Keelikolani
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Princess Ruth Luka Keanolani Kauanahoahoa Keelikōlani (1826–1883), was a member of the Kamehameha family
, the founding dynasty of the Kingdom of Hawaii
. She served as Royal Governor of the Island of Hawaii
. As primary heir to the Kamehameha family, Ruth became a landholder of what would become the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate funding the Kamehameha Schools. Unlike most of the rest of the royal family, Princess Keelikōlani retained traditional Hawaiian cultural practices.
She was considered to have two fathers, called a po'olua ancestry (meaning roughly "two heads of the family"). One father was High Chief Kahalaia Luanuu (died 1826), Governor of Kauai island
, a grandson of King Kamehameha I, the only son of the king's third son Kahoanuku Kinau and High Chiefess Kahakuhaakoi Wahinepio
from Maui. Keelikolani was born February 9, 1826, after her mother had already married on November 28, 1825 her next husband, Mataio Kekūanāoa (1793–1868).
Keelikolani's traditional but now unorthodox birth was one reason she was regarded outside the legitimate birth of Christian Hawaiian nobility. Her claims to be a Kamehameha descendant cannot be questioned since her mother was granddaughter of King Kamehameha. However, her great-uncle King Kamehameha III
established in the Constitution of 1840
that eligibility to be monarch required a Christian-style legitimate birth. Ruth was adopted and raised by Kamehameha's most powerful queen, Kaahumanu, who acted as regent under kings Kamehameha II and III.
She was probably the half-sister of King Kamehameha IV
and King Kamehameha V
and Princess Victoria Kamāmalu
.
Her first husband, from 1841, was William Pitt Leleiohoku I (1821–1848), Governor of Hawaii, former husband of Princess Harriet Nahienaena
, and son of High Chief William Pitt Kalanimoku the Prime Minister of Kamehameha I, and Chiefess Kiliwehi.
Soon after she married Leleiohoku, her 27-year-old husband died in a measles
epidemic.
She married her second husband, June 2, 1856 was Isaac Young Davis (c. 1826–1882), son of George Hueu Davis and his wife Kahaanapilo Papa (therefore grandson of Isaac Davis
).
Their marriage was an unhappy one, and they divorced 1868. The early loss of their son did not help.
, son of Leleiohoku, was born on December 21, 1842. He was taken away at an early age to attended the Royal School in Honolulu, and died September 9, 1859. Keolaokalani Davis, son of Isaac Young Davis was born in February 1862 and hānai (adopted) against his father's wishes to Bernice Pauahi Bishop
. He died in August 1862, aged six months.
Her adopted son, called Leleiohoku II after her first husband, was born January 10, 1854, became Crown Prince of Hawaii, but died April 9, 1877, when ony 23 years old. On the death of her adopted son, she demanded that Kaläkaua and his family relinquish all rights to the estates she had bequeathed their brother, and that they be returned to her by deed. Her relations with King Kaläkaua were distant, although she had close friendships with his sister, Queen Liliuokalani, and their mother, Keohokalole
.
where Kaiulani's father Archibald Cleghorn
built the Ainahau Estate. Kaiulani gave Ruth the pen name of Mama Nui meaning "great mother". Ruth insisted that the princess be raised to one day be fit to sit on the Hawaiian throne. Ruth's death in 1883 was the first of many deaths that Kaiulani would witness in her short life.
an traditions and customs. While the kingdom became Christianized, Anglicized, and urbanized, she preferred to live as a noble woman of antiquity. While her royal estates were filled with elegant palaces and mansions built for her family, she chose to live in a large traditional stone-raised grass house. While she understood English
and spoke it well, she used the Hawaiian language
exclusively, requiring English-speakers to use a translator. Although trained in the Christian religion and given a Christian name, she honored practices considered pagan, such as patronage of chanters and hula
dancers.
She continued to worship the traditional gods and various aumakua, or ancestral spirits. When Mauna Loa
erupted in 1880, threatening the city of Hilo with a lava flow, her intercession with the goddess Pele was credited by Hawaiians with saving the city. When the ruling monarchs asked her to pose for official photographs, she often refused. Only a dozen photographs of Ruth are known to exist.
She adopt some modern ways, such as Victorian fashions in hairstyle and dresses. Christian missionaries caused Hawaiian royal women to become self-conscious about their Hawaiian looks. They were uncomfortable with their dark skin and large bodies which had been considered signs of nobility for centuries. No matter how Westernized their manners, they were seen as a "Hawaiian squaw." By the last half of the 19th century, Hawaiian women were going in two different directions. Many European men married Hawaiian women they found exotic, favoring those who were thin and had pale complexions.
Ruth defied this ideal, weighing 440 lbs and over 6 feet (1.8 m) tall. Her broad features were accentuated by a nose flattened by surgery for an infection. To add on to her stature, listeners described Princess Ruth's voice as a "distant rumble of thunder." The U.S. minister to Hawaii dismissed the princess as a "woman of no intelligence or ability." In addition to her giant size, she rejected English and the Christian faith. Her clear defense of the old ways caused Westerners to think she was backward and stupid.
and heir to the vast Kamehameha estate, she had more power and wealth than most women in other parts of the world. For example, American women could not even vote at the time. Ruth's assertiveness were characteristic of her ancestors. She hired businessmen such as Sam Parker
and Rufus Anderson Lyman
who were descended from Americans to help her adapt to the new rules for land ownership. Instead of selling the land, she offered long-term leases, which encouraged settlers to start successful family farms, and gave her a secure income.
She was a shrewd businesswoman. In a notorious case, she sold Claus Spreckels
her claims to the Crown Lands
for $10,000. The lands were worth $750,000, but she knew her claims to them were worthless, since it had been decided in previous court cases that the lands were only entitled to whoever held the office of monarch.
In 1847 she was appointed to the Privy Council
of Kamehameha III, and served from 1855 through 1857 in the House of Nobles
. January 15, 1855 she was appointed to be the Royal Governor of the Island of Hawaii
, where she served until March 2, 1874.
When her last half-brother Kamehameha V
died in 1872 leaving no heir to the throne, her controversial family background prevented her from being a serious contender to be monarch herself. Although she was considered a member of the royal family, along with Queen Emma
and the king's father. In 1874, King Lunalilo
then died, and the legislature elected Kalākaua as king, the first to be not descended from Kamehameha I. Keʻelikōlani was not declared as a member of the royal family, merely as a high chiefess by the new king. The young William Pitt Leleiohoku was named Crown prince
, and history might have been very different if he had lived past 1877 and became a wealthy king. Instead, the increase reliance of the royal family on the treasury and governmental pensions to fund their lavish expenses is generally considered one factor that led to the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893.
She died at Huliheʻe Palace, Kailua Kona, Hawaii Island, May 15, 1883. Her body was shipped back to Honolulu for a royal funeral, and she was buried in the Kamehameha Crypt of the Royal Mausoleum
, Mauna Ala, in Nuuanu Valley, Oahu. Her will had only one major bequest: to Princess Pauahi the elaborate mansion, Keōua Hale
on Emma Street in Honolulu, as well as approximately 353000 acres (1,428.5 km²) of Kamehameha lands. This totaled nearly nine percent of the land in the Hawaiian Islands.
. Her estate became the endowment of the Kamehameha Schools
. On these lands downtown Honolulu
, Hickam Air Force Base
, part of Honolulu International Airport
, Moana Hotel
, Princess Kaiulani Hotel
, Royal Hawaiian Hotel
, among others, were built.
A documentary film was made of her life in 2004. As a tribute to her traditionalism, a version of the film was produced in the Hawaiian language.
House of Kamehameha
The House of Kamehameha , or the Kamehameha Dynasty, was the reigning family of the Kingdom of Hawaii between the unification of the islands by Kamehameha I in 1810 and the death of Kamehameha V in 1872...
, the founding dynasty of the Kingdom of Hawaii
Kingdom of Hawaii
The Kingdom of Hawaii was established during the years 1795 to 1810 with the subjugation of the smaller independent chiefdoms of Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lānai, Kauai and Niihau by the chiefdom of Hawaii into one unified government...
. She served as Royal Governor of the Island of Hawaii
Royal Governors of Hawaii
The Governor of Hawaii was the royal governor or viceroy of the Island of Hawaii during the Kingdom of Hawaii. The Governor of Hawaii was usually a Hawaiian chief or prince and could even be a woman. There were no restriction of women in government in the House of Nobles or Governship of the islands...
. As primary heir to the Kamehameha family, Ruth became a landholder of what would become the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate funding the Kamehameha Schools. Unlike most of the rest of the royal family, Princess Keelikōlani retained traditional Hawaiian cultural practices.
Family
Keelikolani's mother was high Chiefess Kalani Pauahi (1804–1826), daughter of High Chief Pauli Kaōleiokū (eldest illegitimate but natural son of Kamehameha I) and his first wife High Chiefess Keoua-wahine. Her mother died giving birth to her.She was considered to have two fathers, called a po'olua ancestry (meaning roughly "two heads of the family"). One father was High Chief Kahalaia Luanuu (died 1826), Governor of Kauai island
Governors of Kauai
The Governor of Kauai was the royal governor or viceroy of the island of Kauai and island of Niihau during the Kingdom of Hawaii. The Governor of Kauai was usually a Hawaiian chief or prince and could even be a woman. The Governor had authority over the islands of Kauai and Niihau, and it was up to...
, a grandson of King Kamehameha I, the only son of the king's third son Kahoanuku Kinau and High Chiefess Kahakuhaakoi Wahinepio
Wahinepio
Kahakuhaakoi Wahinepio , was a Hawaiian chiefess and member of the royal family during the Kingdom of Hawaii. Wahinepio means captive women in Hawaiian....
from Maui. Keelikolani was born February 9, 1826, after her mother had already married on November 28, 1825 her next husband, Mataio Kekūanāoa (1793–1868).
Keelikolani's traditional but now unorthodox birth was one reason she was regarded outside the legitimate birth of Christian Hawaiian nobility. Her claims to be a Kamehameha descendant cannot be questioned since her mother was granddaughter of King Kamehameha. However, her great-uncle King Kamehameha III
Kamehameha III
Kamehameha III was the King of Hawaii from 1825 to 1854. His full Hawaiian name was Keaweaweula Kiwalao Kauikeaouli Kaleiopapa and then lengthened to Keaweaweula Kiwalao Kauikeaouli Kaleiopapa Kalani Waiakua Kalanikau Iokikilo Kiwalao i ke kapu Kamehameha when he ascended the throne.Under his...
established in the Constitution of 1840
1840 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii
The 1840 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii titled Ke Kumukānāwai a me nā Kānāwai o ko Hawai’i Pae ‘Āina, Honolulu, 1840 was the first fully written constitution for the Kingdom of Hawaii...
that eligibility to be monarch required a Christian-style legitimate birth. Ruth was adopted and raised by Kamehameha's most powerful queen, Kaahumanu, who acted as regent under kings Kamehameha II and III.
She was probably the half-sister of King Kamehameha IV
Kamehameha IV
Kamehameha IV, born Alexander Iolani Liholiho Keawenui , reigned as the fourth king of the Kingdom of Hawaii from January 11, 1855 to November 30, 1863.-Early life:...
and King Kamehameha V
Kamehameha V
aloghaKamehameha V , born as Lot Kapuāiwa, reigned as monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1863 to 1872. His motto was "Onipa`a": immovable, firm, steadfast or determined; he worked diligently for his people and kingdom and was described as the last great traditional chief...
and Princess Victoria Kamāmalu
Kaahumanu IV
Victoria Kamāmalu Kaahumanu IV , was Kuhina Nui of Hawaii and its crown princess. Princess Kamāmalu is one of Hawaii's less notable historical figures...
.
Her first husband, from 1841, was William Pitt Leleiohoku I (1821–1848), Governor of Hawaii, former husband of Princess Harriet Nahienaena
Nahienaena
Harriet or Harrieta Keōpūolani Nāhienaena was a high ranking princess during the founding of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the conversion of its royalty to Christianity.-Life:...
, and son of High Chief William Pitt Kalanimoku the Prime Minister of Kamehameha I, and Chiefess Kiliwehi.
Soon after she married Leleiohoku, her 27-year-old husband died in a measles
Measles
Measles, also known as rubeola or morbilli, is an infection of the respiratory system caused by a virus, specifically a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus. Morbilliviruses, like other paramyxoviruses, are enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA viruses...
epidemic.
She married her second husband, June 2, 1856 was Isaac Young Davis (c. 1826–1882), son of George Hueu Davis and his wife Kahaanapilo Papa (therefore grandson of Isaac Davis
Isaac Davis (Hawaii)
Isaac Davis was a Welsh advisor to Kamehameha I and helped form the Kingdom of Hawaii. He arrived in Hawaii in 1790 as the sole survivor of the massacre of the crew of The Fair American. He along with John Young became friends and advisors to Kamehameha...
).
Their marriage was an unhappy one, and they divorced 1868. The early loss of their son did not help.
Sons
She bore two sons, who both died young. John William Pitt KïnauWilliam Pitt Kinau
-Life:He was born December 21, 1842. His father was High Chief William Pitt Leleiohoku I . His mother was Princess Ruth Keelikōlani . Through his mother he was Kamehameha I's only great-great grandchild. His mother's parentage has been disputed but she is a member of the House of Kamehameha by...
, son of Leleiohoku, was born on December 21, 1842. He was taken away at an early age to attended the Royal School in Honolulu, and died September 9, 1859. Keolaokalani Davis, son of Isaac Young Davis was born in February 1862 and hānai (adopted) against his father's wishes to Bernice Pauahi Bishop
Bernice Pauahi Bishop
Bernice Pauahi Bishop , born Bernice Pauahi Pākī, was a Hawaiian princess, philanthropist, alii, and direct descendant of the royal House of Kamehameha. She was the great-granddaughter of King Kamehameha I and last surviving heir...
. He died in August 1862, aged six months.
Her adopted son, called Leleiohoku II after her first husband, was born January 10, 1854, became Crown Prince of Hawaii, but died April 9, 1877, when ony 23 years old. On the death of her adopted son, she demanded that Kaläkaua and his family relinquish all rights to the estates she had bequeathed their brother, and that they be returned to her by deed. Her relations with King Kaläkaua were distant, although she had close friendships with his sister, Queen Liliuokalani, and their mother, Keohokalole
Keohokalole
Analea, Ane or Annie Keohokālole was a Hawaiian chiefess and matriarch of the Kalākaua Dynasty that ruled Hawaii from 1874 to 1893.-Life:...
.
Kaiulani
She was godmother to Princess Kaiulani. At Kaiulani's baptism, Ruth gifted 10 acres (40,468.6 m²) of her land in WaikīkīWaikiki
Waikiki is a neighborhood of Honolulu, in the City and County of Honolulu, on the south shore of the island of Oahu, in Hawaii. Waikiki Beach is the shoreline fronting Waikīkī....
where Kaiulani's father Archibald Cleghorn
Archibald Cleghorn
Archibald Scott Cleghorn was a Scottish businessman who married into the royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaii....
built the Ainahau Estate. Kaiulani gave Ruth the pen name of Mama Nui meaning "great mother". Ruth insisted that the princess be raised to one day be fit to sit on the Hawaiian throne. Ruth's death in 1883 was the first of many deaths that Kaiulani would witness in her short life.
Defender of Tradition
Ruth was a staunch defender of ancient HawaiiAncient Hawaii
Ancient Hawaii refers to the period of Hawaiian human history preceding the unification of the Kingdom of Hawaii by Kamehameha the Great in 1810. After being first settled by Polynesian long-distance navigators sometime between AD 300–800, a unique culture developed. Diversified agroforestry and...
an traditions and customs. While the kingdom became Christianized, Anglicized, and urbanized, she preferred to live as a noble woman of antiquity. While her royal estates were filled with elegant palaces and mansions built for her family, she chose to live in a large traditional stone-raised grass house. While she understood English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and spoke it well, she used the Hawaiian language
Hawaiian language
The Hawaiian language is a Polynesian language that takes its name from Hawaii, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed. Hawaiian, along with English, is an official language of the state of Hawaii...
exclusively, requiring English-speakers to use a translator. Although trained in the Christian religion and given a Christian name, she honored practices considered pagan, such as patronage of chanters and hula
Hula
Hula is a dance form accompanied by chant or song . It was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there. The hula dramatizes or portrays the words of the oli or mele in a visual dance form....
dancers.
She continued to worship the traditional gods and various aumakua, or ancestral spirits. When Mauna Loa
Mauna Loa
Mauna Loa is one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii in the U.S. state of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, and the largest on Earth in terms of volume and area covered. It is an active shield volcano, with a volume estimated at approximately , although its peak is about lower than that...
erupted in 1880, threatening the city of Hilo with a lava flow, her intercession with the goddess Pele was credited by Hawaiians with saving the city. When the ruling monarchs asked her to pose for official photographs, she often refused. Only a dozen photographs of Ruth are known to exist.
Appearance
Considered a beauty in her youth, she gain weight as she grew older, and a surgery for nasal infection disfigured her nose, although rumors circulated that it was her second husband Davis who had broken her nose in one of their many fights.She adopt some modern ways, such as Victorian fashions in hairstyle and dresses. Christian missionaries caused Hawaiian royal women to become self-conscious about their Hawaiian looks. They were uncomfortable with their dark skin and large bodies which had been considered signs of nobility for centuries. No matter how Westernized their manners, they were seen as a "Hawaiian squaw." By the last half of the 19th century, Hawaiian women were going in two different directions. Many European men married Hawaiian women they found exotic, favoring those who were thin and had pale complexions.
Ruth defied this ideal, weighing 440 lbs and over 6 feet (1.8 m) tall. Her broad features were accentuated by a nose flattened by surgery for an infection. To add on to her stature, listeners described Princess Ruth's voice as a "distant rumble of thunder." The U.S. minister to Hawaii dismissed the princess as a "woman of no intelligence or ability." In addition to her giant size, she rejected English and the Christian faith. Her clear defense of the old ways caused Westerners to think she was backward and stupid.
Government and business
On the contrary, as Governor of Hawaii IslandHawaii (island)
The Island of Hawaii, also called the Big Island or Hawaii Island , is a volcanic island in the North Pacific Ocean...
and heir to the vast Kamehameha estate, she had more power and wealth than most women in other parts of the world. For example, American women could not even vote at the time. Ruth's assertiveness were characteristic of her ancestors. She hired businessmen such as Sam Parker
Samuel Parker (Hawaii)
Samuel Parker, known as Kamuela Parker was a major landowner and businessman on the island of Hawaii, heir to the Parker Ranch estate...
and Rufus Anderson Lyman
Rufus Anderson Lyman
Rufus Anderson Lyman was a son of a missionary who became a lawyer and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii, founded the Paauhau Sugar Plantation Company, and had many notable descendants.-Life:...
who were descended from Americans to help her adapt to the new rules for land ownership. Instead of selling the land, she offered long-term leases, which encouraged settlers to start successful family farms, and gave her a secure income.
She was a shrewd businesswoman. In a notorious case, she sold Claus Spreckels
Claus Spreckels
Claus Spreckels, formally Adolph Claus J. Spreckels , , was a major industrialist in Hawai'i during the kingdom, republican and territorial periods of the islands' history...
her claims to the Crown Lands
Ceded lands
In Hawaii, the term "ceded lands" refers to 1.8 million acres of land that were the crown lands of the Hawaiian monarchy prior to January 17, 1893, lotted out by Kamehameha III during the Great Mahele. On this date, the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom was overthrown by anti-monarchial...
for $10,000. The lands were worth $750,000, but she knew her claims to them were worthless, since it had been decided in previous court cases that the lands were only entitled to whoever held the office of monarch.
In 1847 she was appointed to the Privy Council
Privy council
A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government. The word "privy" means "private" or "secret"; thus, a privy council was originally a committee of the monarch's closest advisors to give confidential advice on...
of Kamehameha III, and served from 1855 through 1857 in the House of Nobles
Legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom
The Legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom was the bicameral legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii. A royal legislature was first provided by the 1840 Constitution and the 1852 Constitution was the first to use the term "Legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom", and the first to subject the monarch to...
. January 15, 1855 she was appointed to be the Royal Governor of the Island of Hawaii
Royal Governors of Hawaii
The Governor of Hawaii was the royal governor or viceroy of the Island of Hawaii during the Kingdom of Hawaii. The Governor of Hawaii was usually a Hawaiian chief or prince and could even be a woman. There were no restriction of women in government in the House of Nobles or Governship of the islands...
, where she served until March 2, 1874.
When her last half-brother Kamehameha V
Kamehameha V
aloghaKamehameha V , born as Lot Kapuāiwa, reigned as monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1863 to 1872. His motto was "Onipa`a": immovable, firm, steadfast or determined; he worked diligently for his people and kingdom and was described as the last great traditional chief...
died in 1872 leaving no heir to the throne, her controversial family background prevented her from being a serious contender to be monarch herself. Although she was considered a member of the royal family, along with Queen Emma
Queen Emma of Hawaii
Queen Consort Emma Kalanikaumakaamano Kaleleonālani Naea Rooke of Hawaii was queen consort of King Kamehameha IV from 1856 to his death in 1863. She ran for ruling monarch against King David Kalākaua but was defeated....
and the king's father. In 1874, King Lunalilo
Lunalilo
Lunalilo, born William Charles Lunalilo , was king of the Kingdom of Hawaii from January 8, 1873 until February 3, 1874...
then died, and the legislature elected Kalākaua as king, the first to be not descended from Kamehameha I. Keʻelikōlani was not declared as a member of the royal family, merely as a high chiefess by the new king. The young William Pitt Leleiohoku was named Crown prince
Crown Prince
A crown prince or crown princess is the heir or heiress apparent to the throne in a royal or imperial monarchy. The wife of a crown prince is also titled crown princess....
, and history might have been very different if he had lived past 1877 and became a wealthy king. Instead, the increase reliance of the royal family on the treasury and governmental pensions to fund their lavish expenses is generally considered one factor that led to the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893.
She died at Huliheʻe Palace, Kailua Kona, Hawaii Island, May 15, 1883. Her body was shipped back to Honolulu for a royal funeral, and she was buried in the Kamehameha Crypt of the Royal Mausoleum
Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii
The Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii, known as Mauna Ala in the Hawaiian language, is the final resting place of Hawaii's two prominent royal families: the Kamehameha Dynasty and the Kalākaua Dynasty.-Description:...
, Mauna Ala, in Nuuanu Valley, Oahu. Her will had only one major bequest: to Princess Pauahi the elaborate mansion, Keōua Hale
Keoua Hale
Keōua Hale was the palace of Princess Ruth Keelikōlani at 1302 Queen Emma Street in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii.- History :The mansion was built upon the site of Princess Ruth and her adoptive son Leleiohoku's residence in Honolulu, Kaakopua. It burned down in 1873 and plans were made to build a...
on Emma Street in Honolulu, as well as approximately 353000 acres (1,428.5 km²) of Kamehameha lands. This totaled nearly nine percent of the land in the Hawaiian Islands.
Legacy
During her life, Ruth was the largest and the richest woman in Hawaii. She owned most of the land passed down by her Kamehameha relatives including estates once owned by Queen Kaahumanu and Ruth's first husband Leleiohoku ILeleiohoku I
William Pitt Leleiohoku I was a Hawaiian noble during the Kingdom of Hawaii who married two notable princesses and served as Royal Governor of Hawaii island. On King Kalākaua's trip around the world, he noted that the Sultan of Johor resembled Leleiohoku.Leleiohoku was born on March 31, 1821 in...
. Her estate became the endowment of the Kamehameha Schools
Kamehameha Schools
Kamehameha Schools , formerly called Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate , is a private co-educational college-preparatory institution that specializes in Native Hawaiian language and cultural education. It is located in Hawaii and operates three campuses: Kapālama , Pukalani , and Keaau...
. On these lands downtown Honolulu
Downtown Honolulu
Downtown Honolulu is the current historic, economic, governmental, and central part of Honolulu—bounded by Nuuanu Stream to the west, Ward Avenue to the east, Vineyard Boulevard to the north, and Honolulu Harbor to the south—situated within the larger Honolulu District...
, Hickam Air Force Base
Hickam Air Force Base
Hickam Field, re-named Hickam Air Force Base in 1948, was a United States Air Force facility now part of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, named in honor of aviation pioneer Lt Col Horace Meek Hickam.- History :...
, part of Honolulu International Airport
Honolulu International Airport
Honolulu International Airport is the principal aviation gateway of the City & County of Honolulu and the State of Hawaii and is identified as one of the busiest airports in the United States, with traffic now exceeding 21 million passengers a year and rising.It is located in the Honolulu...
, Moana Hotel
Moana Hotel
The Moana Hotel, also known as the First Lady of Waikīkī, is a famous historic hotel on the island of Oahu, located at 2365 Kalākaua Avenue in Honolulu, Hawaii. Built in the late 19th century as the first hotel in Waikiki, the Moana opened its doors to guests in 1901, becoming the first large hotel...
, Princess Kaiulani Hotel
Ainahau
Āinahau was the royal estate of Princess Victoria Kaiulani, heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii.- History :Located in Waikīkī, the 10 acre estate was deeded to the toddler Kaiulani by her godmother, Princess Ruth Keelikolani. Archibald Cleghorn, Kaiulani's Scottish father and former royal...
, Royal Hawaiian Hotel
Royal Hawaiian Hotel
Royal Hawaiian Hotel, also known as the Pink Palace of the Pacific, is a hotel located at 2259 Kalākaua Avenue in Honolulu, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. One of the first hotels established in Waikiki, the Royal Hawaiian Hotel is considered one of the flagship hotels in Hawaii tourism...
, among others, were built.
A documentary film was made of her life in 2004. As a tribute to her traditionalism, a version of the film was produced in the Hawaiian language.
See also
- Huliheʻe PalaceHulihee PalaceThe Hulihee Palace is located in historic Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on Alii Drive. The former vacation home of Hawaiian royalty, it was converted to a museum run by the Daughters of Hawaii, showcasing furniture and artifacts.-History:...
– Kailua-Kona home of Princess Ruth - Keōua HaleKeoua HaleKeōua Hale was the palace of Princess Ruth Keelikōlani at 1302 Queen Emma Street in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii.- History :The mansion was built upon the site of Princess Ruth and her adoptive son Leleiohoku's residence in Honolulu, Kaakopua. It burned down in 1873 and plans were made to build a...
– Palace of Princess Ruth