ive been trying to find out why....everytime me and my wife find out a little information about it we end up being pushed away ..or being told that the keliiahonui name took its last canoe ride when prince edward passed.......... i remember growing up listening to my tutu waihine tell us stories of her home on molokai and how my mother was to be the the hidden princess of hawaii . i remember my tutu waihine telling us that we was to young for her to tell us everything about our mothers secret life and why she is the hidden princess of hawaii...it s a story i really wanted to hear.but like everything else we have found about our mothers family... my tutu waihine passed not to long after....all i know is that my mother was to keep the alii bloodline pure but because she was to be hidden she was like how she says she was raised in a time when all hawaiians with royal alii bloodline was hidden so that the bloodline would live on for our keikis so that one day us the future of our nation the kanaka maoli of today would stand up and be heard....stop fighting against eachother and get the truth about our hawaii our home what our ancestors tried so hard to preserve for us and find out who is the true princess or queen of our nation so we can keep our last queens promise to her people alive....see told her people that the kingdom of hawaii her people will get back what our ancestors died and was inprisoned and murdered to keep pure....our aina our way of livin before the visitors came to our home and took our kindness as a reason to think that we needed there help to protect and show us the christian way of life....she said three generations after the visitors take away our home our queen our mana we would rise up and take back what they took away from us by force because in there sick heads ...they lied to us and when our king ..our queen figured out that all they wanted was our home our lands they stood up and said we are hawaiians and we dont trust you...visitors they tried to kill everyone of alii blood but were still here ........ you guys had your chance to protect and show us the christian way of life....we did what you visitors forced our ancestors to live the american way and its over step aside and and give us back what you guys destroyed for many many many years back to us before its to late....and theres nothing left.....if there is anyone here that knows about my family and why did they past us after prince edwards rein i would really like to know if my mom is of royality and the mana i feel in me is the mana of our ancestors sayingstaaaaand up hawaiians put the bullshit aside and find out who it is that is the true heir to the throne to unite us and lead us and restore our way of life so that our ancestors can finally see that we never forgot what they tried so hard to leave in us to bring back for our keikis the future of a kingdom takin by force tru lies and forced to forget our culture our language....im sorry if what i say may pissssssss some kanaka off but they not only took our homes lands and our last queen the last tru alii and made her give up our home so that we could live on to unite and fight back for what is ours ....now hawaiians fight hawaiians because of greed lust power.. they knew once we had no queen to look to for guidence they could devide us and watch us destroy our once strong kingdom.....they took our mana.......and now were the slaves doin all the bullshit of life because we have to to keep and provide for our familys.... we have to take back our pride our mana....and stand together as kanakas ...before we have nothing left to call our own......we need to enbrace our mana in us and stop standing in the back quite...in shame ..... my life long friend wasnt affraid to speak out loud of all the lies all the curruption and total destruckion of once strong nation but like the old days the visitors saw a treat and to silenced him to ....they inprisoned him and gave him a number like alot of us hawaiians but they tthink putting us in prison will silence us it only makes us stronger.......KANAKAS STAND UP AND BE HEARD....OUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASLEEP FOR TO LONG.....GET UP AND MAKE A STAND.... BECAUSE IF WE DONT.....THE KANAKAS THAT STOOD UP AND SAID THAT I WILL CONTINUE TO SPEAK MY NATIVE LANGUAGE AND CONTINUE TO TEACH MY KEIKIS THAT WE ARE HAWAIIANS WE HAVE ROOTS HERE WE HAVE THE AINA ....WE DONT NEED THEM TO PROTECT US TO SAVE US.........WE NEVER ASKED FOR THEM FOR HELP.......WE CAN LIVE IN HARMONY CAUSE WE HAVE MANA......I WANT THEM TO PACK THERE BAGS AND GO HOME.....THEY OVERSTAYED THERE WELCOME........MY TUTU WAHINE NAME IS JAMIMA KELIIAHONUI SHE WAS BORN IN KAUNAKEKAI IN 1909.....AND MY MOTHERS NAME IS BETTY JEAN LEIOLANI KELIIAHONUI
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One more thing,
A kupuna from Molokai once told me that Molo means four currents and kai means ocean. do you know any Na Kupuna that could confirm this. Cause if one put's a glottal mark between the ka'i (not sure), but this might change the whole intent of the word. I might be wrong since I am not a person that olelo's.
no i dont sorry i just wanted to find out if there is other keliiahonuis on molokai my mom has been wanting to go back home to find any family .....my father passed in 2004 and now she feels like here family is calling her to come home ...i remember growing up we all spoke olelo first english second but since my tutu passed so did the language
Pono Kealoha posted his youtube and I believe I heard your ohana's name on that particular video.
Mike Lee is doing a good job on challenging the state on stopping development, research and calling himself a native practiction. I believe I heard him say that name. The video is over an hour.
My apologies for all your pain and suffering. I hope that as I am writing and responding one would not take my thoughts as anything that affects ones heart.
Firstly, I am not one to claim royalty--I prefer not and asked my children that they too--not go there. However, I am always open to people that have the tenacity to go for the Hawaiian Monarchy crown or thrown. Secondly, I for one although I am a cut of a missionary--do not really want to follow in the footsteps of my ohana. I do believe that people in time of despair need a belief system to kick in to get them out of the doldrums of pain and suffering. Especially when one is all alone and no one to talk too--she is there! Thirdly, working in mind, body and spirit rhythm helps to communicate well with finding information. It's not just their in black and white for our eyes to see. Remembering the days of the 70s it was always an amazing sensation that we were still able to talk to each other through our minds. That's not the case today!
As a researcher-not the maha'oe kind of other people's geneology--I feel that being from Molokai, the Catholic Women's Guild Archives Preservation and Access Project might have some information. All records have been transferred over to UH Hamilton and the Librarian has assured me that the general public will have access. While attending this information meeting--I saw a lot of information from Molokai on display. There was 22 native Hawaiian women that started this guild.
Molokai is an important island because of it's history of protecting and practicing our Hawaiian religion for many years, in spite of the heavy hand of the protestant missionaries.
As for the fighting that goes on when we all entered the UH, I believe that the law school had a lot to do with disenfranchising all of us into battles of theory. Rage and anger can be a good thing provided that there is guidance out there. Seeking the truth and meaning which is what I like to think that is the best thing to do in these situations- comes with rage and pain. And the problem is the negative energy is a good thing, it's the unconsciousness that keeps us there that causes the pain. I believe that once one is relived of the unknown much will be shown. I see this happening everyday among those of us who are activist on Oahu. Research and keeping searching for answers--even when we think we have it--it is gone in a second with 10 more questions to answer.
Take care and good luck!
mahalo for stoppin by and reading about my struggles of tryin to find the answeres to my life journey........
you are welcome and I too will try and keep my eye open for Keli'i a honui in part as well as whole!