Editing Wallis and Futuna (section)

===European settlements===
Futuna was first put on European maps by [[Willem Schouten]] and [[Jacob Le Maire]], during their [[circumnavigation]] of the globe, in 1616. They named the islands of Futuna "Hoornse Eylanden", after the Dutch town of [[Hoorn]] where they hailed from. This was later translated into French, as "Isles de Horne". The Wallis Islands are named after the British explorer [[Samuel Wallis]], who sailed past them in 1767, after being the first European to visit [[Tahiti]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.guampedia.com/pop-cultures-wallis-and-futuna/ |title=POP Culture: Wallis and Futuna |website=Guampedia|date=16 December 2015 |access-date=2017-03-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Wallis Archipelago|volume=28|page=285}}</ref> The French were the first Europeans to settle in the territory,<ref>{{Cite web |title= POP Cultures: Wallis and Futuna |url=https://www.guampedia.com/pop-cultures-wallis-and-futuna/|access-date=2021-05-24 |website=www.guampedia.com|date=16 December 2015 }}</ref> with the arrival of French [[missionary|missionaries]] in 1837, who converted the population to Roman Catholicism. [[Peter Chanel|Pierre Chanel]], [[canonization|canonized]] in 1954, is a major [[patron saint]] of the island of Futuna and of the region.

On 5 April 1842, the missionaries asked for the protection of France, after the uprising of part of the local population. On 5 April 1887, the queen of [[Uvea (Wallis and Futuna)|Uvea]] (of the traditional [[chiefdom]] of Wallis) signed a treaty, officially establishing a French [[protectorate]]. The kings of [[Sigave]] and [[Alo (Wallis and Futuna)|Alo]] (on the islands of Futuna and [[Alofi]]) also signed a treaty establishing a French protectorate, on 16 February 1888. From that moment, the islands were officially under the authority of the [[French colonial empire|French colony]] of [[New Caledonia]].

In 1917, the three traditional kingdoms of Uvea, Sigave, and Alo were [[annexation|annexed]] by France, integrated into the colony of Wallis and Futuna, and remained under the authority of the colony of New Caledonia.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NA19171004.2.5 |title=WALLIS ISLAND. |work=Northern Advocate |page=1 |date=4 October 2017 |access-date=18 June 2022 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>