In the beginning paddling outrigger canoes, the first ancestors of today's Hawaiians followed the stars and birds across the sea to Hawaii, which they called "the land of raging fire." Those first settlers were part of the great Polynesian migration that settled the vast triangle of islands stretching between New Zealand, Easter Island, and Hawaii. No one is sure when they arrived in Hawaii from Tahiti, and the Marquesas Islands, some 2500 miles to the south, but archaeological evidence from the southern tip of the Big Island of Hawaii has been carbon-dated to 700 A.D. That they continued to arrive from Tahiti for hundreds of years is pretty well substantiated. Not until about 1300 did the Hawaiian islands start to develop its own culture. Each island became a separate kingdom. The early settlers built temples (heiau), fishponds, and aqueducts to irrigate their taro crops. They became farmers, and fishermen subsisting on a diet of coconuts, bananas, fish, and poi (a paste of the taro root). In time they ate the meat of pigs, chickens, and dogs. The most powerful among these early Hawaiians were the ali'i, or high chiefs, and the priests. The ali'i were said to have their beginnings from Wakea and Papa. Wakea is the god of light and of the heavens who "opens the door of the sun." Papa is the goddess of earth, and the underworld, and she is the mother of gods. It is from Wakea from whom all Hawaiian genealogies stem as the ancestor of all Hawaiian people, "both chiefs and commoners." Wakea is the son of Kahikoluamea (Very ancient one), and Kupulanakehau. The Lihauula are also descended from them, and it is from the Lihauula that the kahuna, or priests are descended. Thus the high chiefs, or ali'i can trace their roots to Wakea. Paumakua was the first Ali'i Aimoku of Maui. He was 31st in the line of descent from Wakea. Twenty-seven kings ruled after him. The 25th Ali'i Aimoku, Kahekili II, greatly expanded the kingdom of Maui by conquering the neighboring island of Oahu in 1783. His son, Kalanikupule, the 27th Ali'i Aimoku of Maui was the last of his line. Maui fell to the all-conquering armies of King Kamehameha the Great in 1795, and the Kingdom of Hawaii was unified. Our focus falls upon the 23rd Ali'i Mo'i of Mau'i who was the eldest son of Kaulahea II named Kekaulike Kalani-nui-Kui-Hono-i-Kamoku. Kekaulike was one of the great Maui kings. He married five times including first his own half-sister, Ali'i Kekuaipoiwa-nui Kalani-kauhiaimokuakama Wanakapu, who was the eldest daughter of Kaulahea II, and his wife, Ali'i Kalani-Kauleleiaiwi (See the accompanying list of the Kings of Maui, for the exact genealogy). By his first wife Kekaulike had one son, and two daughters. The son, Ali'i Kauhiaimokuakama, is the direct lineal ancestor of Lokelia Pali, or Rosie Makolo v. Mary Maude Marrotte (Leila) was born December 25, 1926. Leila was married twice: (1) Unknown Gray, and (2) Unknown Jeffries about 1969;.... ..I edited my profile at Freeweblayouts.net , check out these Myspace Layouts!
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