Ahukinialaa

Ahukini-a-Laokinaa was the 4th Alii Aimoku of Kauai. He ruled as titular King or chief of Kauai.

Ahukini-a-Laa was the second of the three sons of Laamaikahiki, the third king of Kauai and the first of the Oahu Paumakua line which supplanted the old Maweke-Moikeha line. Of Ahukini-a-Laa no legend remains. His wife was Hai-a-Kamaio, granddaughter of Luaehu, one of the southern emigrant chiefs during the last migratory period. Their son was Kamahano, who succeed his father as King of Kauai. [Fornander. p. 92]

On the exploits and achievements of the Kauai sovereigns and chiefs during this period the ancient legends are very incomplete. The line of sovereigns or Mois seems to have been kept, without exception, in that branch of the Laamaikahiki family which descended through his second son, Ahukini-a-Laa. How the dynastic differences between the older and powerful Puna and Maweke families, separately or jointly through Moikeha's children, and the comparatively later Laamaikahiki descendants, were settled so as to confirm the sovereignty in the line of the latter, there are no record of. Certain it is that the older lines had not become extinct, for their scions were referred to in much later times as enjoying a degree of tabu and consideration which greatly enhanced the dignity of the Ahukini-a-Laa descendants when joined with them in marriage. [Fornander. p. 92]

During the time of Ahukini-a-Laa and his descendants, the island of Niihau bore about the same political relation to the Moi of Kauai as the island of Lanai did to the Moi of Maui—independent at times, acknowledging his suzerainty at others. No historical event connected with Niihau during this period has been preserved, nor any genealogy of its chiefs. Springing from and intimately connected with the Kauai chiefs, there was a community of interests and a political adhesion which, however strained at times by internal troubles, never made default as against external foes. [Fornander. p. 94-95]

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* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~barbpretz/ps01/ps01_261.html Ahukini-A-La'a]
*Abraham Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origin and Migrations, Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969.