Kalaikuʻahulu

Kalaikuʻahulu (also known as Kaleikuahulu, Kuahulu and Kua{{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}}) was a kānaka maoli (Native Hawaiian) aliʻi (hereditary noble) and kahuna nui (high priest) of Kamehameha I in pre-Christian Hawaii{{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}} 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 fulfilled.{{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}} He was also genealogist for Kamehameha, who placed his wives, Kekāuluohi and Hoapiliwahine, under his tutelage as genealogy students.{{cite book|author=Edith Kawelohea McKinzie|title=Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers, Volume 2|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}}

In 1805, as a skilled genealogist and orator, Kalaikuʻahulu won a match reciting genealogies in Lahaina, Maui over his competitor from Bora Bora{{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}} 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. The other aliʻi continued with the plan to poison Kaumualiʻi when Isaac Davis warned him, making the ruler cut his trip short and return to Kauaʻi, leaving Davis to be poisoned by the aliʻi instead.{{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}}