Hākā
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Haka was the 7th Alii Aimoku of Oahu. During his reign Oahu was divided among the sons of Maweke, a legendary figure thought to have colonized the northern islands of Oahu, Kauai and Niihau. He was descent of Maweke's many children and grandchildren. He was the last of the line of Kumuhonua, eldest son Mulielealii, eldest son of Maweke, and Oahu's first sovereign.
The only genealogy of this chief of that has been agreed upon by others, is that from Kapae-a-Lakona, 6th Alii Aimoku of Oahu, to Haka was spanned three generations. Of Haka's place on the genealogy there can be no doubt, however, as he was superseded as Moi, Mailekukahi, whose geneaology is perfectly correct from the time of Maweke down.
He was the Moi of Oahu but the title was of no power. He only hold the land of Ewa, as its district chief and resided at Lihue. Of this Haka, traditional legends records that he was a stingy, rapacious, and ill-natured chief, who paid no regard to either his chiefs or his commoners. As a consequence they revolted from him, made war upon him, and besieged his fortress, near Waewae, near Lihue. During one night of the siege, an officer of his guards, whom he had ill-treated, surrendered the fort to the rebel chiefs, who entered and killed Haka. His life was the only one split on the occasion. Tradition does not preserved whether Mailikukahi had a hand in this affair, but he was clamorously elected by the chiefs of Oahu in councile convened as the Moi of Oahu and duly installed and anointed as such at the heiau. His successor was of the Moikeha branch.
Haka's only known wife was the High Chiefess Kapunawahine, with whom he had a son named Kapiko-a-Haka. He had two granddaughters from his only son. They were Kaulala, who married Kalaniuli, a Koolau chief and became the ancestress of the royal Kualii family on Oahu, and the other daughter was Kamili, who married Ilihiwalani, son of Kalanikuma of Kauai, from which Kaumualii, the last independent Kauai king, descended.
[edit] Reference
- Abraham Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origin and Migrations, Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969. Page 49, 65, 87-88
| Preceded by Kapae-a-Lakona |
Alii Aimoku of Oahu | Succeeded by Mailikukahi |
