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?–1910Waikato leader, newspaper editor, warrior, secretary to the Maori King
Te Tuhi was born in Waikato. He belonged to Ngāti Mahuta. His father was Paratene Te Maioha, a cousin of Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, the first Māori King. Te Tuhi was a second cousin of Tāwhiao, Te Wherowhero's successor, and served him as editor, warrior, secretary and adviser.
In his youth...
Story: Te Tuhi, Wiremu Pātara
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?–1866Taranaki leader, prophet, religious founder
Te Ua Haumēne was the founder and prophet of the Hauhau church, the first organised expression of an independent Māori Christianity. He was born into the Taranaki tribe at Waiaua, in South Taranaki, in the early 1820s. His father, who died shortly after, was Tūtawake, and his mother, Paihaka....
Story: Te Ua Haumēne
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1892–1966Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki leader, genealogist, orator
Hetekia Te Kani te Ua, the eldest son of Katerina Takawhaki Kerekere and her husband, Harawira Tūhoe te Ua, was born on 29 August 1892 in Gisborne. His principal tribal affiliations were Ngā Pōtiki and Te Whānau-a-Kai of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki; Ngāti Ruapani; and Te Whānau-a-Tarawaho, a hapū of...
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?–1847Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi youth, political prisoner
Hōhepa Te Umuroa was a member of Ngāti Hau of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi. He may have been born in the early 1820s. The names of his parents are not known. He grew to be a tall man of over six feet, with a fine, large head and an incomplete moko on the left side of his face. According to his...
Story: Te Umuroa, Hōhepa
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?–1838Ngāti Hauā leader
The father of Te Waharoa was Tangimoana of Ngāti Hauā. His mother was Te Kahurangi. The brother of Tangimoana, Taipōrutu, was killed at the gateway of Te Kawau pā, near the mouth of the Tongapōrutu River, in the late eighteenth century, and his young nephew was named Te Waharoa (the gateway) in...
Story: Te Waharoa
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1844/1845?–1929Ngāti Hauā leader, kingmaker, King movement leader
Tupu Atanatiu Taingākawa Te Waharoa was the second son of Wiremu Tāmihana Tarapīpipi Te Waharoa and Pare Te Kanawa (Wikitōria). They belonged to Ngāti Hauā, but also had links with Ngāti Hinepare (a hapū of Ngāti Kauwhata) and Ngāti Hikairo. Taingākawa was probably born in 1844 or 1845, at...
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?–1866Ngāti Hauā leader, teacher, diplomat
Tarapīpipi was the second son of Te Waharoa of Ngāti Hauā. His mother was Rangi Te Wiwini. He was born in the early nineteenth century, possibly about 1805, at Tamahere, on the Horotiu plains. As a young man in the 1820s he participated in several war expeditions in the Taranaki and Waikato...
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1882–1920Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Pāhauwera leader, Anglican clergyman, army chaplain
When soldiers of the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion recalled 'the Padre' they spoke with genuine warmth of the Reverend Hēnare Wēpiha Te Wainohu. As chaplain to the Māori troops during the First World War, Te Wainohu made an enduring impression on the soldiers to whom he ministered. At a time...
Story: Te Wainohu, Hēnare Wēpiha
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?–1918Te Rarawa leader, farmer, assessor, catechist
Heremia Te Wake belonged to Ngāti Manawa, a hapu of Te Kaitūtae and Te Rarawa. He was born at Te Karaka in the Hokianga district, probably in the 1830s, the son of William Hoard (known to his Māori family as Pire Hoa), a deserter from an American whaling ship, and Te Oki, a high-ranking woman...
Story: Te Wake, Heremia
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?–1839Ngāpuhi leader
Hauraki was the son of Kaitara, a principal leader of Ngāti Hineira and Te Uri Taniwha, of Ngāpuhi. In his youth Hauraki lived in Pukenui pā, Te Ahuahu, in the Bay of Islands. One wife of Kaitara was Inu, of Ngāti Pou; it is possible that she was Hauraki's mother. As young men Hauraki and his...
Story: Te Wera Hauraki
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1861/1862?–1918Ngāti Kahungunu leader, farmer, historian
Irāia Te Whāiti, also known as Irāia Te Ama and Te Ama-o-te-rangi, was born in south Wairarapa, probably in 1861 or 1862. He was the eldest child of Te Rangihakahaka Te Whāiti and Hine-ki-te-rangi, both of Ngāti Kahungunu of Wairarapa. His mother was the sister of Hoani Parāone Tūnuiārangi, a...
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1863–1937Ngāti Kahungunu woman of mana
Kaihau Te Rangikakapi Maikara Āporo was born, according to family information, in 1863, probably in the lower Wairarapa Valley. She was the eldest child of Maikara Paranihia and her husband, Hōhepa Āporo, who was the younger brother of Piripi Te Maari-o-te-rangi. Through her father she was...
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1890–1964Ngāti Kahungunu leader, farmer, community leader
Teoti Kerei Te Hioirangi Te Whāiti was born, according to family information, in 1890 at Pirinoa, Wairarapa. He was the third son in a family of thirteen children of Irāia Te Ama-o-te-rangi Te Whāiti, a Ngāti Kahungunu leader, farmer and historian, and his wife, Kaihau Te Rangikakapi Maikara...
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fl. 1826–1834Ngāi Tahu leader
Te Whakataupuka of Ngāi Tahu was born probably in Murihiku (the southern part of the South Island), late in the eighteenth century. His Ngāi Tahu grandfather, Te Hau-tapunui-o-Tū, was instrumental in securing peace between Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe in the late eighteenth century. His father,...
Story: Te Whakataupuka
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?–1842Te Āti Awa leader
Te Wharepōuri, known as Te Kakapi-o-te-rangi in his youth, was born probably not long before 1800, and grew up in Taranaki. His mother was Hine-i-te-uru, senior wife of Te Whiti-o-Rongomai II, fourth child of Aniwaniwa, son of Te Whiti-o-Rongomai I and husband of Tāwhirikura. By the 1830s...
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?–1846Ngāti Raukawa leader
Te Whatanui, sometimes known as Te Whata, Toheāpare, or Toheata, was the son of Tihao of Ngāti Huia and Ngāti Parewahawaha, two hapū of Ngāti Raukawa. His mother was Pareraukawa, elder sister of Hape or Hape-ki-tūārangi of Ngāti Raukawa and Ngāti Huia. Hape died at Maungatautari, the heartland...
Story: Te Whatanui
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?–1907Tūhoe chief, builder and carver
Te Whenuanui was born in the early nineteenth century at Maungapōhatu, near Lake Waikaremoana, the son of Te Umuariki and Tīkina. He belonged to the Tūhoe hapū, Te Urewera, and to Ngāti Rongo. He married Te Ākiu of Ngāti Koura, with whom he had two children. His father was killed at Whāngārā on...
Story: Te Whenuanui
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?–1895Waikato leader, assessor, soldier, native commissioner, mediator, politician, diplomat
Te Wheoro, who was later also known as Wiremu Te Mōrehu (William Morris) or Rehu, and also as Maipapa, was born in Waikato. His mother was Ngāpawa, and his father was Te Kanawa. Through Ngāpawa, Te Wheoro was descended from Te Whatu-o-te-rangi and Parengāope. He married Pākia and they appear to...
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1886/1887?–1937Ngāti Mahuta woman of mana
Piupiu Te Wherowhero was born, probably in 1886 or 1887, at Whatiwhatihoe, Waikato. She was the daughter of Te Wherowhero Tāwhiao of Ngāti Mahuta, the third child and second son of the second Māori King, Tāwhiao Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero. Her mother was Tamirangi Manahi of Ngāti Tamaoho...
Story: Te Wherowhero, Piupiu
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?–1860Waikato leader, warrior, Māori King
Te Wherowhero was born in Waikato towards the end of the eighteenth century. He was the eldest son of a Waikato warrior chief, Te Rauangaanga, and Parengāope of Ngāti Koura. He belonged to the senior chiefly line of Ngāti Mahuta, and was descended from the captains of the Tainui and Te Arawa...
Story: Te Wherowhero, Pōtatau