After being fired for breaking Hawaiian Airlines' tattoo policy, Tracy Sialega-Fili, a Samoan-American customer care representative, is advocating for increased cultural understanding and ...

However, Sialega-Fili was terminated this month from the position after getting a tualima, a traditional Samoan tattoo, to honor her father, who has been seriously ill. Hawaiian Airlines ...

"The marks we choose to wear are the clues to the mystery of ourselves," opens the program, setting the tone for the explanation of tattoo, known as tatau in Samoa, the birthplace of tattoo.