Aikanaka
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ʻAikanaka was a Hawaiian high chief and grandfather of two of Hawaii's future monarchs, David Kalakaua and Lydia Kamakaeha Lili'uokalani.
Kamanawa was born about 1790. He was son Alii Kepookalani and Keohohiwa. His half-brother was Kamanawa Opio. He was a grandson of two of the five Kona chiefs who supported Kamehameha the Great in his uprising agaisnt Kiwalao, Kame'eiamoku, also know as one of the royal twins on the Coat of Arms of Hawaii, and Keawe-a-Heulu. His family was of high rank and was distant cousin of the Kamehamehas. He was consider to be of the Keawe-a-Heulu line, his mother's line, and that is what his grandchildren followed by.
He had one son and one daughter, Analea Keohokalole by Kama'eokalani, and probably William Luther Moehonua by Mary Napuaelua. [1] For some apparent reason, Aikanaka asked his servant Keawemahi to take his wife and son Moehonua. Moehonua later served as Gov. of Maui. His daughter by Kamaeokalani served as a member of the House of Nobles. He himself was in charged of the Punchbowl gun battery and his home was under the Punchbowl hill. [2] In his compound of many grass structures for cooking, eating, gathering, and retainers' quarters was a grass hut where his daughter gave birth to his two grandchildren Liliuokalani and Kalakaua.[3]
He was adoptive father of his eldest grandson James Kaliokalani, sadly he died at the age of 17. Aikanaka died in 1868. He owned vast tract of lands and it was split in half between his son and daughter and then his daughter's in third to her remaining children.
