Kamaka Stillman
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| name = Kamaka Stillman
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| image = Kamaka Stillman by Alonzo Gartley (Bishop Museum SP 90740).jpg
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| spouse = Henry Martyn Stillman
| issue = Rose Kapuakomela McInerny
Oliver Kawailahaole Stillman
Charles Keonaona Stillman
Jennie Kapahukalaunu Smythe
Helen Anianiku Cushingham
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| father = Kekahili
| mother = Kapiimoku
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1823|1|1}}
| birth_place = Hawaii (island)
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1924|7|25|1823|1|1}}
| death_place = Honolulu, Oahu
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| burial_place = Oahu Cemetery
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Ke Aliʻi Kamaka Oukamakaokawaukeoiopiopio Stillman (1833–1924) was an aliʻi (hereditary noble) of the Kingdom of Hawaii{{cite book|author1=Charmian London|author2=Jack London|title=The New Hawaii|url=https://archive.org/details/newhawaii00lond|year=1923|publisher=Mills & Boon, limited|page= [https://archive.org/details/newhawaii00lond/page/115 115]}} as well a prominent figure after its overthrow through equestrianism as a Paʻu rider in the Kamehameha Day celebrations{{cite book|title=The Planter and Sugar Manufacturer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MDQ_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA365|year=1906|page=365}} as well as an acknowledged authority on Hawaiian genealogy and oral chants.{{cite book|author=Edward Joesting|title=Tides of Commerce|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BEQ8BZ-6Rm8C|year=1983|publisher=First Hawaiian|page=44}} She is descended from Kahaopuolani, the aliʻi wahine (noble mother) who had hidden Kamehameha I as a baby and raised him for years in Kohala, Hawaiʻi along with his brother and her own children.{{cite book|title=Paradise of the Pacific|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4f7kAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA19|year=1906|page=19}} Stillman published a response to a 1911, Hawaiian Newspaper account of the birth of Kamehameha the Great, correcting information from the oral traditions handed down within the Kahala family.{{cite book|author=Hawaiian Historical Society|title=Annual Report of the Hawaiian Historical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jlVFAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA4-PA6|year=1904|publisher=The Society|pages=6–8}}
Family
Kamaka is a great granddaughter of Kaukane (w) who was the daughter of Ke Aliʻi Kahaopuolani, the caretaker of the infant Kamehameha I. She was the mother of Jane "Jennie" Smythe{{cite book|author=George S. Kanahele|title=Emma: Hawaiʻiʾs Remarkable Queen : a Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xWV0AAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Queen Emma Foundation|page= 391|isbn=978-0-8248-2234-7}} who served as a lady-in-waiting for Queen Emma.{{cite book|last=Taylor|first=Albert Pierce|authorlink=Albert Pierce Taylor|title=Under Hawaiian Skies: A Narrative of the Romance, Adventure and History of the Hawaiian Islands|url=https://archive.org/details/underhawaiiansk00taylgoog|year=1922|publisher=Advertiser Publishing Company, Ltd|location=Honolulu|oclc=479709|page=[https://archive.org/details/underhawaiiansk00taylgoog/page/n415 321]}} She was a part of every royal funeral cortege since she was a very young girl.{{cite book|author=Lori Kamae|title=The Empty Throne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHDxAAAAMAAJ|date=June 1980|publisher=Topgallant Pub. Co.|page= 20|isbn=978-0-914916-44-4}} The Stillman family, a wealthy banking family from New York lived in a large house on School Street, facing Stillman Lane.{{cite book|author=John Dominis Holt|title=Recollections: memoirs of John Dominis Holt, 1919–1935|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HnDxAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Ku Paʻa|page= 70|isbn=9780681027831}} Henry Stillman was the son of Levi Stillman and his second wife Magaret Chapin.{{cite book|author=Francis Duane Stillman|title=The Stillman family: descendants of Mr. George Stillman of Wethersfield, Connecticut and Dr. George Stillman of Westerly, Rhode Island|url=https://archive.org/details/stillmanfamilyde00stil|url-access=registration|year=1989|publisher=F.D. Stillman|page= [https://archive.org/details/stillmanfamilyde00stil/page/n34 1844]}} Kamaka married Stillman in 1860.{{cite book|author=Shirley Hune|title=Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zn9Z6fbh6RYC&pg=PA32|date=1 August 2003|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-3632-6|page=32}}
Henry and Kamaka had five children, Rose Kapuakomela,[https://nupepa-hawaii.com/2018/06/14/genealogy-of-kahaopulani-1911/ He Hooponopono Moo Kuauhau Ke Au Hou, Buke 2, Helu 23, Aoao 19. Iune 7, 1911] Oliver Kawailahaole Stillman born February 8, 1861, Helen Anianku Stillman born September 3, 1862, Charles Keonaona Stillman born June 1864 and Jane Kapakukalauna Stillman born January 19, 1869.{{cite web|title=Children of Henry Martyn Stillman|url=http://www.stillman.org/f1227.htm|website=Stillman Genealogy home page|publisher=Stillman.org|accessdate=6 July 2015}}
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