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Haurongo: Te Wera Hauraki

Haurongo tūhonohono

Waikato (left), Hongi Hika (centre) and Thomas Kendall (right)

Hongi Hika

1772–1828

Ngāpuhi leader, trader, military campaigner

Rēnata Tama-ki-Hikurangi Kawepō

Kawepō, Rēnata Tama-ki-Hikurangi

?–1888

Ngāi Te Ūpokoiri and Ngāti Kahungunu leader, missionary

Kendall, Thomas

1778 (uncertain)–1832

Missionary, orthographer, linguist

Marsden, Samuel

1765–1838

Chaplain, magistrate, agriculturalist, missionary

Tarakawa, Takaanui Hōhaia

1852–1919

Tapuika, Ngāti Rangiwewehi and Ngāi Te Rangi; tohunga, historian, genealogist, writer

Group portrait of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Whātua chiefs

Te Heuheu Tūkino II, Mananui

?–1846

Ngāti Tūwharetoa leader

Te Whatanui

?–1846

Ngāti Raukawa leader

Tiakitai

?–1847

Ngāti Kahungunu leader, trader

Williams, William

1800–1878

Missionary, linguist

Biographies that mention Te Wera Hauraki

Hikairo, Wiremu

?–1851

Ngāti Rangiwewehi leader, peacemaker

Hinematioro

?–1823

Ngāti Porou leader

Jury, Te Aitu-o-te-rangi

1820 (year uncertain)–1854

Ngāti Kahungunu founding mother, landowner, farmer

Nuku-pewapewa

Ngāti Kahungunu leader

Pōmare I

?–1826

Ngāpuhi warrior, trader

Taumata-ā-Kura, Piripi

Ngāti Porou evangelist

One of the poupou (posts) from the Tamatekapua meeting house on Mokoia Island

Te Ao-kapurangi

Ngāti Rangiwewehi woman of mana, peacemaker

Te Kani-a-Takirau

?–1856

Ngāti Porou leader, Te Aitanga a Hauiti leader

Te Moananui, Kurupō

?–1861

Ngāti Kahungunu leader

Te Pareihe

?–1844

Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti leader

Te Rangi-i-pāia II

Ngāti Porou woman of mana

Te Rohu

Ngāti Tūwharetoa woman of mana

Tāngia te kōrero katoa

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Angela Ballara. 'Te Wera Hauraki', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1990. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/128926/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).