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Umi-a-Liloa
ʻUmi-a-Līloa (fifteenth century) was the supreme ruler Aliʻi nui of Hawaii, Aliʻi-ʻAimoku (High chief of Hawaiʻi Island) who inherited Hawaiian religion, religious authority of the Hawaiian Islands from his father, High Chief Līloa, whose line is traced, unbroken to Hawaiian "creation". Aliʻi-ʻAimoku is the title bestowed on the ruler of a moku, district or island. His mother was Akahi. She was of a lesser line of chiefs who Līloa had fallen in love with when he discovered her bathing in a river. He became Aliʻi nui after the death of his half-brother Hākau, who inherited the lands of his father to rule. ʻUmi-a-Līloa was considered a just ruler, religious and the first to unite almost all of the Hawaii (island), island of Hawaii. The legend of Umi is one of the most popular hero sagas in Hawaiian history. While there is probably embellishment to the story, as many sagas do, a portion of historical accuracy remains. ʻUmi-a-Līloaʻs wife was Princess Piʻikea, daughter ...
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Kumalae
Kumalae was a Hawaiian High Chief, ''Aliʻi Nui'' (ruler) of Hilo, Hawaii, Hilo. He is also known as Kumalae-nui-a-ʻUmi ("Kumalae the Great, son of ʻUmi"). He was born about 1648. His father was Umi-a-Liloa, ʻUmi-a-Liloa, ''Aliʻi'' of Hawaii (island), Hawaiʻi. His mother was Piʻikea, daughter of Piʻilani of Maui. Kumalae’s uncles were Lono-a-Piʻilani and Kiha-a-Piʻilani and his brothers were Keliʻiokaloa and Keawe Nui-a-ʻUmi.Abraham Fornander. ''An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origin and Migrations''. Kumalae was given the district of Hilo, Hawaii, Hilo to rule as its district chief, and his successors would be notable as being fiercely resistant to the main line of the Hawaiian chiefs descended from his elder brothers.{{cite book, last=Kamakau, first=Samuel, author-link=Samuel Kamakau, title=Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, url=https://puke.ulukau.org/ulukau-books/cgi-bin/imageserver.pl?oid=EBOOK-CHIEFS&getpdf=true, edition=Revised, year=1992, orig-year=1961, publ ...
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Keliʻiokaloa
Keliʻiokaloa (c. 1500–c. 1545) was the '' Aliʻi Nui'' of the island of Hawaiʻi from c. 1525 to c. 1545. He was the sovereign king or chief of the island of Hawaiʻi. Life Keliʻiokaloa was the eldest son of Umi-a-Liloa, ''Aliʻi Aimoku'' of Hawaiʻi, by his third wife and half-sister, ''Aliʻi'' Kapukini-a-Liloa, daughter of Liloa, ''Aliʻi Aimoku'' of Hawaiʻi. He succeeded on the death of his father in the year 1525.Abraham Fornander Abraham Fornander (November 4, 1812 – November 1, 1887) was a Swedish-born emigrant who became an important journalist, judge, and ethnologist in Hawaii. Early life and education Fornander was born in Öland, Sweden on November 4, 1812, to An ..., ''An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origin and Migrations'', Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969. In 1545, he was deposed by his younger brother Keawenui-a-ʻUmi. After the death of Keliiokaloa there existed a season of conflict and confusion, which the great district chiefs ...
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Piʻikea
Piʻikea (Hawaiian: ''piʻi'' = "to ascend", ''ke'' = "the", ''ea'' = "life"; "the life ascends") was a High Chiefess. She was a daughter of Piʻilani and Chiefess La’ieloheloheikawai and sister of Lono-a-Piʻilani and Kiha-a-Piʻilani. Piʻilani built a great temple; according to the myth, Piʻilani was a son of Kū. Piʻikea went to Hawaiʻi and married ʻUmi-a-Liloa. Their son was Kumalae. They also had a daughter, Aihākōkō. When Kiha had to flee from Maui, he sought refuge with Piʻikea, at the court of ʻUmi. Here his sister advocated his cause so warmly, and insisted with ʻUmi so urgently, that the latter was induced to espouse the cause of the younger brother against the older, and prepared an expedition to invade Maui, depose Lono, and raise Kiha-a-Piʻilani to the throne of his father. ʻUmi summoned the chiefs of the various districts of Hawaii to prepare for the invasion of Maui. When all the preparations were ready, ʻUmi headed the expedition in person, accompanie ...
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Piʻilani
Piʻilani ("ascent to heaven") (born ca. 1460) ruled as Alii nui of Maui, Chief of the island of Maui in the later part of the 15th century. At the time Maui was an independent Monarchy, kingdom within the List of islands of Hawaii, islands of Hawaii. He was the first ''Aliʻi'' to unite the island under a single line. His rule was peaceful for most of his reign. His father was Kawaokaohele and his mother was Kepalaoa. Pilʻilani and his offspring are important in legends of Maui, in the same way that Līloa and his son ʻUmi-a-Liloa in the legends of the island of Hawaii (island), Hawaii. The two family lines of Piʻilani and Liloa were closely associated although from separate islands. ʻUmi was a supporter of Kiha-a-Piʻilani, Piʻilani's son, when he went to war. The lineage continued in west Hawaii and east Maui in lesser lines and in the lines of Moana ''Kane'' from Liloa and Piʻilaniwahine from Piʻilani in the couple's marriage and offspring. Piʻilani and his sons were c ...
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Aliʻi Nui Of Hawaii
The following is a list of ''Aliʻi nui'' of Hawaiʻi. The ''aliʻi nui'' is the supreme ruler (sometimes called the "King" or ''Moi'') of the island. ''Aliʻi'' refers to the ruling class of Hawaiʻi prior to the formation of the united kingdom. Here, "Hawaiʻi" refers to the island of Hawaiʻi, also called "the Big Island". ''Aliʻi nui'' of the Big Island * Pilikaʻaeia, 1110–1130 * Kukohou, 1130–1150 * Kaniuhu, 1150–1180 * Kanipahu, 1180–1210 * Kamaʻiole, usurper of Kanipahu, deposed by Kalapana, 1245–1250 * Kalapana of Hawaiʻi, 1250–1270 * Kahaʻimaoeleʻa, 1270–1300 * Kalaunuiohua, 1300–1345 * Kūʻaiwa, 1345–1375 * Kahoukapu, 1375–1405 * Kauholanuimahu, 1405–1435 * Kihanuilulumoku, 1435–1460 * Līloa, 1460–1480 * Hākau, 1480–1490 Unbroken line of rule to this point. Hakau, Liloa's first born and named heir, was overthrown by Liloa's second son Umi-a-Liloa; however, the hereditary line of Liloa is unbroken and continues. * 'Umi- ...
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Waipio Valley
Waipio Valley is a valley located in the Hamakua District of the Big Island of Hawaii. "Waipio" means "curved water" in the Hawaiian language. The valley was the capital and permanent residence of many early Hawaiian Aliʻi (chiefs/kings) up until the time of King Umi. This was a place celebrated for its ''nioi'' tree ('' Eugenia reinwardtiana'') known as the ''Nioi wela o Pakaalana'' ("The burning Nioi of Pakaalana"). It was the location of the ancient grass palace of the ancient "kings" of Hawaiʻi with the ''nioi'' stands. The first chief who had a court in this valley was called Kahaimoelea. In the 18th century, Kahekili II ( king of Maui) raided Waipio and burned the four sacred trees to the ground. The shore line in the valley is a black sand beach, popular with surfers. A few taro farms are located in the valley. Several large waterfalls fall into the valley to feed the river which flows from the foot of the largest falls at the back of the valley out to the ocea ...
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Līloa
Līloa was a ruler of the island of Hawaii in the late 15th century. He kept his royal compound in Waipio Valley, Waipi'o Valley. Līloa was the firstborn son of Kiha-nui-lulu-moku, one of the ''noho aliʻi'' (ruling elite). He descended from Hāna-laʻa-nui. Līloa's mother Waioloa (or Waoilea), his grandmother Neʻula, and his great-grandmother Laʻa-kapu were of the ʻEwa Beach, Hawaii, ʻEwa aliʻi lines of Oahu. Liloa's father ruled Hawaii as ''aliʻi nui'' and upon his death left the rule of the island to Līloa. Kiha had four other sons, brothers to Līloa. Their names were Kaunuamoa, Makaoku, Kepailiula, and (by Kiha's second wife Hina-opio) Hoolana. Hoolana's descendants were the Kaiakea family of Molokai, from whom Abraham Fornander's wife Pinao Alanakapu was descended. Līloa had two sons: his firstborn, Hākau, from his wife Pinea (his mother's sister); and his second son, Umi-a-Liloa, ʻUmi-a-Līloa, from his lesser-ranking wife, Akahi-a-Kuleana. Līloa was the common ...
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House Of Līloa
A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.Schoenauer, Norbert (2000). ''6,000 Years of Housing'' (rev. ed.) (New York: W.W. Norton & Company). Houses use a range of different roofing systems to keep precipitation such as rain from getting into the dwelling space. Houses generally have doors or locks to secure the dwelling space and protect its inhabitants and contents from burglars or other trespassers. Most conventional modern houses in Western cultures will contain one or more bedrooms and bathrooms, a kitchen or cooking area, and a living room. A house may have a separate dining room, or the eating area may be integrated into the kitchen or another room. Some large houses in North America have a recreation room. In traditional agriculture-oriented societies, domes ...
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Royalty Of Hawaii (island)
The Hawaiian Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi ( Hawaiian: ɛ ɐwˈpuni həˈvɐjʔi, was an archipelagic country from 1795 to 1893, which eventually encompassed all of the inhabited Hawaiian Islands. It was established in 1795 when Kamehameha I, then Aliʻi nui of Hawaii, conquered the islands of Oʻahu, Maui, Molokaʻi, and Lānaʻi, and unified them under one government. In 1810, the Hawaiian Islands were fully unified when the islands of Kauaʻi and Niʻihau voluntarily joined the Hawaiian Kingdom. Two major dynastic families ruled the kingdom, the House of Kamehameha and the House of Kalākaua. The kingdom subsequently gained diplomatic recognition from European powers and the United States. An influx of European and American explorers, traders, and whalers soon began arriving to the kingdom, introducing diseases such as syphilis, tuberculosis, smallpox, and measles, leading to the rapid decline of the Native Hawaiian population. In 1887, King Kalākaua ...
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Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; ) is an island U.S. state, state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only state not on the North American mainland, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state in the tropics. Hawaii consists of 137 volcanic islands that comprise almost the entire Hawaiian Islands, Hawaiian archipelago (the exception, which is outside the state, is Midway Atoll). Spanning , the state is Physical geography, physiographically and Ethnology, ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania. Hawaii's ocean coastline is consequently the List of U.S. states and territories by coastline, fourth-longest in the U.S., at about . The eight main islands, from northwest to southeast, are Niihau, Niihau, Kauai, Kauai, Oahu, Oahu, Molokai, Molokai, Lanai, Lānai, Kahoʻolawe, Kahoolawe, Maui, and Hawaii (island), Hawaii, a ...
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