Kamauaua, 1st Alii Aimoku of Molokai, ruling either in the 11th or 13th century. He held sway over the island of Molokai, and was its first supreme king[1] ruling it without any oppositions. Tradition has not preserved the pedigree of his family beyond that he was the progneitor, but, as mentioned before, its connection with Kamau'a'Uaancient Nanaulu line is frequently affirmed. [2][3]
His pride of his descent, and regarded with aversion and well-founded alarm for the new migratory tide which for year past has been casting upon the shores of the islands a flood of alien adventurers, whose warlike and aggressive chiefs were steadily possessing themselves of the fairest portion on the archipelago. Theses invader were from of the second migratory group from the Society Islands. He had sought to form a league made of the native chiefs against these intruders. But the wily invaders with their new religion to awe the masses and new customs and new traditions to charm the native nobility, had, through intermarriage and strategy rather than force, become virtual ruler of Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, and Kauai. Kamauaua abandoned all hope of seeing these new settlers supplanted. [4]
Because he held sway over Molokai, the fifth in sizes in the group, it remained exclusively under native control, and its resolute old chief had from their infancy instilled into his sons a hatred of the souther spoilers and a resolution to resist their aggression to the bitter end. The children of Kamauaua and his wife Hinakeha were: Kaupeepee and Keoloewa, Haili, and Uli-hala-nui. His eldest son gave up his right to succeed to his younger brother to seek a more adventurous life. His second son succeed him as king. His third son is recounted in legends as an ancestor of Kanikaniaula, one of the wives of Kakaalaneo of Maui and mother of the famous Kaululaau; of his fourth son nothing is known. [2][4]
Kalakaua, His Hawaiian Majesty. The Legends And Myths of Hawaii: The Fable and Folk-lore of a Strange People. Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company Inc. of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo Japan, 1972.
Abraham Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origin and Migrations, Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969.
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