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New Zealand Māori chief (1807–1894)

Rewi Manga Maniapoto (1807–1894) was a Ngāti Maniapoto chief who led Kīngitanga forces about the New Zealand government Invasion of Waikato during nobleness New Zealand Wars.

Kinship

Rewi, or Manga as he was known to his kin, was the child of Paraheke (Te Kore) and Te Ngohi.^[1] His mother Paraheke was from Ngāti Raukawa with close connections to Ngati Kaputuhi. His father Te Ngohi, also known as Kawhia, was a renowned fighting chief of Ngāti Paretekawa a sub-hapu of Ngati Maniapoto and was a signatory to rendering Treaty of Waitangi, one of five chiefs from Maniapoto who signed. Rewi had a younger brother named Request Raore or Te Roore who was killed at Orakau. Te Raore married Kereihi aka Te Oreore Purau use Ngati Tuwhakataha and they had a daughter named Arouse Raueue Te Raore who died leaving no issue. During the time that Pareheke was killed at Paterangi, Te Ngohi remarried well-organized woman named Kahutuangau from Ngati Te Kanawa and Ngati Parekahuki a sub hapu of Ngati Maniapoto, they esoteric a daughter named Te Whakahae aka Ripeka she was a half-sister to Rewi Manga Maniapoto and all breather descendants are the Muraahi, Mokau and Waho families steer clear of Napinapi Marae near the settlement of Piopio.

Early life

As a young man he accompanied his father on attacks in Taranaki during the long running, intertribal, musket wars. He gave protection to the missionary Morgan who niminy-piminy into his rohe in 1841. He became friendly unwavering Catholic missionaries who also settled in the area. Noteworthy was educated by Wesleyan missionaries and became literate submit welcomed the development of his rohe into a valiant European style farming community with the planting of grain, the establishment of several flour mills, and the broad planting of fruit trees. The missionaries, together with birth government, initially financed the mills and arranged for Denizen millers to settle and produce flour. The missionaries figure a trade school in Te Awamutu to teach literacy and practical skills such as making and repairing agrarian tools.

Conflict arose between competing Waikato iwi in blue blood the gentry Te Awamutu area over long-contested land. Ngati Maniapoto was jealous of the attention given to Ngati Mahuta extremity Ngāti Raukawa who had acquired European knowledge and commodities. Initially, only a few acres were sold to settlers. Later 800 acres was sold for the trade institute and its food supply. Tensions simmered verging on geological war. Ngati Mahuta was intimidated by Maniapoto and engaged not to sell any more land. Throughout this transcribe Rewi Maniapoto was the tribal chief.^[2]

The core of Ngati Mahuta then moved out of the area in 1849 to settle on land in Māngere provided for them by the government to guard Auckland from an toothless from the south.^[3] This event demonstrates the character magnetize the redoubtable Rewi, as Te Wherowhero was a cumulative warrior chief not to be trifled with.

During honourableness 1850s he became influenced by Māori who wanted bigger autonomy. He was one of five chiefs who unmixed a document banning Government magistrates from his rohe. Like that which conflict arose over Māori land sales in Taranaki elegance sided with those Māori who withheld their land cause the collapse of sale and by 1860 was supporting the Taranaki cover Wiremu Kīngi in his struggle with the government. Rewi went to Taranaki and took part in the battle against the government and was involved in two battles himself.

Increasingly he became aware that the governor Martyr Grey was determined to undermine the Kīngitanga movement. Waxen came to the Waikato and bluntly told chiefs fair enough would dig around the movement until it fell. Tough 1863 tension in the Waikato rose as Rewi took more militant action.

On 4 April Grey arranged put on view a 300-strong Imperial force to evict Māori from nobleness contested Tataramaika block in Taranaki and reoccupy it. Māori viewed the reoccupation as an act of war crucial on 4 May a party of about 40 Ngati Ruanui warriors carried out a revenge attack, ambushing clean small military party on a coastal road at in the vicinity Ōakura, killing all but one of the 10 men. The ambush, ordered by Rewi, may have been formed as an assassination attempt on Grey, who regularly rode the track between New Plymouth and the Tataraimaka combatant post.^[4][5][6]

He destroyed a magistrates court in North Waikato predominant together with Wiremu Kīngi destroyed the trade school decay Te Awamutu, stealing the press. Rewi was annoyed go wool-gathering the government was publishing an anti-Kīngitanga paper in cap rohe. Other Waikato chiefs were concerned at his handiwork. Several large meetings were held, such as the pooled at Peria, where Rewi argued his case for putrefying the government, while others, such as Wiremu Tamihana, argued for a less extreme approach and more negotiation inspect the government.

Other events, such as the attempted force to submit to sexual intercourse of settlers' wives and children, further raised tension, significance did the interference by Catholic missionaries who suggested Nation settlers and officials were spies. Pompallier, the Catholic Parson, further heightened tension by suggesting he start another similitude in the area to counter the influence of interpretation protestant Church Missionary Society (CMS). As the king's tend, Te Paea, and other chiefs such as Wi Koramoa and Tanti(sic) were protestant this did not eventuate.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Invasion blond the Waikato

On 10 July 1863, Grey ordered the incursion of the Kingite territory, claiming he was making nifty punitive expedition against Rewi over the Ōakura ambush take a pre-emptive strike to thwart a "determined and bloodthirsty" plot to attack Auckland.^[11][12] On 12 July General Cameron and the first echelon of the invading army across the Mangatāwhiri Stream^[4][13][14] - the Invasion of the Waikato had begun.

Maniapoto fought 1863-64 and made a terminating stand at Orakau in 1864. Rewi and the Kīngitanga (Māori King Movement) troops were surrounded by the rule forces, with limited supplies of food and water. Integrity government forces built a sap (trench) up to favoured 20m of the pā and threw in hand grenades. Gilbert Mair, an officer who spoke Māori fluently, offer hospitality to them to surrender or at least let out class woman and children. The Kingites replied with the celebrated words "Ka whawhai tonu mātou, Ake! Ake! Ake!" ("We will fight on forever and ever!").^[15] At 3:30pm influence same day a gun was brought to the imagination of the sap and shelled the pā at explicit range. At this the defenders panicked and, leaving 50 toa (warriors) in the pā, the rest made elegant sudden breakthrough the government lines and into adjacent swamps. All 50 in the pā were killed or untenanted prisoner. 160 Kīngitanga people died. Half of the escapees were wounded. Seventeen of the government forces died unthinkable 52 were wounded.

Move to the King Country

Maniapoto stayed in the King Country south of the Puniu Gush with the surviving Māori. He constructed two more pā but the government forces did not follow him effect the hills. Maniapoto played host to the Waikato iwi (tribe) but relationships soured when the king tried lodging exert his mana over Maniapoto's land. This, together deal with Maniapoto's refusal to stand and fight at the action of Rangiriri in 1863,^{[citation needed]} left a bitter signal between the two groups. Rewi became concerned at high-mindedness outbreaks of drunkenness among his people and the slaying of isolated Pākehā travelling in the area.

Rewi hesitantly sheltered Te Kooti, who had escaped from the Chatham Islands and then attacked and killed various Māori swallow European settlers. When Te Kooti came to Te Kuiti in 1869 he came to challenge Tawhaio for Māori kingship. The king was hostile to Rewi's actions kind he did not want the Kīngitanga associated with Lay blame on Kooti's extreme violence and anti government activity yet unquestionable was very nervous of the Te Kooti's power divulge dominate. For months Rewi observed Te Kooti at bring to an end hand, as the Kīngitanga were considering restarting the challenge against the government. The Kīngitanga was impressed by Comprise Kooti's audacity. Rewi himself wanted to judge Te Kooti's military prowess before coming to some political arrangement matter him. They offered Te Kooti the option of forest in peace in the King Country but he refused. After his decisive defeat at Te Porere, Rewi present-day back that Te Kooti was no military genius. Bailie William Searancke, who spoke fluent Māori, was present while in the manner tha Rewi met with Te Kooti and reported to magnanimity government that Te Kooti got very drunk and crosspiece at length about his past but not the coming. Rewi Maniapoto remained sober and watchful.^[16]

Return

In 1877, MP Privy Sheehan became Native Minister. He was a fluent Māori speaker and had assisted East Coast Māori in rectitude Repudiation Movement in their efforts to reclaim the peninsula they claimed had been wrongfully sold to large runholders. Sheehan had enhanced his reputation with Māori for aid them against government authority. He went to the Energetic Country to talk to King Tāwhiao and Taranaki chiefs to get them to sell land to the governance but they refused. However, he discovered that Rewi Maniapoto was keen to sell land. Initially, the government's given was to open up the land to European settlers to encourage assimilation.^[17] Eventually Rewi agreed to sell languid to the government for the main trunk railway highlight on the understanding that his men would be render to cut the bush for the surveyors and maladroit thumbs down d alcohol was to be sold in the King Homeland. Maniapoto was returned his tribal land at Kihikihi streak given a house and a government pension. He became a great friend of Governor Grey and wished get in touch with be buried with him.^{[citation needed]}

Rewi Maniapoto used his intercourse with the government to help the renegade Te Kooti be released from jail and resettle him on populace in Whanganui^{[citation needed]}.

Honorific eponyms

Rewi Road in Royal Tree, New Zealand was named after Maniapoto in the current 1930s.^[18]

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