Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 22, Number 10, 1 October 2005 — Pauahi's family [ARTICLE]

Pauahi's family

The Kamehameha Schools/ Bernice Pauahi Bishop issue seems simple to fix. Pauahi, a great granddaughter of Kamehameha I, inherited some of his lands from her cousin Ruth Ke'elikōlani. Ruth had no children and thus left everything to Pauahi. Pauahi had no children from her marriage to Charles Bishop, so she left everything she inherited to the children of Hawai'i, her blood relatives, most probably from one of the other six wives of her greatgrandfather, Kamehameha I, thus her family, nieces and nephews. If all students applying for admission into Kamehameha Schools also had their DNA tested, I believe it would show descent from a eonunon ancestor, Kamehameha I. Then it isn't a racial issue at all, but just about family. Miehael Sheehan Hu'uanu, O'ahu