Kalanipehu

[1] Before his reign, this island had been ruled by his ancestors, who were descendants of Chief Keʻoloʻewa-a-Kamauaua and Chiefess Nuakea.

[2] The scholar Abraham Fornander implied that he was a descendant of Kamauaua, but it is not clear through whom.

Kalanipehu's daughter Kumakakaha married Kuikai, the chief of Puna who had moved to Molokaʻi.

He was closely related to the ruling chiefs or Aliʻi of Hawaiʻi.

[4] At the end of the 17th and in the early 18th century, the independence and autonomy of the island of Molokaʻi were destroyed.