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Kamehameha Leadership Style

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Kamehameha was a strong ali’i that ruled the Hawaiian Islands. He won many battles like the Battle of Kepaniwai and the Battle of Nu’uanu. Kamehameha was trained by Kekuhaupi’o and he was the nephew of Kalaniopu’u. First, Kamehameha was the ruler of Hawai’i, Big Island and then took the islands one by one even though Kamehameha was not next in line to be high chief of any of the islands. Kamehameha was an effective ruler because he was caring and clever. Kamehameha was an effective ruler because he was caring. Kamehameha was caring because Kamehameha rebuild his land and cleaned the fishponds and making the taro patches (23). He also told the people to make long irrigation ditches (23). This is a good change and is also caring because recovering his land and the fishponds are very thankful to the people living there. And if Kamehameha didn’t fix the taro patches and make ditches, then the village or the land might have been really dirty and many people might have moved away from the place they were living. This is something that changed after the unification because Kamehameha changed the old land, fishponds, and built new things, such as the ditches. Another reason why Kamehameha was an effective ruler is because he was clever. Kamehameha was clever because he put a …show more content…

Kamehameha was caring because he rebuilt his land, cleaned the fish ponds, making the taro patches, and also making long, irrigation ditches. This helped to keep the land clean and sustainable. Another example is, Kamehameha was caring because he put a kapu on young trees used for sandalwood. This is a clever decision because Kamehameha put a kapu so the people won’t spend so much time cutting the trees and the young trees so it will save the natural resources. Hawaii would have been much different if Kamehameha wasn’t a leader at all because the kapu and the way of land system might have changed. Also if Kamehameha wasn’t

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