrest of
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III Faumuina became the effective leader of the
Mau. He was one of the leaders of the procession on
Black Saturday, He was lightly injured, with a bullet grazing his back. The death of Tamasese left Faumuina as the undisputed leader of the movement, and he was put on a wanted list for a speech he had given months before. He went into hiding with other
Mau members, but emerged in March 1930 for peace talks with the colonial administration. Following the negotiations, he led 300 members of the
Mau to Apia to surrender. Over the next five years Faumuina continued to lead the
Mau and keep the peace. ==Reconciliation==