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The first people to
inhabit Maui were the Marquesas, who, sometime before 450 A.D., sailed their
doubled-hulled canoes off in the direction taken by local birds that annually
returned home from their migration considerably fattened. Until the Tahitians
came along around 700 A.D. to push them into the forest, the Marquesas spent
hundreds of years on Maui building their grass houses and stone temples, making
tapa cloth, outrigger canoes, and fishing and grinding the root of the taro
plant into poi. In turn, the Tahitians introduced their goddesses and religion
along with the kapu system, a strict social order that was central to ancient
Hawaiian culture.
These peoples
formed Maui’s original inhabitants – denizens of a tropical Eden living the
simple lives of native people. They went on to form three chiefdoms --
Wailuku, Lele (Lahaina), and Hana that
lasted until 1778, when Captain James Cook became the first European to
visit Maui. Unable to find a place to land, Cook never set foot on the
island.
That had to wait until 1786 and the arrival of the French admiral
Jean-Francois
de Galap, comte de La Perouse, who disembarked on the shores of what is
now known La
Perouse Bay. In the wake of these early Europeans came traders, whalers
and
missionaries who would put an end to Maui’s simple way of life --
although the
descendants of King Kamehameha I, who conquered the island in bloody
battle in
Iao Valley shortly prior to Cook’s arrival, reigned until 1872.
After Kamehameha
and his descendants came another ancient family of chiefs, including Queen Liliuokalani who ruled Hawaii in 1893 when the monarchy was overturned. The
Republic of Hawaii, formed the following year, was annexed by the United States
in 1898. Hawaii was made a U.S. territory in 1900, and 50th state in 1959.
