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Kōrero: New Zealand Wars

Te mauhere i a Rua Kēnana

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Arrest of Rua Kēnana

Kei te whakahouhia e mātou te whārangi reo Māori nei

Ko Rua Kēnana tēnei e mau mekameka ana whai muri i tana mauhere i te Āperira o te tau 1916. Ko Te Rua te poropiti o Ngāi Tūhoe nāna i waihanga te whakapono hou ki Maungapōhatu, kei roto i Te Urewera. I mauheretia a ia i runga i tana marae mō te mahi pūrahorua ki te kāwanatanga. I te wā i mauheretia ia ka pakū te pū, ā, kei te noho taupatupatu tonu nā wai te pakū tuatahi. Tokorua ngā Tūhoe i patua, he tama nā Te Rua tētahi, ko Toko te ingoa. Ka whakawākia, ā, ka whakawhiua a Te Rua ki te mahi whakaware mō te rua tau. Kei konei e whakaahua ana ko Māka Kānuehi, ko Pukepuke Kanara, ko Rua Kēnana, ko Whatu Rua, ko Awa Horomona, ko Tioke Hakaipare. Kei muri ko ngā pirihimana ko Bill Nel, ko Andy McHugh me Fahey.  

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, C. C. Webb Collection

Reference: 1/2-028072-F

by Arthur Ninnis Breckon

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 – New Zealand Wars overview, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/36890/te-mauhere-i-a-rua-kenana (accessed 25 June 2026).

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