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Amelia Gora May 19, 2012 at 8:50pm

5/19/2012

Helu Ehiku, Heiau O Ahuena

Welcome

Statue of Kamehameha I, Kapaau, North Kohala, Hawaii

The Order of Kamehameha I was established on April 11, 1865 by his Majesty King Kamehameha V (Lot Kapuaiwa) to honor the legacy of his grandfather, the unifier of these islands, Kamehameha the Great.

The Order was reorganized by Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole in 1902.

Moku O Kona, Chapter 7 was officially formed in 1994.

The purpose of the Royal Order of Kamehameha I as it is known today is to:

unite in fraternal and benevolent work, men of Hawaiian descent, of good moral character, of sound bodily health;
cultivate the cardinal principles of friendship, charity and benevolence;
aid widows and orphans;
improve the social and moral conditions of its members; to provide scholarship assistance;
preserve and perpetuate the ancient culture, customs, and traditions of Hawaii, uplift the Hawaiian people;
infuse the spirit of patriotism, loyalty, helpfulness and kindness among its members;
advance the interest of its members in every rightful cause,
encourage and develop leadership.

Update on the Royal Order of Kamehameha aka's:

Ali‘i Chapter
(State of Hawai‘i & Oregon)
Email: Kuauhau Nui


Hawai‘i Chapter I (Urban O‘ahu) P.O. Box 23122 Honolulu, HI 96823 Website: www.RoyalOrderOfKamehamehaI.org/Hawaii Email: Chapter 1 Ku'auhau	Māmalahoa Chapter II (Hilo, Hawai‘i) Website: www.mamalahoa.org Kamehameha Celebration: www.kamehamehafestival.com 691 ‘Āinakō Ave. Hilo, HI 96720 Email: Kuauhau@Mamalahoa.org	Kaumuali‘i Chapter III (Kaua‘i) P.O. Box 1381 Lihu‘e, HI 96766 Email: Kuauhau.Chapter3@RoyalOrderofKamehamehaI.org

Kahekili Chapter IV (Maui) P.O. Box 1034 Wailuku, Maui, HI 96793 Email: Kuauhau.Chapter4@RoyalOrderofKamehamehaI.org	Kūhiō Chapter VI (Windward O‘ahu) P.O. Box 4726 Kanē‘ohe HI 96744 Email: Kuauhau - Moku O Kuhio	Kona Chapter VII (Kona, Hawai‘i) 73-1143 Ala Kapua Street Kailua-Kona, HI 96740

Kapuāiwa Chapter VIII (Leeward, O'ahu) Website: www.kapuaiwa.org Facebook: Moku 'o Kapuaiwa PO Box 970127 Waipahu HI 96797 Email: Ku'auhau - Moku O Kapuaiwa	Kōhala Chapter IX (Kōhala) Ali'i 'Aimoku Ron Dela Cruz. Kōhala, HI 96743 Email: Kōhala Chapter	Nā Wahine Hui o Kamehameha (Honolulu) Website: www.RoyalOrderOfKamehamehaI.org/NaWahine Email: NaWahine@RoyalOrderOfKamehamehaI.org

Updated 10/20/2011 Reference: http://www.royalorderofkamehamehai.org/ ************************************ Note: the Key here is that the Royal Order of Kamehameha was created by Kamehameha V - Lot Kamehameha, then "reorganized" by Prince Kuhio in 1902. Kuhio was a treasonous person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD_JTYhB560 Aale pono due to the signing of a "Covenant" with the U.S. Military, and this group along with the others have been filed on the Genocide Activities file with the Honolulu Police Department. auwe! Fix It ......Important to.........aloha.

Amelia Gora April 6, 2011 at 10:44am

Notice the highlighted name:

The Order was reorganized by Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana’ole in 1902.

He was a conspirator, a treasonous person documented. See reference material posted at the end of this article.

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Next, let's look at the Kaahumanu Society:

http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=display&...

Posted on: Sunday, November 6, 2005

Moloka'i Ka'ahumanu chapter is 75

By Anna Sajecki
Special to The Advertiser

Three generations of the Ka'ahumanu Society are profiled in this cameo. Ka'ahumanu is one of four royal societies in Hawai'i.

ADVERTISER LIBRARY PHOTO | June 8, 2001

In August, members of the Moloka? chapter attended a Sunday Mass presided over by Honolulu Bishop Clarence Silva.

BRENNAN PURTZER | Molokai Island Times

When people reach the age of 75, thoughts of the golden years often enter into their heads. Leisurely mornings, mellow afternoons; the years of being active and outspoken drift into the river of youth. Not so, however, for the Moloka'i chapter of the Ka'ahumanu Society, nearing its 75th year. Members are digressing from their chapter's quiet upbringing and are ready to be heard.

"A lot of people don't really know about the Ka'ahumanu Society; all they know of us is we're the women in black with the yellow leis," said Moloka'i chapter secretary Carolyn Takeuchi.

The 'Ahahui Ka'ahumanu, or Ka'ahumanu Society, is one of four royal societies in Hawai'i and is named after Queen Ka'ahumanu, who brought much change to her people and religion in Hawai'i. The society is both benevolent and historical; its primary goal is the respect of Hawaiians and Hawaiian culture.

There are nine chapters across Hawai'i. The mother chapter is in Honolulu, while Moloka'i's is the eighth chapter.

'Ahahui Ka'ahumanu is similar to a Hawaiian civic club because it promotes Hawaiian culture, but royal societies are more symbolic and secretive. All members have a Hawaiian background and were invited to join.

"We have an unbroken chain of members," said Hailama Farden, a teacher at the Kamehameha Schools and member of the royal society Hale O Na Ali'i. "A tie to the monarchy belongs to all formal societies."

Direct descendants of the monarchy belong to the societies, Farden said, such as the Kawananakoa family, descended from King David Kalakaua.

"We have living heirs to the throne," said Farden. "In Hale O Na Ali'i, they make up our super-in-council."

The councils of royal societies promote the groups' main objectives, including preserving cultural ties by giving proper burials and representing the monarchy at events.

"Our people have always been taken care of in times of need, and we make sure our members are buried and handled properly," said Farden. "Societies have been burying members with ritual since the beginning."

The first function of 'Ahahui Ka'ahumanu was to take care of the sick and dying, a mission that remains strong in the society.

Each society has emblems, and some wear feather capes, like the Royal Order of Kamehameha I, Farden said.

"The societies serve as a reminder. They are the reminder of our noble chiefly existence of people," said Farden.

"We have our ties because of loyalty."

While each society is loyal to the monarchy, there are special ali'i, or royal figures, who are given emphasis. The 'Ahahui Ka'ahumanu Society celebrates King Kamehameha, Queen Lili'uokalani and its namesake, Queen Ka'ahumanu.

The 'Ahahui Ka'ahumanu chapter I in Honolulu is the oldest chapter of the society. It celebrated its 100th anniversary in June during a three-day event at The Royal Hawaiian hotel. The celebration marked the forming of the Honolulu chapter in 1905, but the society was originally conceived in 1863 by Ka'ahumanu's niece, Princess Victoria Kamamalu.

NOTED BY MARK TWAIN

Kamamalu named the organization, a women's movement, after her aunt Ka'ahumanu, who was the favorite wife of King Kamehameha I.

Ka'ahumanu was a source of inspiration: She used her position to abolish kapu set on women and was granted the power of pu'uhonua, allowing her to spare anyone from execution and to protect women and children. After Kamehameha died, Ka'ahumanu became joint ruler with Kamehameha's son by another marriage, Liholiho. Later, she dedicated herself to Christianity and forged close bonds with missionaries. Just before she died on June 5, 1832, she was handed the freshly printed first edition of the New Testament in Hawaiian.

Because the women's society was supported by Catholics, Kamamalu found Ka'ahumanu's devotion, additional to her activism and Hawaiian loyalties, to be fitting.

The society quickly added members across Hawai'i and was noted by Mark Twain, who wrote, "Its membership was exceedingly numerous and its ramifications extended over the several islands of the group."

However, when Kamamalu died in 1866, the society went under.

"When she died in 1866, ... they just kind of closed everything up, turned everything over to the church and it closed," said Hono-lulu chapter president Donna Lei Smythe, who has held the position since July 1.

In 1905 Lucy Peabody reinstated the Honolulu chapter.

Chapter I in Honolulu is the largest Ka'ahumanu chapter, with 320 members out of the total 450. One must be 18 to be initiated.

Smythe has been a member of the society for about 15 years. Margaret Stafford, the former president, has belonged for 43, making her a life member. Chapter I meetings are still held at the Kawaiaha'o Church in Honolulu, where Kamamalu had her first meeting in 1864. Members still discuss fundraising, aid to families with funeral expenses and ali'i celebrations.

"We do little projects like helping families get children to the summer exploration program through Kamehameha Schools," said Stafford. "We also visit the elderly and help them at the Lunalilo Homes, which we've done for a long time."

A traditional event the chapter celebrates is Ali'i Sundays, a ceremonial event at the church where members pay tribute to a royal figure on the Sunday before the birthday.

At these events, members must wear the official regalia. It includes a yellow feather lei representative of royal birth, a yellow ribbon with " 'Ahahui Ka'ahumanu" written on it and an emblematic pin fashioned after a traditional coin.

"Almost everything we have has some sort of symbolism," said Smythe.

The ladies are recognizable by their all-black ensembles, including hat, dress and shoes.

"Ka'ahumanu was a missionary lady, and she saw the missionaries wearing all black," said Smythe. "They had bolts of black material, and she decided to wear the same for the rest of her life."

Members of the society once had the option of wearing white, but rules on dress changed in 1977, and ever since, wearing black has been mandatory.

Otherwise, the society remains much unchanged since its inception.

WOMEN'S STRONG BOND

Members of Chapter VIII on Moloka'i are proud of this tradition and link to the past. "This is a society for women of Hawaiian ancestry," said Takeuchi, the Moloka'i chapter secretary. "My grandmother was a member, and my mother, and I just felt it would be an honor to become a member."

Members meet during the second week of the month; each meeting begins with an opening song and the Lord's Prayer, and ends with the "Lei Ka'ahumanu," an aloha ode to the queen.

Ka'ahumanu started on Moloka'i when Lucy Malu Crane brought two officers from Maui and 17 other members helped her form a club under the umbrella of the Maui chapter. The chapter became independent in 1932.

"My fondest memory in the club is the acceptance within it, all over Hawai'i," said Jacques Hill, the chapter's marshal.

For Moloka'i members, gaining more exposure is a matter of importance.

"We want to explain to the young girls of the junior and senior classes what our role is," said Takeuchi. "We're trying to encourage young women to join."

Dignitaries come to Moloka'i only rarely, meaning members are less busy. However, when the new Roman Catholic bishop of Honolulu, Clarence Silva, came to Moloka'i in September, the Ka'ahumanu Society was there. "Christianity was brought into Hawai'i when Ka'ahumanu abolished many harmful beliefs and taboos," said Hill. "The women in the society have a very strong bond and are proud of their roots."

Hill said she looks forward to reuniting with members when the Moloka'i chapter has its 75th anniversary. "There will probably be a large gathering, with people from the other islands," she said.

The women of Moloka'i want the 75th anniversary to show the true spirit of Ka'ahumanu.

"To be part of this club is like keeping the memory of Ka'ahumanu alive," said Hill. "I enjoy being in the society and learning from the other members, and I just hope everyone can learn to understand the virtues of our ali'i."

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaahumanu_Society

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The Ahahui Kaahumanu Society is a civic club in Hawaii formed by Princess Victoria Kamamalu in 1864 to celebrate the life of Queen Kaʻahumanu and to preserve the monarchy in Hawaii.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kaahumanu-Society/104028756301503 uses the Wikipedia version.

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http://www.oha.org/pdf/kwo05/0506/13.pdf

OHA/Office of Hawaiian newspaper with Kaahumanu Society background

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http://www.huapala.org/Kaa/Kaahumanu.html (note: this article has no source, main page; therefore, not verified )

Ka`ahumanu - Words & music by Helen Desha Beamer

Lei Ka`ahumanu i ke aloha
Lei ha`aheo i ka lanakila
Lei i ka mamo hulu melemele
Lei Hawai`i i kou inoa

Hui:
E ola e ka `Î a me ka Mahi
E ala nâ kini o ka `âina
Ho`okahi pu`uwai me ka lokahi
I ola ka inoa
`O Ka`ahumanu

Eia kô lei a e lei ai
Na ke aloha i lawe mai nei
I lei ho`oheno mau ia nou
I ola ka inoa o Ka`ahumanu

Ka`ahumanu is wreathed in love
Pride`s wreath in victory
Lei of yellow mamo feathers
Hawai`i's crown, your name

Chorus:
Long live the `Î and the Mahi
Arise, kinsmen of the land
One heart in unity
To perpetuate the name
Of Ka`ahumanu

Here is your lei to wear
By love brought here
To express of continuing affection for you
The perpetuate the name of Ka`ahumanu

Source: Songs of Helen Desha Beamer Copyright Charles E.King,1943 - Mrs. Beamer composed this song for `Ahahui Ka`ahumanu, a benevolent society of Hawaiian women that support elderly, indigent Hawaiians. She was a charter member of the Hilo chapter and the first secretary of this organization that was founded by Princess Victoria Kamâmalu. The Princess Victoria Kamâmalu was born November 1, 1838, and named for her mother’s sister, Queen Kamâmalu, the favorite wife of Kamehameha II. Her mother was high chiefess Elisabeta Kina`u, daughter of Kamehameha Nui, widow of Kamehameha II, and half sister of Kamehameha III. Elisabeta Kina`u, died of mumps when Victoria was 5 months old and the infant princess was adopted by Kamehameha III and raised by the royal guardians, high chief John Papa I`i and his wife Sarai. Her father, high chief Matthew Kekuanaoa, governor of O`ahu, loved his daughter so much that he built her a magnificent house in 1840, on the corner of King and Richards Sts, on what is now the grounds of I`olani Palace. During the reign of Kamehameha III, the home was given to the monarchy for the royal residence. Kamehameha III named Princess Victoria to succeed her brothers Alexander Liholiho and Lot to the throne. He also appointed the princess to the office of Kuhina Nui, at the age of 16. When her brother Lot became Kamehameha V, he appointed their father, Kekuanaoa as Kuhina Nui. This position was abolished in 1864. The princess was engaged to William Lunalilo, but the union was opposed by her brothers and Lunalilo broke the engagement. High chief David Kalâkaua then proposed, but the princess refused and never married. Victoria was educated at the Chief’s Childrens School and was groomed for the throne at an early age. She supported educational and religious works, was a devout member of Kawaiha`o Church and a lifetime member of the Ka`ahumanu Society. A good pianist, accomplished hula dancer, talented chanter, and skilled poet, her forte was mele kuauhau, chants that record historical events. Missionary teaching was a powerful influence in her youth and she was torn between western ideas and Hawaiian ways. She adapted to the westernization imposed on her, but rejected it as she grew older, and returned to what she held most dear - Hawaiian tradition and the culture of her ancestors and people. February, 1866, the princess became ill at a party in Honolulu and paralysis set in by early May. She died May 29, 1866, at age 28, the last female direct descendant of Kamehameha Nui.

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Note:

The Kaahumanu Society was started by LUCY PEABODY, a treasonous person, a conspirator against the Hawaiian Kingdom, the Royal Families, her own families, and kanaka maoli/Hawaiian Nationals.

See previously posted information or see the end of this article with references.

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Amelia Gora > Amelia Gora April 6, 2011 at 11:02am

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Hale o Na Alii

In This Hawaiian Scavenger Hunt, A Princess Seeks Palace Treasures

King's Bed Went Missing in 1893 Revolt, But Iowa Returns a Mahogany Chair

By JULIA FLYNN SILER

HONOLULU—Abigail Kawananakoa has been on a decades-long treasure hunt—a bid to recover silverware, lamps, rare furniture and other assorted objects from her family's former home.

Make that "palace."

A dedicated team of preservationists are searching the world to reclaim the lost treasures of the Iolani Palace in Hawaii, the only royal palace on American soil. WSJ's Julia Flynn Siler reports from Honolulu.

This 84-year-old is a princess—a descendant of the royal family that ruled the former nation of Hawaii more than a century ago, presiding from graceful Iolani Palace in downtown Honolulu.

But much of the 19th-century palace's custom-made furniture, oil paintings and other treasures disappeared after January 1893, when a small band of businessmen overthrew the monarchy.

"We'd love the king's bed back," says Princess Abigail, the great grand-niece of Queen Kapiolani, who was married to the last King of Hawaii, David Kalakaua. His gilt-and-ebonized bed, made by the Boston-based A.H. Davenport Co., is one major item still missing. "We've had so many leads, and they've all been dead ends," the princess says.

Built in 1882, Iolani Palace was richly furnished when it was the home of Hawaii's last two monarchs. But by 1969, the creaky, termite-infested Italianate palace stood vacant. The Junior League of Honolulu helped found a nonprofit group called The Friends of Iolani Palace, which ended up running the palace as a museum. They tapped Princess Abigail's mother, Liliuokalani Kawananakoa Morris, to be the Friends' first president.

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Iolani Palace

The groups commenced their recovery mission in the late 1960s. Working from a desk in the state archives, they spent several years scouring 19th-century newspapers for clues as to where the stuff might have gone missing. To compile a list of items, they used old palace photographs, household ledgers, furniture purchase orders, details from the last king's probate and auction records.

Known as the "Register," the list includes everything from the wines in the king's cellar to sterling flatware. Pattie Black, the sole remaining acquisitions volunteer, continues to follow up tips of possible sightings on eBay.

The Palace also posts a "Most Wanted" list on its website.

"Occasionally, we spot something that did come from the palace," says Mrs. Black, 86. "That's a thrill." She's been following some missing items for decades.

Palace bounty has trickled in from some unlikely places. In 1987, a California couple bought a pretty porcelain plate for fifty cents at a community college swap meet in Huntington Beach, Calif. After seeing a television program about Iolani Palace, they realized the plate, with its royal insignia, had come from the palace's French Pillivuyt china service. They donated it in 2007.

Princess Abigail

One chair from the palace's Blue Room survived a tsunami in 1946, which swept it out of a Maui home and deposited it on a beach, where the owners recovered it and eventually donated it to the palace in 1976.

Another was more recently recovered through sheer social pressure. A group of Iowa eighth graders learned from their teacher that a small mahogany table in the palace actually belonged to the state of Iowa, which had received it as a gift from an Iowa resident and then lent it back to the Hawaiians. The kids, calling themselves the Give 'Em Back their Table Committee, began a campaign in 1999 to persuade the Iowa government to permanently give the table back to the palace.

Iowa transferred legal ownership in 2000, and the table is now a permanent addition to King David Kalakaua's library, according to the palace. The eighth graders created "a little bit of pressure through embarrassment," explains David Cordes, the retired Iowa official who handled the details of the table's transfer. "And they were absolutely right."

Despite these successes, about half of the palace's contents remain at large. It hopes to recover a white Venus di Milo plaster cast that once graced the king's office as well as the last queen's tiara, whose 150 diamonds were sold off and will probably never be recovered. The palace declines to estimate the value of the missing items.

Palace staffers and volunteers say that even today they know where a number of items are after spotting them in private homes. Some owners refuse to give stuff back, they say; others do so anonymously.

Then there's the clutter factor. Some families have simply run out of room to store their Hawaiian treasures. Descendants of Theo H. Davies, a 19th-century British sugar baron, returned four large ceremonial bowls, known as calabashes, he'd bought at auction. They'd been displayed both in the family's large home in Hampshire, England, and its home in Honolulu. Eventually, the family decided to donate them to the palace in 2006. "Nobody has a big enough house" to properly display them, says Joan Davies, the widow of Theo's grandson.

Alice Guild, one of the founders of the Friends of Iolani Palace, recalls opening the front door of her Honolulu home in the mid-1970s and finding an 18-inch package wrapped in butcher's paper and string on her doorstop. Inside was one of the long-missing wall escutcheons that someone had evidently pried off the palace. She thinks the donor left it anonymously because it was likely spoils from the overthrow.

"We never ask questions," says Princess Abigail. "Let's face it: [Donors'] relatives might have taken part in the looting."

Princess Abigail herself has bought back some treasures. At a Sotheby's auction in Switzerland in 1991, she placed the winning bid of 65,000 Swiss Francs (worth about $46,000 at the time) for a Knight's Grand Cross of the Order of Kamehameha I, which she then gave to the palace. The seller: a mysterious man known only as "Monsieur J.P.L."

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http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jul/20/ln/FP60720036...

Posted on: Thursday, July 20, 2006

Conference a first for Isles' 4 royal societies

By Gordon Y.K. Pang
Advertiser Staff Writer

The four Hawaiian royal benevolent societies will gather for a first-ever statewide convention at the Ala Moana Hotel this weekend to discuss where they've been, where they are and where they're going.

Age-old traditions dictate that much of what they do is to be shrouded in secrecy. All four groups were founded by ali'i, the ruling chiefs, are steeped in history, and share a common goal of perpetuating the Hawaiian culture and traditions.

The four groups are the Royal Order of Kamehameha I and its sister organization, Na Wahine Hui O Kamehameha I; the 'Ahahui Ka'ahumanu; the Hale O Na Ali'i of Hawai'i; and the Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors, also known as Mamakakaua.

About 200 people are expected to attend.

William Souza, an ali'i with the Royal Order of Kamehameha, said all four organizations were created to be "the unbroken historical link to our cultural past," and to pass on that knowledge to the current and future generations of Hawaiians.

"We're carrying on that tradition," Souza said.

Hailama Farden, state president of Hale O Na Ali'i O Hawai'i, said that in the past, the organizations focused on their own work without paying too much attention to what the others were doing.

"I think a lot of our members themselves don't know too much about the other organizations," Farden said.

The conference will be an opportunity to share that kind of information, he said.

Delegates to the conference are also expected to discuss their role in today's society, as well as the future.

While the royal societies have not taken strong public stands on political issues since the overthrow, "lately, we've realized sometimes we have to because we're expected to be the leaders in our community," Farden said.

Five people are being honored by the societies tomorrow for their contributions toward the preservation of the cultural heritage of Hawai'i.

Among those scheduled to be honored with a Kalaniali'i Award is 'Anakala Eddie Ka'anana, who died on Sunday. Ka'anana is to be honored as a "treasured skilled fisherman and Hawaiian language educator."

The others to be honored by the societies at the 'Aha Hipu'u Conference at the Ala Moana Hotel tomorrow night are:

Dr. Isabella Abbott, world authority on limu, author and botanist.
The Rev. Samuel Saffery, longtime Hawaiian spiritual leader.
Auntie Charlotte Clarke, respected elder and accomplished feather weaver.
Auntie Venus Holt, honored centenarian, kupuna and educator.

Tomorrow night's dinner is open to the public. Cost is $60. Call Farden at (808) 383-5868 to place a reservation.

Reach Gordon Y.K. Pang at gpang@honoluluadvertiser.com.

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Note:

The Kawananakoa's founded this organization. DAVID KAWANANAKOA and his brother Kuhio Kalanianaole were conspirators, pirates, treasonous persons. Their descendants and heirs perpetuated the wrongs over time.

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Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors - MAMAKAKAUA

Elizabeth Kahanu Kaleiwohi-Kaʻauwai Kalanianaʻole Woods (1879-1932) was the wife of Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, Hawaii's second delegate to Congress. Kaʻauwai was her maiden name and Kalanianaole was the surname of her husband. She, like her sister-in-law Abigail Campbell Kawananakoa, was a Hawaiian princess by marriage to a Hawaiian Prince. Their husbands were granted the title in 1883 and style "Highness", so their wives shared their title even though their marriages were after the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Elizabeth Kahanu Kalanianaʻole
Princess of Hawaiʻi

Spouse	Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole James Frank Woods
Full name
Elizabeth Kahanu Kaleiwohi-Kaʻauwai Kalanianaʻole
House	House of Kalakaua Royal House of Maui
Father	High Chief Kaleiwohi Kaʻauwai of Maui
Mother	High Chiefess Muolo Keawe-Heulu Laʻanui
Born	March 8, 1879(1879-03-08) Makawao, Maui
Died	February 20, 1932(1932-02-20) (aged 52) Honolulu, Oʻahu
Burial	Mauna Ala Royal Mausoleum

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[edit] Early life

She was born in Makawao, Maui on March 8, 1879, and during her childhood was a protégée of her cousin, Queen Kapiʻolani. Kalanianaʻole's father was a chief of the island of Maui named Kaleiwohi Kaʻauwai and his wife (Elizabeth's mother) was Muolo Keawe-heulu Laʻanui.^[1] Her family descends from the Royalty of Maui. High Chief William Hoapili Kaʻauwai and his wife High Chiefess Mary Ann Kiliwehi, who accompanied Queen Emma on her visit to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom in the 1860s, were her aunt and uncle.^[2] She was educated at Sacred Hearts Academy.

[edit] Marriage to Kūhiō

Photograph of Prince and Princess Kalanianaole, posed in a room in Chicago, Illinois.

Elizabeth met Kūhiō in 1895 after his participation in the failed Wilcox Rebellion had brought him into jail for almost a year. Kahanu brought him food, and sang songs to break his isolation. Just after he was released she married Prince Kūhiō on October 8, 1896.^[3] Their wedding was held in the Saint Andrew's Cathedral in Honolulu, Oahu.

She and her husband decided that they would leave Hawaii for a while since the monarchy was overthrown and hopes of restoration were dim. For two years she and Kūhiō traveled in Europe and South Africa as wealthy "nobility" and were usually recognized as royals even though the Kingdom had been overthrown. However, once a German count in Geneva, Switzerland, referred loudly to their dark skin color. Her husband used his boxing skill to knock the man out. As time passed her husband lost his feeling of bitterness and wanted to be back in the middle of the action in the Territory of Hawaii.^[4]^:57-59

They arrived home in September 1901 and settled at Pualeilani, the Waikiki home they had inherited from Kūhiō's aunt, Queen Kapiʻolani (where she died).^[4]^:59

Amelia Gora > Amelia Gora April 6, 2011 at 11:16am

[edit] Description

In Jack London and Hawaii by Charmian London, Princess Elizabeth is described as:

... a gorgeous creature that eclipsed the handsome look of her husband Kuhio. Her bigness was a trifle overwhelming to one new to the physical aristocracy of the island people. One would hesitate to call her fat, she was just big, sumptuos, bearing her splendid proportions with the remarkable poise that had already been noticed in Hawaiian women, only more magnificently. Her bare shoulders were described as beautiful, the pose of her head majestic, with heavy fine dark hair that showed bronze lights in its wavy mass. She was superbly gowned in silk that had a touch of purple or lilac about it, just the tone for her full black, calm eyes and war, tawny skin. For these of chiefly blood are many shades fairer than the commoners. Jack London and Charmian London agreed that they could not expect ever to behold a more queenly woman. The descriptive powers of these were exasperatingly inept to picture the manner in which the Princess stood, touching with hers the hands of all who passed before her, with a brief, graceful droop of her fine head, and a fleeting, perfunctory, yet graciouse flash of little teeth under her small fine mouth. Glorious she was, the Princess Kalanianaole, every inch a princess in the very tropical essence of her. Always shall I remember her as resplendent exotic flower, swaying and bending its head with unaffected, innate grace. And the Princess Elizabeth Kalanianaole has set an example, a pattern, that will make us full critical of royal women of any blood.^[5]

[edit] Death

In 1917, Kūhiō's aunt, Queen Liliʻuokalani died at her home in Washington Place. If the Hawaiian kingdom had not been overthrown, her husband would have succeed as king and she would have been queen consort of Hawaii. On January 7, 1922, her husband died and was intered in the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii. She converted the tomb into a chapel. She was appointed to fill her husband's place as a member of the Hawaiian Home Commission.^[6] She remarried to James Frank Woods in 1923. Woods was widower of Eva Parker Woods, daughter of Samuel Parker, who was the first Republican candidate for congressional delegate, and himself a great-grandson of Parker Ranch founder John Palmer Parker..^[7]

She died at Queen's Hospital on February 20, 1932. She had been President of the Native Sons & Daughters of Hawaii, Honourable President of the Kaʻahumanu Society, Regent of Hui Kalama, and Moi of the Daughters & Sons of Hawaiian Warriors.

[edit] References

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^ Under Hawaiian Skies: A Narrative of the Romance, Adventure and History of the Hawaiian Islands by Albert Pierce Taylor - Page 156
^ United States Congress (1910). Official Congressional Directory

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^ ^a ^b Ann Rayson (2004). "Chapter 3: Prince Kūhiō and the Hawaiian Homestead Act"

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^ Jack London and Hawaii By Charmian London. Page 49-54
^ "Kalanianaole, Elizabeth Kahanu, Princess office record"

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^ Kapiikauinamoku (May 23, 1956). "Second Son of Parkers, Palmer, Died As Youth"

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Note: Elizabeth Kahanu Kalanianaole was a co-conspirator, along with her husband Prince Kuhio Kalanianaole and her brother in law Prince David Kawananakoa.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Abigail Kawananakoa did form a group with RUBELLITE JOHNSON, EDITH MCKENZIE, and MYRTLE SCHUMAN (dec.) now represented by OWANA SALAZAR.

Abigail Kawananakoa was an ADOPTED child of ABIGAIL KAWANANAKOA was actually an ELLERBROCK, adopted (not legal because the claimed adoption took place during the Republic of Hawaii period, an entity which was neither de facto nor de jure operating as if it were the Hawaiian Kingdom government).

Rubellite Johnson family has some criminal issues as an adopted person assuming lands, interests of the true bloodlines. research incomplete.

Edith McKenzie - research incomplete.

MYRTLE SCHUMAN (dec.) and niece OWANA SALAZAR claimed to be descendants of conspirator, treasonous person ROBERT WILCOX.

Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owana_Salazar

Owana Kaʻohelelani Mahaelani-rose Salazar (born 1953) is a musician who is related to the royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaii. She used her popularity to promote discussion of Hawaiian sovereignty issues.

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[edit] Early years

Owana Salazar was born October 30, 1953. Her mother was Helena Kalokuokamaile Wilcox, a member of the House of Keoua Nui, through the branch of Laanui-Kalokuokamaile. Her maternal great-great-grandaunt was High Chiefess Elizabeth Kekaʻaniauokalaninuihilaukapu Laʻanui, and her great grandmother, Theresa Owana Kaohelelani Laanui was a great-great-great granddaughter of Keoua Kalanikupuapaikalaninui, the father of King Kamehameha I.^[1]^[2]

Her father was Henry Mario Salazar, descendant of a noble house from Spain. She was raised on the island of Oahu in her Spanish, Hawaiian, English, French^[3] and Italian culture. Her early years were immersed in music and family history as taught to her by her mother. The only girl in a family of five, Owana grew up with an honest sense of place. "Our family discussions were vast... about many of our ancestors, about their roles in Hawaiiʻs history, about the crown lands, about Robert Wilcox, about Princess Theresa going to Washington, about Princess Elizabeth going to Washington to petition Congress to survey the crown lands."^[4]

[edit] Cultural and Sovereignty Involvement

Salazar was strongly influenced by her descent from Hawaiian royalty and from her great grandfather, military and political leader Robert Kalanihiapo Wilcox. At nineteen, she was initiated into the Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors, Mamakakaua, a society organized around the genealogical descent of Hawaii's ruling chiefs. Throughout her musical career, she promoted Hawaiian history, culture and sovereignty. She served as family liaison to the Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts for two years, with the goal of planning, commissioning and unveiling a life-size bronze statue of great grandfather Wilcox. His statue is located at Wilcox Park in downtown Honolulu, on the corner of King and Fort Street.^[3] Owana served for seven years as Kuhina Nui (Regent) to Ka Lahui Hawaii, a Hawaiian sovereignty organization. Before her death in 1988, her mother named Owana Kuhina nui and her son, Noa as Ali`i nui Kalokuokamaile III. She informed Owana's brothers that their sister and her son would succeed her. All brothers supported their mothers decision.^[4]

In July 1998, Salazar and her son withdrew from their relationship with Ka Lahui. In press interviews around the centennial of the annexation of Hawaii by the 1898 Newlands Resolution, she points out that it was only a joint resolution of the US Congress, not a treaty.^[5]

[edit] Education and Music Career

Under the tutelage of Kumu Hula Ho`akalei Kamau`u, Ho`oulu Richards and Winona Beamer, Owana studied the art of hula. She was later enrolled in The Kamehameha Schools. Owana sang with the Concert Glee Club.^[4] After graduating from high school in 1971, she went attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa as a music major. Along with traditional western music theory, Salazar continued her study of hula, studied voice with Elizabeth Cole, studied piano, string methods, guitar, Javanese dance and gamelan. At the start of her public career, Owana performed with Hawaiian headliners such as Don Ho, Ohta-San, Ed Kenney and Charles K.L. Davis. It was at U.H. that she learned Kihoʻalu (slack key guitar). She was introduced to the world of Kihoʻalu one day by friend Nelson Hiu. Combining music theory with her repertoire of Hawaiian songs and slack key, Owana developed her playing skills with help from musicians such as George Kuo, Bla Pahinui, Cyril Pahinui, Dennis Kamakahi, George Kahumoku Jr. and Sonny Chillingworth. Other musical influences include Joni Mitchell, Johnny Mathis, Connie Francis, Stevie Wonder, Genoa Keawe, Gabby Pahinui, Lena Machado Marvin Gaye, Debussy, Ravel, Bach, Rachmaninov.^[3]

Her first recording in 1986, Owana and Kaʻipo, In Kona was nominated in the category of Most Promising Artist in the Na Hoku Hanohano Awards, a Hawaiian music industry salute. The following year, her second recording, "Owana", was a final ballot nominee for Contemporary Hawaiian Album of the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year. Pupuke describes the ocean on the North Shore of O`ahu. Kula Morning takes you upcountry Maui, gazing from mountain to the sea. “Na Wai” is a playful poetic expression of love's experiences, full of Hawaiian kaona (hidden meanings). “Kalamaula” celebrates the early homesteading movement of the Hawaiian people. “Silhouette Hula” is a hapa haole piece, recalling the early jazz years of Hawaiian music. For most of the 1980s, Salazar sang Hawaiian classics with the Royal Hawaiian Band and performed at venues in Waikiki and Japan. Jerry Byrd accepted Salazar as his student for formal study of Hawaiian steel guitar. Eventually, she received a full scholarship from the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association. In 1992, she became Byrd's first female graduate and has been called Hawaii's preeminent female steel guitarist.^[4] Besides Hawaii, Salazar has also performed in Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, and the Americas. In January 2000, she became the first woman to tour with the Hawaiian Slack Key Festival along with George Kahumoku, Jr., Keoki Kahumoku and Daniel Ho.^[3]

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Discography (partial)

"Owana" (1987) Nominated: Female Vocalist of the Year; Contemporary Hawaiian Album of the Year.
"Wahine Slack n’ Steel" (2003) Winner: Contemporary Hawaiian Album of the Year. Nominated: Female Vocalist of the Year; Album of the Year.
"Hula Jazz" (2005) Winner: Jazz Album of the Year; Nominated: Female Vocalist of the Year; Album of the Year; Song of the Year
"Hawaiian Slack Key Masters: Volume III" Winner: Grammy Award (Hawaiian Music Category)
"Hawaiian Slack Key Masters: Volume IV" Winner: Grammy Award (Hawaiian Music Category)