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Haurongo: Te Waharoa, Wiremu Tāmihana Tarapīpipi

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Pae tukutuku

The governor (1977)

 

Watch a dramatisation of the events leading up to the Waikato War of 1863–4, featuring Don Selwyn as Wiremu Tāmihana Tarapīpipi Te Waharoa. The governor was a landmark television series about the life of Sir George Grey, and was both ambitious and highly controversial at the time of its release.

Rārangi pukapuka

Brown, A. N. Journal, letters and papers, 1835–1864. MS. The Elms, Tauranga

Gorst, J. E. The Maori King. Ed. with an introduction by K. Sinclair. Hamilton, 1959

Lineham, P. 'Te Waharoa's war and missionary visions of peace.' Saints and stirrers: Christianity, conflict and peacemaking in New Zealand, 1814–1945. Ed. Geoffrey Troughton, Wellington, 2017: 47–62

Rickard, L. S. Tamihana the kingmaker. Wellington, 1963

Stokes, E. Wiremu Tamihana. Wellington, 2002

Taylor, R. The past and present of New Zealand. London, 1868

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Evelyn Stokes. 'Te Waharoa, Wiremu Tāmihana Tarapīpipi', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1990, whakahou February 2006. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/128920/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).