Individual Details

LINEAGE
A. Conflict: McKinzie, Hawaiian Genealogies, vol 1 p 15 lists mother as Lonokahikini.
Conflict: Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race, vol 2 p 210 states Kaionuilalahai is his grandmother.
Kahekili referred to him as his sister's son (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 133).
B. Fragment: Ancestors were Kalumaluma'i and Kekaihehe'e (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 129).
Fragment: Kahuna Kaopulupulu came to get Kahahana and his mother's cousin Kekela to request permission to extract him from Kahekili's house (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 128).
LIFE
A. "He was taken to Maui in his infancy as the foster son of Kahekili ... He developed into a handsome child with good features and lovely curling hair from which came his nickname "Pi'ipi'i" [curly head]... When he became a man he caused a breach of the tabu by making love to the lesser chiefesses ... and he was called Walia (wale'ia) [an elisiion, meaning 'is degraded']" (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 128).
B. He was joined to Kekuapoiulaokalani in their youth and they "remained true to each other with undivided affection to the end of their lives." (Fornander, Story of Kahahana, p 15).
B. He was "elected Moi of Oahu by the Oahu chiefs after they had deposed Kumahana, the son of Peleiholani, about 1773 (Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race, vol 2 p 154). He ruled 8 1/2 years (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 130). Although he was raised by Kahekili, when he was made ruler of Oahu, Kahekili asked for an area of land on Oahu. However, since Kahahana became ruler by invitation of the chiefs and not by conquest, he was not granted the land to give to Kahekili (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 128-129).
C. He was ruling chief of Oahu and Molokai who came to the aid of Kahekili in the battle against Kalaniopuu on Maui in 1776 (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 87,85).
D. He was killed by his mate's brother Kekuamanoha under orders of Kahekili about 1783 on Oahu (Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race, vol 2 p 223).
Conflict: Fornander, Chronological Table of Events in Hawaiian History and Fornander, Story of Kahahana, p 14 lists the death year as 1785.

Death

Abt 1783

Oahu

Spouse	Kekuapoiula ( - 1791)
Child	Pililua ( - )
Child	Kahele ( - )

Spouse	Kapalikaukini ( - )
Child	Keaiakalani ( - )

Father	Elani ( - 1784)
Mother	Kaionuilalahai ( - )