Moloka'i

Molokaʻi was a Hawaiian island chiefdom between Oʻahu and Lānaʻi. Its high chiefs claimed descent from Wākea, and its people lived under the kapu system.

From the late seventeenth century the rulers of Maui and Oʻahu repeatedly attacked Molokaʻi, which came fully under Maui before European contact. James Cook sighted the island in 1778, and George Dixon made the first recorded landing in 1786. Kamehameha I's victory at Nuʻuanu in 1795 brought it into the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.