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{{quote|How I received my Hawaiian name, Piʻehu, was told to me by my aunt, Keliʻiʻaipala. It came about quite unexpectedly on the day my uncle took me to see the King. At the door of the King's chambers, I pulled on my uncle's hand and tried to hold back. I was a little afraid of the King because he wore a beard, and never having seen anyone wearing one before, I tried to hide behind the door. The King, seeing me, said in Hawaiian to my uncle, "Pi maoli kou keiki" ("your child is truly shy".) After my uncle had succeeded in moving nearer to the King, with me still trying to hide behind his legs, the King commented about my complexion being lighter than that of most Hawaiians, saying that I was 'ehu. Apparently, having been impressed with both my shyness and my complexion, the King added, "Haina kou keiki Piʻehu!" ("Name your child, Piʻehu!").{{sfn|Iaukea|Watson|1988|pages=2–3}}}}|group=note}}
Shortly after birth, he was adopted by his maternal uncle Kaihupaʻa to be raised in the Hawaiian custom of ''[[hānai]]'', an informal form of adoption between extended families practiced by Hawaiian royals and commoners alike.{{sfn|Iaukea|1930|pages=17–20}}{{sfn|Kanahele|1999|pages=1–4}} His uncle had been educated by the American Protestant missionary [[Levi Chamberlain]] and had served his entire life as a personal assistant and servant to King [[Kamehameha III]] and later his successor Kamehameha IV. Iaukea was taken to the kingdom's capital at [[Honolulu]] to live with Kaihupaʻa and his wife Keliaipala. They lived near the grounds of the old [[ʻIolani Palace]], in the building of the former [[Royal School (Hawaii)|Royal School]]. Renamed Halepoepoe (meaning circular or round house), this building had been turned into a home for royal retainers and the ''kahu'' (caretakers) for the reigning King [[Kamehameha IV]]. Around the time he was five or six, Iaukea fell into a well and his uncle Kaihupaʻa broke his foot in the process of saving him, later dying from the injuries he sustained.{{sfn|Iaukea|1930|pages=17–20}}
== Childhood and education ==
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== Further reading ==
*{{cite book|last=Dukas|first=Neil Bernard|title=A Military History of Sovereign Hawaiʻi|year=2004|publisher=Mutual Publishing Company|location=Honolulu|isbn=978-1-56647-636-2|oclc=56195693}}
*{{cite journal|last=Iaukea|first=Curtis P.|title=Japanese in Hawaii|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000065058|journal=The Mid-Pacific Magazine|volume=48|year=1935|publisher=T. H., A. H. Ford; [[Pan-Pacific Union]], Pan-Pacific Research Institution|pages=87–88|oclc=145158315}}
*{{cite book|last=Schweizer|first=Niklaus Rudolf|title=His Hawaiian Excellency: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy and the Annexation of Hawai'i|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I96n64BNpH0C|edition=3rd|year=2004|publisher=Peter Lang|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8204-6871-6|oclc=55682174}}
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