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  Te Mamaku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However at the outbreak of the Hutt Valley Campaign in 1846 he was firmly on the side of Te Rangihaeata in resisting the encroachment of European settlers onto Maori land.
Te Mamaku and warriors of his hapu were with Te Rangihaeata in the attack on Boulcott's Farm in May 1846.
He opposed Te Kooti but was firm in his belief that the King Country was sacrosanct Maori territory even to the extent of executing one man who persisted in entering the area.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Te_Mamaku   (445 words)

  
 Te Rangihaeata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Te Rangihaeata was a Maori chief who participated in and perhaps instigated the Wairau Massacre and the Hutt Valley Campaign.
Te Rangihaeata had his men firmly but non violently remove them, being scrupulously careful to return to them all their surveying equipment and personal possessions.
Te Rangihaeata fought the British to a stalemate until the British were able to mobilise the Te Atawa and other Maori Tribes to oppose him.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Te_Rangihaeata   (897 words)

  
 Hutt Valley Campaign - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Te Rangihaeata then began to systematically destroy the settlers' farms and property in the Hutt Valley.
This gave Te Rangihaeata enough time to build his own fortress or Pa at Pauatahanui (at the eastern end of the harbour) from where he could block any further British advances from that direction.
Te Rangihaeata built himself a strong Pa near the Manawatu River from which he was able to block European penetration onto that area until he died in 1856.
www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Hutt_Valley_Campaign   (741 words)

  
 DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
Te Rangihaeata agreed that Ngati Apa should remain unmolested on their land and left Te Pikinga for a period at Rangitikei as 'he pou rohe', the embodiment of his authority, or mainstay, within the region.
Te Kekerengu, son of Tamairangi, was believed to have abused Te Rangihaeata's hospitality by seducing one of his wives; he and his family took refuge in the South Island with Rerewaka of Ngati Tu-te-ahunga, a section of Ngai Tahu.
Rerewaka cursed Te Kekerengu's pursuers, and it was partly this curse that led Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata later to devastate the Kaikoura Coast.
www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=1T63&QuickSearch=true   (2876 words)

  
 Rangiatea ll History ll Rangiatea in Aotearoa
Te Rauparaha and his famous ōhaaki was recalled, as were the deeds of Octavius Hadfield, the Ōtaki missionary who was central to the building of Rangiātea.
Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata were protesting the surveying of lands at Wairau, and a group of untrained settlers, acting as the constabulary, were sent to arrest them.
Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata were accused of murder for their actions at Wairau, and the Ngāti Toa tribe was demonised by a paranoid European population.
rangiatea.natlib.govt.nz /RinAotearoaE.htm   (4768 words)

  
 TE RANGIHAEATA
Te Rauparaha was the strategist and negotiator while Te Rangihatea tended to be the blunt instrument, they were a god team.
Te Rangihaeata was not anti Pakeha, he encouraged the whalers and the traders and was prepared to tolerate the missionaries.
Te Rangihaeata had his men firmly but non violently remove them, being scrupulously careful to return to them all their surverying equipment and personal possessions.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/TE+RANGIHAEATA   (915 words)

  
 Rangiatea ll History ll Te Rauparaha
Te Rauparaha is depicted here as a solemn man in his late 50s or 60s, tattooed and wearing the feather down of the toroa, or albatross, in his left ear, and a white feather on his head.
The Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha was born at Tahāroa, Kawhia, towards the end of the 18th century, and came to prominence as a young man, owing to his skill as a leader and warrior.
Te Rauparaha was known to have carried Kimihia during the early battles of Ngāti Toa, when the tribe first arrived on the Kapiti Coast in the early 1820s.
rangiatea.natlib.govt.nz /TeRauparahaE.htm   (957 words)

  
 War Parties in the Hutt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Te Rangihaeta’s warriors begin to harass settlers in the Hutt Valley.
Te Rauparaha is captured at Plimmerton and taken to Auckland in H.M.S. Calliope.
Lt Page and his two soldier servants occupy the house, while half the men are in the barn, and the remainder are housed in the huts and tents.
www.balagan.org.uk /war/nz/1846.htm   (425 words)

  
 Te Rauparaha - New Zealand in History
Te Rauparaha's father was Werawera, a chief of the Ngati Toarangatira (or Ngati-Toa) tribe.
Te Rauparaha spoke to his people of the advantages of the land to the south : the abundance of food supplies, the presence of greenstone, the "pakeha" (white man) trading ships, whereby muskets could be obtained.
Although Te Rauparaha was one of the neutral chiefs in the wars with the Europeans, the excuse for his arrest was his secret support of Te Rangihaeta.
history-nz.org /rauparaha.html   (3313 words)

  
 TE RAUPARAHA - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
Te Rauparaha was recognised as the senior chief in the district and the arrangement received the assent of all.
Te Heuheu (Mananui) and Te Rauparaha both intervened and, in 1834, the dispute culminated in the battle of Haowhenua.
It was generally believed that Te Rauparaha had instigated this incident, and it was also admitted that he and Te Rangihaeata had quarrelled over the division of the payment received for the sale of land to the New Zealand Company.
www.teara.govt.nz /1966/R/TeRauparaha/en?print=true   (2174 words)

  
 DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
Te Umuroa worked for a time as a labourer, but when Te Rangihaeata of Ngati Toa began armed resistance to the settlers in the Wellington area in 1846, he joined other Wanganui Maori who travelled to Te Rangihaeata's pa at Taupo, Porirua.
Their captors were a party of Te Ati Awa led by Aperahama Ngatohu and Nepetarima Ngauru, part of a force of over 100 Te Ati Awa assembled by Wiremu Kingi Te Rangitake to assist the government in searching for supporters of Te Rangihaeata.
Te Umuroa and his companions had only an interpreter to plead their cause; none spoke sufficient English to conduct a defence and they were not given legal counsel.
www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=1T80&QuickSearch=true   (855 words)

  
 Friends of Mana Island - History
In October, Waitohi, the eldest sister of Te Rauparaha and mother of Te Rangihaeata died.
Whaler Jock Niccol married Kahe Te Rauoterangi, a daughter of the Ngati-Toa Chief, Te Mataha.
Te Rangihaeata dies at Otaki after suffering from the measles, although some say he died a somewhat lonely death caused by senile decay.
www.manaisland.org.nz /history.htm   (3121 words)

  
 TE RAUPARAHA
While Te Rauparaha was attacking the tribes of Horowhenua, Te Pehi Kupe, the senior chief of Ngati Toa, surprised Muaupoko on Kapiti and captured the island.
Te Rauparaha was unable to prevent Ngai Tahu attacks on whaling stations under his patronage and when they sent a war party to the Cook Strait area in the late 1830s he did not confront it.
Te Rauparaha died on 27 November 1849 and was buried near the church, Rangiatea, in Otaki.
www.ngatitoa.iwi.nz /te_rauparaha.htm   (3408 words)

  
 TE RANGIHAEATA - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
Te Rangihaeata was born about 1780 at Kawhia, the son of Te Rakaherea and Waitohi, a sister of Te Rauparaha.
Te Rongopamamao, a wife of Rangihaeata, was shot during the affray and the irate chief later ordered the execution of all European prisoners, including Arthur Wakefield himself.
While Te Rauparaha feigned allegiance to the Governor, Rangihaeata declared open warfare and entrenched himself in a fortified pa at the head of the Pauatahanui arm of the Porirua Harbour.
www.teara.govt.nz /1966/R/TeRangihaeata/TeRangihaeata/en   (614 words)

  
 Te Mamaku - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Te Mamaku   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Te Mamaku - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Te Mamaku.
Raids on the outlying farms intensified and then, in May, Te Mamku lead the war party that began a serious siege of the town.
However in his later years he appears to have accpeted many of the changes that Europeanization brought to his area.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Te-Mamaku.html   (495 words)

  
 C-025-022.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The second is in private hands, neg 18132 1/2, with the same title - Rangihaeata is shown with only 3 feathers in his hair, he wears only one cloak, lacking the taniko border and has no strap across his shoulder; the first is also in private hands.
HISTORY:Te Rangihaeata was the only surviving son of Waitohi of Ngati Toa, and elder sister of Te Rauparaha, and Te Rangikapiki of Ngati Raukawa.
Te Rangihaeata was a rangatira (chief) of the Ariki class, the highest ranking class of Maori chief, and a tohunga.
timeframes1.natlib.govt.nz /0_C-025-022.info   (265 words)

  
 Maori Values
The name Te Moana O Raukawa was the original name of the Cook Strait which separates the two islands of Aotearoa, separating Te Waipounamu from Te Ika-a-Maui.
Te Rauparaha dominated the south western part of the North Island and the northern region of the South Island for a number of years up until about 1840.
Te Rauparaha was never baptised but one of his sons Tamihana also known as Katu (1819-1876) a tall and handsome man, was greatly impressed by European culture.
icm.landcareresearch.co.nz /science_themes/human-dimensions/maori_values.htm   (1337 words)

  
 He Atinga - Issue 5, July 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Tumu te Heuheu, attending in his capacity as chairman of the NWR committee, had the choice of either accompanying the Minister as manuhiri, or sitting with the tangata whenua.
Here there was another clash and the fiery Te Rangihaeata came face to face with the leader of the Katihiku garrison, the great Muaupoko chief Tanguru who was the father of Major Kemp.
According to Horomona Toremi, Katihiku was given by Te Rauparaha to Ngati Huia, a fighting tribe that sometimes took the field with Te Rangihaeata at their head.
www.doc.govt.nz /publications/002~national-publications/He-Atinga/096~He-Atinga-Issue-5-July-1998/index.asp   (4666 words)

  
 NZ FOLK SONG * All Black Haka
Te Rauparaha and a group of his men had come up the Whanganui river and were crossing the volcanic plateau heading for Kawhia.
Te Rauparaha was the son of Werawera, of Ngati Toa, and his second wife, Parekowhatu (Parekohatu), of Ngati Raukawa.
They besieged Te Rauparaha, and by 1822 he was forced to take his people away from Kawhia on a migration which was to eventually bring them to Kapiti Island.
folksong.org.nz /ka_mate   (2291 words)

  
 Sermon - 18 May 2005
Te Rauparaha was the Ngati Toa chief who terrorised people down the west coast of the North Island from Kawhia south, and the northern parts of the South Island, early in the 19th Century.
In 1836 Te Rauparaha himself wrote to Henry Williams asking for a missionary to be sent down, but, at that time, no one was available.
Te Rauparaha and Tamihana went that one stage further, and shared the Gospel truth with the people with whom they had been fighting.
www.stmarys-karori.org.nz /sermons/textpage_smn05_05_18.shtml   (996 words)

  
 Our first great wretch by Steve Braunias | New Zealand Listener
Their advocacy is sometimes of a high nuttiness – "It is hardly FitzRoy's fault that he was born too late to discover Australia", "If it had not been for Robert FitzRoy, the name Charles Darwin would be remembered, if at all, as that of a country parson with an interest in natural history.
And then slaughter commenced, as Te Rangihaeata persuaded Te Rauparaha to execute the prisoners, including Thompson, "who, typically, tore his hair out in his death agonies", as Philip Temple writes in A Sort of Conscience.
Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata, meanwhile, moved to Wellington, where they would fight for land in the Hutt Valley.
www.listener.co.nz /printable,1398.sm   (2721 words)

  
 Rangiatea ll History ll Octavius Hadfield
Mātene Te Whiwhi was the son of the famous Ngāti Toa chieftainess Te Rangi Topeora.
Mātene Te Whiwhi became a Christian and was baptised by Hadfield in 1841.
In the previous year, Te Āti Awa had left Waikanae and returned to their ancestral lands in Taranaki, in order to protect their claim on the land at Waitara, which Governor Grey was attempting to acquire for Pākēhā settlement.
rangiatea.natlib.govt.nz /OctaviusE.htm   (1325 words)

  
 Articles - Wairau Affray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Te Rangihaeta then spent several days around Nelson telling everyone who would listen that the only way they could get the land was by conquest, in other words they had to kill him but he intended to kill them first.
He refused to shake hands with Te Rauparaha and said that he had come to arrest him not over the land issue but for arson: he had burnt the surveyors' huts when he removed them from the land.
Te Rauparaha pointed out that the huts had been made from rushes grown on his own land and thus he had burnt his own property.
www.anthraxa.com /articles/Wairau_Massacre   (1396 words)

  
 Tamaiti Whangai -
Tribal leaders may ask for or demand children from their parents to groom them as successors or to educate them as experts in various traditional skills or types of knowledge, or give them to other families to strengthen family alliances, although this last practice is now almost extinct.
The first was the sign of te kauae runga, the upper jaw which holds the prestige and the mana of everything, the tapu and the sacred power; and the second was the sign of te kauae raro, the lower jaw for the modern college, the knowledge coming from below.
When Hiria Te Rangihaeata came and asked for me my mother agreed, she had to, and the old lady took me to her whare nikau [a traditional house] in the bush.
famous.adoption.com /famous/tamaiti-whangai.html   (894 words)

  
 C-054-020.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
SCOPE:Shows Rangihaeata seated in the centre of a group of 4 women, while one bearded man (possibly Te Rakaherea, a cousin and close companion) stands behind the group.
Despite this, the central figure is almost certainly Te Rangihaeata, shown with his characteristic albatross-feather ear adornments.
It would appear that Oliver misinterpreted his own title which should have read Rangihaeata & Rangihaeata's wife, and also took his portrait of Rangihaeata to be that of a woman.
timeframes1.natlib.govt.nz /0_C-054-020.info   (420 words)

  
 Greater Wellington - History
Maori under the protection of Te Rangihaeata had been evicted from their lands in the Hutt Valley and Crown attempts at arbitration were unsuccessful as Ngati Toa continued to resist growing pressure to sell their land.
Leaving from the Hutt Valley, a mixed group of around 500 British troops, police, militia and Te Atiawa allies joined forces to converge on Te Rangihaeata’s pa at Pauatahanui.
Te Rangihaeata had built a temporary pa on an almost unassailable razorback ridge near the summit of Battle Hill.
www.gw.govt.nz /section569.cfm   (313 words)

  
 History of Porirua
Pressure from Waikato iwi led to some of the Ngati Toa iwi leaving Kawhia, under the chiefs Te Peehi Kupe, Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata, and coming to the Kapiti and Porirua areas.
With the seizure of Te Rauparaha and the retreat of Te Rangihaeata to the Horowhenua the way was open for European settlement.
Customers were local Maori based close by at the villages of Te Urukahika and Takapuwahia, the farming families of the area, travellers going north and the Porirua Lunatic Asylum established in 1887.
www.pcc.govt.nz /sweb_content.asp?id=100000651&sec=   (966 words)

  
 Historical 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Te Rauparaha was badly worsted at Paekakariki about 1823 by local Wellington tribes after crossing to the mainland from his Kapiti Island re-treat and was subsequently forced to fee to the north.
Not far away from Paekakariki, however, in the Horokiwi Valley which leads up to the Paekakariki hill road there was fighting against the formidable Te Rangihaeata.
The Paekakariki hill road was constructed in 1848 by soldiers of the 58th regiment.
homepages.paradise.net.nz /knwr/historical1.htm   (535 words)

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