Early Years
Owana Salazar was born October 30, 1953. Her mother was Helena Kalokuokamaile Wilcox, the ranking member of the House of Keoua Nui, through the branch of Laanui-Kalokuokamaile. Her maternal great-great-grandaunt was High Chiefess Elizabeth Kekaʻaniauokalaninuihilaukapu Laʻanui, and her great-grandmother, Princess Theresa Owana Kaohelelani Laanui was a great-great-great granddaughter of Keoua Kalanikupuapaikalaninui, the father of King Kamehameha I. She was the granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Rives, a French native who had come to the islands as a boy in 1819 and become an interpreter and aide to the royal family.
Her father was Henry Mario Salazar, descendant of a noble house from Spain. She was raised on the island of Oahu in her Spanish, Hawaiian, English, French and Italian culture. Her early years were immersed in music and family history as taught to her by her mother. The only girl in a family of five, Owana grew up with a sense of place. "Our family discussions were vast... about many of our ancestors, about their roles in Hawaiiʻs history, about the crown lands, about Robert Wilcox, about Princess Theresa going to Washington, about Princess Elizabeth going to Washington to petition Congress to survey the crown lands."
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