Here is what Fornander has to say about Menehune and their connection to Kanaka:
"O Ku-a-mu, go thou to [name of victim],
Enter him, head and tail,
Let him become your bread and meat,
Return not again until he is devoured of worms.

"By his chiefess wife Mee-haku-lani (Mee heavenly lord) or Mee-hiwa (-black), Lua-nu‘u becomes the father of the Menehune people, 'a numerous and powerful race from whom the present race of Hawaiians is descended.' The older branch of the Menehune are descended from Aholoholo, a wanderer, the younger branch from a son called Ka-imi-puku-ku or Kinilau-a-Mano (Many descendants of Mano). There are twelve "sons" in all of whom Luanu‘u becomes ancestor (equated by Fornander with the twelve sons of Toho [Toko] in Marquesan legends from two of whom, Atea and Tane, the Marquesans count descent). From one of these twelve descends Hawaii-loa the navigator."