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Te pakanga i Rangiaowhia

Rangiaowhia

Kei te whakahouhia e mātou te whārangi reo Māori nei

I te hipanga o te taua Pākehā i Pāterangi ka whakaeke rātou i a Rangiaowhia – he kāinga mahi kai nō ngā iwi o Waikato. Nō te atatū o te 21 o ngā rā o Pēpuere 1864 ka kōkiritia te kāinga. I tino ohorere te pā i te kōkiri ā Kānara Marmaduke Nixon me te Ope Hōia Eke Hōiho. I te kāhakitanga o Haihana McHale ki te urutomo i tētahi whare ka pūhia ia kia mate. Kātahi ka whakatika ana hoa ki te kohi i te tūpāpaku me te pupuhi i ngā kaiwawao o te kāinga. Nō konei ka pūhia hoki a Nixon. He pikitia whakaatu tēnei i tōna hinganga. Ko Nixon te tuarua mai i te taha mauī, ā, ko Rūtene Thomas McDonnell tērā e oma ana. Ko tētahi kei runga i te hōiho ko Cameron tonu. E rima ngā hōia, 12 ngā toa Māori ka mate i taua pakanga.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: A-109-050

by John Wilson

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Danny Keenan, New Zealand Wars – Waikato War: major battles, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/36920/te-pakanga-i-rangiaowhia (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Danny Keenan, i tāngia i te 11 June 2012, updated 29 November 2022.

Comments

SAM
21 April 2024
Question- is this picture from the catholic priest journal that was present at the time of the Rangiaowhia attack that is stated in the above article?
Mike
14 April 2015
The article does not mention that Te Ua Haumene's wife (and child? ) were allegedly killed in this raid. This is one (the main reason ?)put forward that drove him to develop the Hauhau cult in Taranaki in 1865. However many sorces say he began his cult in 1862 preceding the the Waikato war by at least a year. Haumene himself was one of the defenders in the pa that was by-passed. He was acting as a religious adviser to the Maori. Haumene's own whanau say it drove him mad. Settler sources say he was mad. Haumene spread the false story that Anglican missionaries were implicated in a massacre at the village. Part of the Hauhau myth was that the attack on the village was a massacre of innocent women and children. Notes taken by officers at the scene make it clear that the whare (not a church as in some accounts) was set on fire by the defender's own musket fire. His killing of Angliacn Missionary Volkner, the cannibalism, blood sucking and beheading and dumping of the body in a shit hole that followed, was his utu or revenge for imaginary wrongs. Haumene had close links with the 2nd Maori king. Haumene gave him the name Tawhaio. Tawhaio adopted the Hauhau cult(also called Pai Marire).