Vuanirewa information

The Vuanirewa is the ruling tribe (yavusa) of the Lau Islands, a scattered group of more than a hundred islands (16 inhabited) and reefs along the eastern...

Chief. He had an instrumental role in maintaining the fortunes of the Vuanirewa under the reign of his relative Malani. Delailoa was a son of the Chief...

the United Kingdom in 1874. Other prominent chiefly clans include the Vuanirewa (the traditional rulers of the Lau Islands) and the Ai So'ula (the traditional...

disclaimed as a Tongan Prince by his cousin King George Tupou I. Since the Vuanirewa Clan of the Lau Islands considered Ma'afu as their own, they therefore...

portal Tarau of Totoya was the first wife of Niumataiwalu, founder of the Vuanirewa dynasty of the Lau Islands (in Fiji). Tarau was the mother of Sivoki,...

Dranivia was an 18th-century Lauan chief and noble of the Vuanirewa dynasty. He was the third son of Uluilakeba I and last recorded member of the noble...

a member of the Lau archipelago. It was the ancestral island of the Vuanirewa Clan, who were later exiled to the nearby island of Lakeba.[citation needed]...

Kalouyalewa’s sons would eventually play a crucial role in enabling the Vuanirewa Dynasty to succeed to the titles Roko Sau and Tui Nayau. His famous grandson...

before succeeding to it. As such Adi Maopa was a member of the ruling Vuanirewa dynasty, belonging to the noble house Matailakeba. Her mother was Adi...

it is considered the capital of the Lau Islands, being the seat of the Vuanirewa clan, a powerful chiefly family from which Fiji's longtime Prime Minister...

Toki Soroaqali was a Lauan chief and member of the noble dynasty of Vuanirewa in Fiji, active in the late 1700s and early 1800s. He was the second son...

following the traditional process of consultation between the Yavusa Vuanirewa and the endorsement of the Tui Nayau, Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba III following...

chiefly family. Her father, Roko Lenaitasi Gucake was from the Yavusa Vuanirewa, the ruling tribe of the Lau islands, and belonged to the Noble Vatuwaqa...

hereditary, the title is traditionally held by a male in the chiefly Vuanirewa Clan, a tradition his father reportedly wanted upheld. One village elder...

(the First) (1842–1901), Vunivalu of Bau Niumataiwalu, founder of the Vuanirewa dynasty in the Lau Islands Rasolo, first Tui Nayau Rokocegu, Maculeku...

old Lau Fijian Communal Constituency. She confirmed that the chiefly Vuanirewa clan, of which her late father was Paramount Chief, had asked her to stand...

son of Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba III, Tui Nayau and head of the chiefly Vuanirewa clan of Tubou, Lakeba and Lusiana Qolikoro from the Fonolahi Family of...

factions and Matawalu was killed. Matawalu married Siri of Waitabu and from him is descended the majority of the Koroicumu household of the Vuanirewa clan....

on what was left of his carcase. And that is why the custom with the Vuanirewa clan to this day are forbidden from the meat of the white tipped coral...

Adi Lalaciwa was a Fijian chiefess and member of the Vuanirewa dynasty on the Lau Islands of Fiji. Lalaciwa was the only daughter of Rasolo, who was the...

considered to be the progenitor of the noble household Vatuwaqa in the chiefly Vuanirewa clan and as such, was the first member of this noble household to hold...

Islands, as its original holders were from the island of Lakeba (pre-Vuanirewa dynasty). The first recorded holder of the title was Qilaiso and through...

the Tui Kaba Registration of Births (Vola ni Kawa Bula) to that of the Vuanirewa Registration in Lakeba, Lau under their mother, Adi Litiana Maopa, who...

Lau comes from the Tongan community in Sawana and is then handed to the Vuanirewa clan on the island of Lakeba for a final decision Islands portal Oceania...

Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba III (October 4, 1898 – October 4, 1966) was the 12th Tui Nayau and Sau ni Vanua of the Lau Islands. He was the father of Ratu Sir...

recommendation of the Yavusa Tonga and the endorsement of the Tui Nayau from the Vuanirewa clan. Ratu Mara was the last Tui Lau and this position remains vacant...

Lakeba is known as a chiefly island, being the home island of the chiefly Vuanirewa clan, which is based in Tubou. The head of this clan takes the title of...

from the chiefly village of Tubou, on Lakeba, making him a member of the Vuanirewa, the ruling household of the Lau Islands Fisher, D. (15 January 2006)...

or Vuakaloa campaign, the conquer of the chiefly Kedekede fort of the Vuanirewa clan in Lakeba, Lau and the conquer of the whole of Vanua Levu (Cakaudrove...