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Story: Ngā rōpū tautohetohe – Māori protest movements

Government troops at Parihaka

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Government troops at Parihaka

On 5 November 1881 around 1,500 government troops and volunteers invaded Parihaka in Taranaki, evicting over 1,000 people, destroying many whare and arresting leaders Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi, who had been running a campaign of peaceful civil disobedience in response to land confiscation by the government.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Parihaka Album

Reference: PA1-q-183-19

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Basil Keane, Ngā rōpū tautohetohe – Māori protest movements – Historic Māori protest, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/35931/government-troops-at-parihaka (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Basil Keane, published 12 June 2012, updated 11 January 2023.