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Biography: Tāwhiao, Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

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Bibliography

Adams, T., N. Te Uira, and A. Parsonson. '"Behold, a kite flies towards you': the Kiingatanga and the "opening" of the King Country.New Zealand Journal of History 31, No 1 (1997):  99–116

Belgrave, M. Dancing with the king: the rise and fall of the King Country, 1864–1885. Auckland, 2017

Jones, P. Te H. 'Maori Kings'. In The Maori people in the nineteen-sixties. Ed. E. Schwimmer. Auckland, 1968

King, M. Te Puea. Auckland, 1977

O'Malley, V. The great war for New Zealand: Waikato 1800–2000. Wellington, 2016

Obit. Auckland Star. 27 Aug. 1894

Parsonson, A. R. 'Te mana o te kingitanga Maori: a study of Waikato–Ngatimaniapoto relations during the struggle for the King Country, 1878–84'. MA thesis, Canterbury, 1972

How to cite this page

R. T. Mahuta. 'Tāwhiao, Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1993, updated July 2011. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/128721/sources (accessed 11 June 2026).