Finau 'Ulukalala

Fīnau ʻUlukālala (Hot Headed) was a dynasty of six important hereditary chiefs from Vavaʻu (the Tuʻi Vavaʻu), currently in the kingdom of Tonga. Started somewhere in the 18th century, died out in 1960. His original estate was Tuʻanuku, and his nickname and that of the village is Tavakefaiʻana (a species of tropic bird).

Although the first Fīnau (ʻUlukālala I's grandfather, Mataelehaʻamea), had been a Tuʻi Kanokupolu (at that time, around 1650, the most powerful royal dynasty of Tongatapu), his father Tuʻituʻiʻohu was only a younger brother of Maʻafuʻotuʻitonga, the next Tuʻi Kanokupolu. As such Tuʻituʻiʻohu tried his luck in Vavaʻu, where he started the dynasty of the Haʻa Ngatatupu.

This first Fīnau died in 1797 in Maʻufanga, Tongatapu and is therefore also called Fīnau ʻUlukālala I ʻi Maʻofanga (the old form of the name of the village). He was succeeded by his eldest son who would die later in Feletoa, Vavaʻu, and as such is sometimes known as Fīnau ʻUlukālala II ʻi Feletoa, or by his second name: Fangupō.

At the end of the 18th century, due to the unpopularity of the then incumbent Tuʻi Kanokupolu, Tukuʻaho, who was a cruel and arbitrary person, Fīnau Feletoa (ʻUlukālala II) was able to extend his authority to Haʻapai as well, which made him the most powerful chief of whole Tonga at that time. Yet it seems not to have been his intention to take Tongatapu too. It was sufficient for him just to keep the chiefs of that island away from interfering with his Haʻapai and Vavaʻu. For that he was the main originator of the plan to murder the Tuʻi Kanokupolu. With a triumvirate comprising him, Tupouniua and Tupoutoʻa the act was done in April 1799 during the yearly ʻinasi (first-fruits offering) to the Tuʻi Tonga in Muʻa.

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