Kālonaiki

Kālonaiki (Hawaiian pronunciation: Kah-loh-nah-eeh-keeh) was a High Chief of the island of Oahu[1] in ancient Hawaii, a successor of his relative, the High Chief Maʻilikākahi. He is mentioned in ancient chants as the second ruler from the House of Maʻilikākahi, and was a descendant of the Chiefess Maelo of Kona. Through him, his descendants claimed the legendary Nana-Ula as an ancestor.[2]

Family

The genealogy of Kālonaikiʻs is given in Hawaiian chants, but there are different opinions on the fact who were his parents. According to one opinion, he was a son of his predecessor Maʻilikākahi (and his consort, Kanepukoa?),[3] but it is generally believed that he was actually Maʻilikākahiʻs grandson, a son of Maʻilikākahiʻs son Kālonanui and his wife Kaipuholua,[4] and thus a brother of the High Chief Kalamakua of Halawa.[5][6]

Kālonaiki had married a woman known as Kikenui-a-ʻEwa (or Kikinui-a-ʻEwa);[7][8] her genealogy is unknown, but it is believed that she was a descendant of the High Chief ʻEwaulialaakona. She bore (three?) children to Kālonaiki:

See also

References
  1. Edith Kawelohea McKinzie. Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers.
  2. Fornander, Abraham (1878). An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origin and Migrations. Trubner & Company, Ludgate Hill. p. 195. Nana-Ula.
  3. Mailikukahi (Maili-ku-kahi)
  4. Kamakau, Samuel Manaiakalani, Ka Nupepa Kuokoa (newspaper). May 4, 1865. "He Mau Olele Mua No Ka Mookuauhau o Kamehameha I".
  5. Peleioholani, Solomon Lehuanui Kalaniomaiheuila, The Complete Ancestry of John Liwai Kalniopuuikapali-o-Molilele-ma-wai-o-Ahukini-Kau-Hawaii Ena, Ke Aloha Aina (newspaper). March 2, 1907 & March 9, 1907. Reprinted in Hawaiian Genealogies.
  6. Kalamakua (Kalamakua-a-Kaipuholua) (Chief of Halawa, O'ahu)
  7. Kamakau, Samuel Manaiakalani, Ka Nupepa Kuokoa (Newspaper). 1865. Ka Moolelo O Hawaii Nei. Translated by Mary Kawena Pukui.
  8. According to the judge Abraham Fornander, "[Kālonaikiʻs] wife was Kikinui-a-Ewa. Her parents are not mentioned, but it is said that she belonged to the great family of Ewauli-a-lakona, the great-grandson of Maweke."
  9. Kamakau, Samuel M., Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii (revised edition). Appendix Genealogies (Kamehameha Schools Press, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1961).
  10. Bishop Museum Press, 1920. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. "...Lo Lale, the brother of Piliwale and Kalamakua [Paʻakanilea?], sons of Kalonaiki, the Oahu sovereign."
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