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'''Kalaikuʻahulu''' (also known as '''Kaleikuahulu''', '''Kuahulu''' and '''Kua'''<ref name="Summers1971">{{cite book|author=Catherine C. Summers|title=Molokai: a Site Survey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ia1WAAAAMAAJ|year=1971|publisher=Department of Anthropology, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum|page=9|isbn=978-0-598-15110-0}}</ref>) was a ''kānaka maoli'' (Native Hawaiian) ''aliʻi'' (hereditary nobles) and ''[[Kahuna|kahuna nui]]'' (high priest) of [[Kamehameha I]] in pre-Christian Hawaii<ref name="D’Arcy2018">{{cite book|author=Paul D’Arcy|title=Transforming Hawai‘i: Balancing Coercion and Consent in Eighteenth-Century Kānaka Maoli Statecraft|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gr9iDwAAQBAJ|date=5 June 2018|publisher=ANU Press|page=185|isbn=978-1-76046-174-4}}</ref> who was considered a prophet for his prediction of; "Ke Akua maoli" and a message to Hawaiians never seen before. After the arrival of the Christian missionaries in 1820, [[Kaʻahumanu]] and others believed the prophecy to be fullfilled.<ref name="Bingham1849">{{cite book|author=Hiram Bingham|title=A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands; Or, The Civil, Religious, and Political History of Those Islands: Comprising a Particular View of the Missionary Operations Connected with the Introduction and Progress of Christianity and Civilization Among the Hawaiian People|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q1YrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA28|year=1849|publisher=H. Huntington|page=28|isbn=978-1241436773}}</ref> He was also genealogist for the monarch, who placed his wives [[Kekāuluohi]] and [[Hoapiliwahine]] under the tutelage of the kahuna nui as genealogy students.<ref name="McKinzie1986">{{cite book|author=Edith Kawelohea McKinzie|title=Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QB92bdJ8igwC&pg=PA17|date=1 February 1986|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-939154-37-1|page=17}}</ref>
In 1805, as a skilled genealogist and orator Kalaikuʻahulu won a match reciting genealogies in [[Lahaina, Maui]] over his competitor from [[Bora Bora]]<ref name="Ii1983">{{cite book|author=John Papa Ii|title=Fragments of Hawaiian History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cuCAAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Bishop Museum Press|page=81|isbn=978-0-910240-31-4}}</ref> Five years later Kamehameha I negotiated the peaceful unification of the islands with [[Kauaʻi]]. Kalaikuʻahulu was instrumental in the monarch's decision not to kill [[Kaumualiʻi]] the ruler of that island, when he was the single member of the aliʻi council to agree with Kamehameha's own reluctance to do so.<ref name="Ii1983" /> The other aliʻi continued with the plan to poison Kaumualiʻi when [[Isaac Davis (advisor)|Isaac Davis]] warned him, making the ruler cut his trip short and return to Kauaʻi, leaving Davis to be poisoned by the aliʻi instead.<ref name="Ii1983B">{{cite book|author=John Papa Ii|title=Fragments of Hawaiian History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cuCAAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Bishop Museum Press|page=83|isbn=978-0-910240-31-4}}</ref>
==Birth and ancestry==
Kalaikuʻahulu was born in 1725 on the island of Molokai as the son and ''keiki aliʻi'' (prince or child of a chief)<ref name="dict">{{cite web |url=http://wehewehe.org/gsdl2.85/cgi-bin/hdict?a=q&r=1&hs=1&m=-1&o=-1&qto=4&e=d-11000-00---off-0hdict--00-1----0-10-0---0---0direct-10-ED--4--textpukuielbert%252ctextmamaka-----0-1l--11-haw-Zz-1---Zz-1-home---00-3-1-00-0--4----0-0-11-00-0utfZz-8-00&q=keiki+ali%CA%BBi&fqv=textpukuielbert%252ctextmamaka&af=1&fqf=ED |title=Hawaiian Dictionaries |author=Mary Māmaka Kaiao Kuleana kope |publisher=[[University of Hawaii]] Press |access-date=2019-08-02}} of </ref> Kumukoa (k), aliʻi nui of Molokai and grandson of Kanealiʻi (w) (also known as Kanealai) and [[Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku]].<ref name="Museum1920">{{cite book|author=Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum|title=Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N581AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA360|year=1920|publisher=Bishop Museum Press|page=360}}</ref><ref name="Fornander1920">{{cite book|author=Abraham Fornander|title=Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3dNbjQ1DBB0C&pg=PA322|year=1920|publisher=Bishop Museum Press|page=322}}</ref>
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