Kanipahu

Kanipahu was an ancient Hawaiian chief who ruled as the Alii Aimoku of Hawaiʻi 1215–1245. He was of the Pili line of Hawaiian chiefs.

Kanipahu was a son of Kaniuhu and Hiliamakani.

After Kanipahu lived on Molokaʻi and it was discovered that he was a chief, he was taken (as husband) by Hualani, the ruling chiefess of Molokai. One of the neverforgotten fact of Kanipahu's descendants was this marriage. Hualani was the great-granddaughter of Nuakea, who was the granddaughter of Maweke and wife of Keoloewaakamauaua. Beside Hualani, of Molakaʻi and Oʻahu descent above mentioned, he also married Alaikauakoko, who ast on time, whether previously or subsequently cannot now be ascertained, was the wife of Lakona, king of Oahu. With one of them he fathered two sons: Kanaloa, father of Kalapana and Kalahuimoku I, ancestor of Akahiʻakuleʻana.

David Malo said Alaʻikauakoko was the mother of Kalapana, making Kalapana Kanipahu's son instead of grandson. Kalapana was more probably son of Kanaloa and Makoʻani. Malo skips this generation, showing Kalapana as the son of Kanipahu.

References

• David Malo, Hawaiian Antiquities, Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1951.
• Abraham Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origin and Migrations, Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969
• Catherine C. Summers, "Molokai: A Site Survey," Pacific Anthropological Records, No. 14, (Honolulu, HI: Department of Anthropology, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1971).

External links

• Christopher Buyers. "The Ancestors of King Kamehameha (Page 1)". Royal Ark web site. Retrieved 2010-04-13. 
• Rootsweb