Kalokuokamaile III

Prince Noa Kalokuokamaile DeGuire or Kalokuokamaile III (born November 19, 1981), is the current head of the House of Keoua Nui along with his mother Owana Salazar who is the pretending Kuhina Nui or co-ruler. His father was Mr. Kaipo DeGuire, the second husband of his mother. His elder half-sister is the Princess Kapumahana Ka'ahumanu Walters.

He is a claimant prince of the Kingdom of Hawaii. His claim to be the rightful heir to the throne of the lapsed Kingdom of Hawaii or rather the House of Kamehameha. His claim derives through his maternal great-great grandmother Theresa Owana Laanui who was great-great-great granddaughter of Keoua Kalanikupuapaikalaninui the father of king Kamehameha the Great. [ [http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Hawaii/wilcox.htm WILCOX ] ]

He is descended from many of the separate island chiefs with very distant connection to the Kauaian royals, unlike the Kawananakoas who descend from the island's last king. He descend from the chiefs of Hana, Kipahulu, Kaupo on the island of Maui and even the Mois of Maui. He descends from the chiefs of Kona, Kohala, Waimea and the Big Island alii aimokus. His family onced possessed a wonderful kapu entirely different from, and never known to exist among, any other chief families of the Hawaiian Islands. Though definitely not praticed by the family today, it was styled "Ka Poo hoolewa i ka La," and inherited from Kaakaualaninui, the grandmother of Kalahumoku, ancestor of Prince Noa and father of Kahikikalaokalani. It signified the laying of the head toward the sun's position in the heavens from its rising unto it's setting. Days for the observance of this kapu were strictly kept. The only time for recreation during the kapu must be taken from between the setting of luminary and the dawn of a new day.

In 1986 the sovereignty group Ka Lahui recognized Noa's grandmother as ali`i nui (the ranking one) "because of the genealogies, because she was the great grandniece of Princess Elizabeth Kekaaniau, because she was the granddaughter of Princess Theresa Laanui, and all of the documentation that shows that we are the Royal Family." Before his grandmother Princess Helena's death 1988, she named Owana Kuhina nui and her son, Prince Noa as Ali'i nui with the regal title of Kalokuokamaile III already bore by his ancestor Kalokuokamaile and Helena herself. [ [http://www.hawaii-nation.org/midweek-owana.html Battle Royal - Hawaii - MidWeek Cover Story ] ] In 1998, Prince Noa and his mother withdrew themselves from an exclusive relationship with Ka Lahui Hawaii.

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* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~royalty/hawaii/i310.html#I310 Rootsweb]