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Haurongo: Tāwhiao, Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

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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

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

R. T. Mahuta. 'Tāwhiao, Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1993, whakahou July 2011. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/128721/sources (accessed 11 June 2026).