Kālonaiki (
Hawaiian pronunciation: Kah-loh-nah-eeh-keeh) was a High Chief of the
island of
Oahu[1] in
ancient Hawaii, a successor of his relative, the High Chief
Maʻilikākahi. He is mentioned in ancient chants as the second ruler from the House of Maʻilikākahi, and was a descendant of the Chiefess
Maelo of
Kona. Through him, his descendants claimed the legendary
Nana-Ula as an ancestor.[2]
Family
The genealogy of Kālonaikiʻs is given in Hawaiian chants, but there are different opinions on the fact who were his parents. According to one opinion, he was a son of his predecessor Maʻilikākahi (and his consort, Kanepukoa?),[3] but it is generally believed that he was actually Maʻilikākahiʻs grandson, a son of Maʻilikākahiʻs son Kālonanui and his wife Kaipuholua,[4] and thus a brother of the High Chief
Kalamakua of Halawa.[5][6]
Kālonaiki had married a woman known as Kikenui-a-ʻEwa (or Kikinui-a-ʻEwa);[7][8] her genealogy is unknown, but it is believed that she was a descendant of the High Chief ʻ
Ewaulialaakona. She bore (three?) children to Kālonaiki:
^Kamakau, Samuel Manaiakalani, Ka Nupepa Kuokoa (newspaper). May 4, 1865. "He Mau Olele Mua No Ka Mookuauhau o Kamehameha I".
^Peleioholani, Solomon Lehuanui Kalaniomaiheuila, The Complete Ancestry of John Liwai Kalniopuuikapali-o-Molilele-ma-wai-o-Ahukini-Kau-Hawaii Ena, Ke Aloha Aina (newspaper). March 2, 1907 & March 9, 1907. Reprinted in Hawaiian Genealogies.
^Kamakau, Samuel Manaiakalani, Ka Nupepa Kuokoa (Newspaper). 1865. Ka Moolelo O Hawaii Nei. Translated by
Mary Kawena Pukui.
^According to the judge
Abraham Fornander, "[Kālonaikiʻs] wife was Kikinui-a-Ewa. Her parents are not mentioned, but it is said that she belonged to the great family of Ewauli-a-lakona, the great-grandson of Maweke."
^Kamakau, Samuel M., Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii (revised edition). Appendix Genealogies (Kamehameha Schools Press,
Honolulu, Hawaii, 1961).
^Bishop Museum Press, 1920. Memoirs of the
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. "...Lo Lale, the brother of Piliwale and Kalamakua [Paʻakanilea?], sons of Kalonaiki, the Oahu sovereign."