Ka Hae Kalaunu o Liliʻuokalani | Unisex Wide Leg Sweatpants - navy

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Wide Leg Sweatpants	'Opu	Kuʻina o waena	Lō'ihi
Ka Hae Kalaunu o Liliʻuokalani	Waist	Inseam	Length
XS	22"	27"	38.5"
S	23"	27.5"	39.5"
M	24"	28"	40"
L	26"	28.5"	42"
XL	28"	29"	43"
2XL	31"	30"	44"

Model is wearing a size xsmall.

Ka Hae Kalaunu o Liliʻuokalani

Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamakaʻeha, Hawaiʻi’s last reigning monarch, was a woman of many talents. A great composer, she wrote the first national anthem He Mele Lāhui Hawaiʻi in 1866. It endured until her brother, King David Kalākaua, wrote Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī in 1876. Liliʻu became heir apparent in 1877 and began traveling. In 1887, she returned from Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in England to find out her brother had been held at gunpoint by the Hawaiian League and forced to sign a new constitution (that was never ratified by the legislature) and change certain cabinet ministers. This was the beginning of the insurgency and a politically hostile climate. That hostility continued as Ka Mōʻī Wahine Liliʻuokalani ascended to the throne on January 29, 1891 and persisted through the overthrow of her government on January 17, 1893. Liliʻu’s royal standard is a flag that represented her status as Hawaiʻi’s sovereign and it flew at ʻIolani palace next to the Hae Hawaiʻi (our national flag). Within days of the overthrow, Colonel John Harris Soper of the PG ordered the removal of the standard and took possession of it. Two years ago, his family attempted to sell it, but Princess Abigail Kawānanakoa purchased it and had it returned home. Liliʻu was beloved by her people who composed several mele for her immediately after the overthrow. They are powerful testaments of aloha aliʻi (love of chiefs) and aloha ʻāina (patriotism). Many of these mele call on Hawaiʻi’s tradtional gods, asking for their mana in the darkest hour of the queen and her nation.

Ka Hae Kalaunu o Liliʻuokalani

He mau lālani kēia no loko mai o “He Wehi No Liliʻulani.”

Aia ka mele piha ma Ka Leo o ka Lahui, 16 Pepeluali 1893:

Kulia ka pule a ke Kahuna

ʻO Kāne Kanaloa mai luna mai

He noi aloha iā Kihawahine

E maliu mai ʻoe i ka leo ualo

Eia kō liko, kō pulapula

Milimili a Hawaiʻi o Keawe

Kākoʻo mai ʻo Maui o Kama

I ka pono nui o Liliʻuokalani

E ʻike ē ka lani me ka ʻōpua

I ka hana a ka ʻōpū lokoʻino

Palea ʻia ka manaʻo lili

Ka manaʻo haʻakei me ka lokoʻino

Ke ʻī mai nei aʻo Haumea

E ola ʻo Hawaiʻi a mau loa

ʻO Liliʻuokalani nō ka Hoʻoilina

Ke poʻo hoʻi o ka noho Kalaunu

Kūkulu paʻa ʻia kō Mākia

ʻOnipaʻa i ka piko o Kākuhihewa

Haʻina ka inoa ua lanakila

ʻO Liliʻu, ʻo Wewehilani i ke Kapu