Kaiminaauao

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Kaiminaʻauao 1844 - 1848 was a Hawaiian Princess by adoption to Kalama and Kamehameha III. She died of measles at the age of four. She was a member of the House of Kamehameha and the House of Kalakaua

Her birth mother was Analea Keohokalole and her birth father was Caesar Kapaakea who were both of Hawaiian nobility. She was the younger sister of Kalakaua and Liliuokalani, both who would be Hawaii's future monarch. She was hanaied adopted, as most of her sibling were soon to be also, by to another family. Kamehameha III and his queen, Kalama were childless at the time because two sons born to Kalama had already died before reaching adulthood. Kamehameha III had previously adopted his half-sister Kinau's son Alexander Liholiho as his heir. Kalama probably wished to have a daughter of her own to love so they adopted Keohokalole and Kapaakea's. She was the first in her family to actually be referred as a Princess since her foster parent were the sovereign king and queen of the Hawaiian Island.^[1]

An American warship brought measles to Hilo. The Native Hawaiian had no immunities to western disease. From there it spread to the rest of the Hawaiian Kingdom. It decimates about a third of the population. Measles, whooping cough and influenza epidemics wipe out 10,000 people, mostly native Hawaiians. Among the high chiefs who die are Moses Kekuaiwa, son of Kinau and Kekuanaoa; William Pitt Leleiohoku I, husband of Ruth Keelikolani.^[2] The four year old Kaiminaauao also died. She died in November 10, 1848. She was intured in the Kalakaua Crypt, Royal Mausoleum, Mauna 'Ala. ^[3]