In , Queen Liliuokalani became the ruler. A year after, the Republic of Hawaii was founded. The island was annexed by the United States in , and was made territory in A bubonic plague affected Kahului. To destroy the rat carriers of the disease, the port was burned down. The port was rebuilt and improved in In , the Maui County was established.
This included the islands of Maui, Molokini, Kahoolawe, and part of Molokai. The county's seat was at Wailuku. The first airport in Maui was built in at Maalea. Construction of runways was completed in In , larger planes were introduced by Inter-Island Airlines. This brought attention to the inadequacy of the runways' condition in servicing such type of aircrafts.
In , the Maalea airport was closed down and Puunene Airport was opened. Because the airport still needed improvements and expansion, the military sought to build a new Naval Air Station in During World War II, Maui was a staging center, a training base, and a place for rest and relaxation.
In , , troops were stationed in Maui. The first hotel in Maui, Hotel Hana, opened in And in , Kahului airport was turned over to the Territory of Hawaii. In , Mount Haleakala became a separate national park. In , the first resort community in Maui opened at Ka'anapali. The first hippies arrived in Maui in These people introduced marijuana which caused protests from the locals. Arrests were made and the production of marijuana was stopped. Maui's rich history has made its historical sites must-see places for tourists.
Here are some suggested historical sites for you to see:. Halekii-Pihana State Monuments are the remnants of an ancient heiaus, or temple. Originally built in , the monuments were reconstructed in A majestic view of Central Maui can also be seen from here.
Olowalu Petroglyphs are drawings preserved in rocks. This site shows the life of ancient Hawaiians through the drawings. The Iao Needle, one of Maui's most popular landmarks can be found here. It was in Iao Valley where the Battle of Kepaniwai took place. Spreckels's gamble paid off: Not only did he beat the king at poker some say he cheated , but he also built the elaborate mile Haiku Ditch system, which transported 50 million gallons of water a day from rainy Haiku to dry Puunene.
The big boost to sugar, not only on Maui but also across the entire state, came in , when King Kalakaua negotiated the Sugar Reciprocity Treaty with the United States, giving the Hawaiian sugar industry a "sweet" deal on prices and tariffs. In , King Kalakaua visited chilly San Francisco, caught a cold, and died in the royal suite of the Sheraton Palace. His sister, Queen Liliuokalani, assumed the throne.
A Sad Farewell -- On January 17, , a group of American sugar planters and missionary descendants, with the support of U. Marines, imprisoned Queen Liliuokalani in her own palace, where she later penned the sorrowful lyric "Aloha Oe," Hawaii's song of farewell.
The monarchy was dead. A new republic was established, controlled by Sanford Dole, a powerful sugar-cane planter. In , through annexation, Hawaii became an American territory ruled by Dole. His fellow sugar-cane planters, known as the Big Five, controlled banking, shipping, hardware, and every other facet of economic life on the islands.
Planters imported more contract laborers from Puerto Rico in , Korea in , and the Philippines Most of the new immigrants stayed on to establish families and become a part of the islands. Meanwhile, the native Hawaiians became a landless minority in their homeland.
For nearly a century on Hawaii, sugar was king, generously subsidized by the U. The sugar planters dominated the territory's economy, shaped its social fabric, and kept the islands in a colonial plantation era with bosses and field hands. The attack brought immediate changes to the islands. Martial law was declared, stripping the Big Five cartel of its absolute power in a single day.
Japanese Americans and German Americans were interned. Hawaii was "blacked out" at night, Waikiki Beach was strung with barbed wire, and Aloha Tower was painted in camouflage. During the postwar years, the men of Hawaii returned after seeing another, bigger world outside of plantation life and rebelled. Throwing off the mantle of plantation life, the workers struck for higher wages and improved working conditions.
Within a few short years after the war, the white, Republican leaders who had ruled since the overthrow of the monarchy were voted out of office, and labor leaders in the Democratic Party were suddenly in power. Kaiser built the Hilton Hawaiian Village at the edge of Waikiki, and the story high-rise Princess Kaiulani Hotel opened on a site not far away, where the real princess once played.
Hawaii greeted , visitors that year. That year also saw the arrival of the first jet airliners, which brought , tourists to the state. Fantasy mega resorts bloomed on Maui and other neighbor islands like giant artificial flowers, swelling the luxury market with ever-swankier accommodations.
But that year also saw the arrival of the first jet airliners, which brought , tourists to the fledgling state. Fagan wanted to retire to Hana, so he focused his business acumen on this tiny town with big problems. Years ahead of his time, he thought tourism might have a future in Hana, so he built a small six-room inn, called Kauiki Inn, which later became the Hotel Hana-Maui.
When he opened it in , he said it was for first-class, wealthy travelers just like his friends. Not only did his friends come, but he also pulled off a public-relations coup that is still talked about today. Fagan owned a baseball team, the San Francisco Seals. He figured they needed a spring-training area, so why not use Hana?
He brought out the entire team to train in Hana, and, more important, he brought out the sportswriters. The sportswriters penned glowing reports about the town, and one writer gave the town a name that stuck: "Heavenly Hana. However, it would be another 3 decades before Maui became a popular visitor destination in Hawaii.
Waikiki was king in the tourism industry, seeing some 16, visitors a year by the end of the s, and some 4 million a year by the end of the s. In , Amfac, owner of Pioneer Sugar Co. The company decided to build a manicured, planned luxury resort in the Kaanapali area. They built it, and people came. By the mids, some one million visitors a year were coming to Maui.
Ten years later, the number was up to two million. At the beginning of the 21st century, the visitor industry replaced agriculture as Maui's number-one industry.
Maui is the second-largest visitor destination in Hawaii. Hawaii was at record-breaking visitor counts 6. Then on September 11, , terrorists attacked the mainland and tourism dropped abruptly in Hawaii, sending the state's economy into a tailspin. But people eventually started traveling again, and in , visitor arrivals were up to 6.
By , Hawaii's economy was recovering, the number of visitors to the state shot up to 6. Just 3 years later, the economic pendulum swung the opposite way. Real estate in Hawaii, as on the mainland, dropped in value and sales plummeted.
As a result, Maui became one of the most acclaimed figures of Oceania history. As the people acclimated to Maui's gifts, he had to perform increasingly grand feats to sustain their adulation. This led him to steal the heart of Te Fiti , the mother island.
As the gem has the power to create life, Maui believed it would make the perfect gift to mortals all across the world. Unfortunately, once the heart was removed from its resting spot, darkness slowly began consuming the world. The two battled, but Maui was defeated, losing both the heart of Te Fiti and his magical fish hook in the aftermath. The heart would remain lost for centuries, while Maui's fishhook eventually fell into the possessions of his arch-rival, the giant crab Tamatoa.
Even so, legend proclaimed that Maui was destined to team up with a hero—the " chosen one "—to return the heart to its rightful place. Moana came from co-director John Musker 's fascination with the legends and lore surrounding Maui. As such, the plot was initially conceived as a story centering Maui, with Moana playing a secondary role. This was during extremely early stages of development, and it was quickly changed to focus on Moana after an inspirational research trip to the South Pacific.
Maui's physical appearance was much different in earlier versions of the movie. He was bald and shorter in stature. For five years of the film's development, the filmmakers consulted in their Oceanic Story Trust, who pushed Disney to enhance Maui's physique to resemble a hero in the vein of Superman. One source of inspiration was Dwayne Johnson's late grandfather High Chief Peter Maivia, who was also a professional wrestler like Johnson and an actual Samoan high chief.
Maui is boastful, gregarious, and mischievous. His manner of carrying himself matches his massive physique, being larger-than-life and a true god among men. He is responsible for most of the necessities and luxuries currently belonging to mankind, and with his magical fish hook at hand, is amongst the most powerful figures in South Pacific lore. Widely regarded as a clever trickster, Maui is rarely matched when it comes to adversaries, being greatly feared by villains and monsters lurking throughout the sea.
Maui can be extremely arrogant and pompous as a result of this reputation, although his many achievements tend to justify his vainglorious attitude. For all his heroics, however, Maui can also be short-tempered, bitter, pretentious, and his inflated ego tends to give him a superiority complex.
This attitude lead him to be quite antagonistic, and even murderous. When he first meets Moana, he had no regard for her life and was completely willing to leave her stranded on a barren island or even lost at sea. He can also be selfish, initially choosing to focus solely on reclaiming his hook with no intention of saving the dying world, though Moana was able to change his mind.
As a result of his poor upbringing, Maui has spent a majority of his life living with crippling insecurity. He went out of his way to perform godly deeds for mankind's benefit to gain the love and appreciation denied to him by his parents.
While he seemed to enjoy the praise he earned, Maui secretly longed to be appreciated beyond his demigod status; as the human he is on the inside, rather than the deity portrayed in legends. Additionally, despite boasting about his accomplishments to Moana, Maui initially credited the gods for his many feats, claiming they're the ones that "made him Maui".
He saw himself as "nothing" without his hook, and was extremely reluctant to take on challenges without it, becoming somewhat of a coward. Through Moana, however, Maui slowly began to realize that the hook is only an accessory during his adventures and that his many accomplishments over the years were a result of his own bravery, rather than what the gods created to assist him in such exploits. Though still arrogant and gruff, Maui developed into a much more selfless and humble figure following his adventure with Moana.
Maui was first seen during Gramma Tala 's story regarding his disastrous theft of Te Fiti's heart. A thousand years after Maui's disappearance, Tala's granddaughter, Moana , was chosen by the ocean to find the demigod and have him join her in returning the heart to its rightful place. According to Moana's ancestors, Maui can be found by following a constellation resembling his fish hook. After Tala's death, Moana takes the heart and journeys off into the sea. She follows the fish hook constellation, but gets lost along the way.
Fortunately, the ocean creates a storm that transports her to Maui's island, and she washes up along its shores the following morning. Shortly after Moana awakens, Maui finds her boat unattended and celebrates his key to escape.
He soon meets Moana, who angrily confronts the demigod and orders him to return the heart. Maui, feeling a tad disrespected, explains to Moana exactly who he is and his gifts to mankind over the years.
Maui singing " You're Welcome ". He does so through the musical number " You're Welcome ", which served more as a ploy to distract Moana.
He traps her in his cave in order to make off with her boat against Mini Maui's protests. By time Moana manages to escape, Maui has already sailed off. The ocean helps Moana catch up to Maui on the boat, and she reveals to have the heart of Te Fiti in her possessions. Believing the heart is cursed, Maui refuses to return it and instead tries to rid them of it.
Due to the ocean, however, Maui is unsuccessful. Suddenly, the duo are attacked by a band of pirates known as the Kakamora, who sought the heart like many villains. As Maui Moana defend the boat, Heihei swallows the heart and is kidnapped by the pirates shortly thereafter.
Moana asks Maui to save him and the heart, but Maui doesn't believe it to be worth the risk and tries to escape.
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