Editing Maui (section)

==History==
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[[Polynesia]]ns from [[Tahiti]] were Maui's original inhabitants. They introduced the [[Kapu (Hawaiian culture)|kapu]] system, a strict social order that affected all aspects of life and became the core of Hawaiian culture. Modern Hawaiian history began in the mid-18th century. [[Kamehameha I]], king [[Hawaii (island)|Hawaiʻi island]], invaded Maui in 1790 and fought the inconclusive [[Battle of Kepaniwai]]. He returned to Hawaiʻi to battle a rival, subduing Maui a few years later.

=== European Contact ===
On November 26, 1778, explorer [[James Cook]] became the first European to see Maui. Cook never set foot on the island, because he was unable to find a suitable landing. The first European to come ashore was French admiral [[Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse]], who landed on the shores of what became [[La Perouse Bay]] on May 29, 1786. More Europeans followed: traders, whalers, loggers (e.g., of [[sandalwood]]) and [[Missionary|missionaries]]. The latter began to arrive from [[New England]] in 1823, settling in Lahaina, at that time Hawaii's capitol.  Missionaries taught reading and writing, devised the [[Hawaiian alphabet]] in order to translate a Bible into Hawaiian, operated a printing press in Lahaina, and began recording the islands' history, which had been transmitted only orally.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Goldman |first=Rita |date=May 2008 |title=Hale Pa'i |url=http://www.mauimagazine.net/Maui-Magazine/May-June-2008/Hale-Pai/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531191931/http://www.mauimagazine.net/Maui-Magazine/May-June-2008/Hale-Pai/ |archive-date=31 May 2010 |access-date=8 December 2010 |magazine=Maui Magazine}}</ref> The missionaries both altered and preserved the native culture. The religious work altered the culture while the literacy efforts preserved history and language. Missionaries started the first school in Lahaina, Lahainaluna Mission School, which opened in 1831  and still exists.

=== Whaling ===
[[File:'Japanese_Laborers_on_Spreckelsville_Plantation',_oil_on_canvas_painting_by_Joseph_Dwight_Strong,_1885,_private_collection.jpg|thumb|Japanese laborers on Maui harvesting [[sugarcane]] in 1885]]
At the height of the [[whaling]] era (1843–1860), Lahaina was a major center. In one season over 400 ships visited with up to 100 anchored at one time in [[Lahaina Roads|Lāhainā Roads]]. Ships tended to stay for weeks rather than days, fostering extended drinking and the rise of [[prostitution]], against which the missionaries battled. Whaling declined steeply at the end of the 19th century as [[petroleum]] replaced [[whale oil]].

Along with the rest of Hawaii, Maui was part of the [[Hawaiian Kingdom]], the [[Republic of Hawaii]], [[Territories of the United States|Hawaiian territory]], and the [[Hawaii|state of Hawaii]].

In 1937, [[Vibora Luviminda]] [[trade union]] conducted the final ethnic [[strike action]] in the  Hawaiian Islands against four Maui [[Sugar plantations in Hawaii|sugarcane plantations]], demanding higher wages and the dismissal of five foremen. Manuel Fagel and nine other strike leaders were arrested, and charged with kidnapping a worker. Fagel spent four months in jail while the strike continued. Eventually, Vibora Luviminda made its point and the workers won a 15% increase in wages after 85 days on strike, but no written contract was signed.

=== World War II ===
Maui was involved in the [[Asiatic-Pacific Theater|Pacific Theater]] of [[World War II]] as a staging center, training base, and [[R&R (military)|rest and relaxation]] site. At the peak in 1943–1944, more than 100,000 soldiers were based there. The main base of the [[4th Marine Division (United States)|4th Marine Division]] was in [[Haiku, Hawaii|Haiku]]. Beaches were used to practice [[Amphibious warfare|landings]] and train in marine demolition and sabotage.

=== 2023 wildfires ===
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