Te Rautakitahi o Tūhoe ki Ōrākau Nā Te Pou Temara
A remarkable account in te reo Māori of Tūhoe involvement in the battle of Ōrākau.
Te Rautakitahi o Tūhoe ki Ōrākau is an account of Tūhoe involvement in the battle of Ōrākau in the New Zealand wars by Sir William Te Rangiua ‘Pou’ Temara. Written in te reo Māori and based on oral sources, Tā Pou asks the big questions about the Tūhoe men and women who went to fight with Ngāti Maniapoto at Ōrākau. Who were they? Why did they go and what did they do there? What was the nature of their alliance with Ngāti Maniapoto?
Tā Pou gives this account as a man from Ruatāhuna, where most of the Tūhoe who went to Ōrākau came from, through the stories told to him by his grandfather, great-grandmother and other kuia and koroua when he was young. He tells the story of Rewi Maniapoto visiting Tūhoe at Ruatāhuna in 1862 and 1864 to ask if Tūhoe would become involved in the war to help Ngāti Maniapoto and the King movement. He recounts the warriors, women and children who went, and then tells what happened to their authority and reputation in Tūhoe after the party returned, defeated, from Ōrākau. The book includes significant Tūhoe whakapapa for those who went to Ōrākau. Tā Pou compares his account of events to those of Pākehā writers like Elsdon Best, Judith Binney and Vincent O’Malley.
This is a major new account of a key episode in the New Zealand wars written by one of our leading Māori thinkers and writers.
A remarkable account in te reo Māori of Tūhoe involvement in the battle of Ōrākau.
Te Rautakitahi o Tūhoe ki Ōrākau is an account of Tūhoe involvement in the battle of Ōrākau in the New Zealand wars by Sir William Te Rangiua ‘Pou’ Temara. Written in te reo Māori and based on oral sources, Tā Pou asks the big questions about the Tūhoe men and women who went to fight with Ngāti Maniapoto at Ōrākau. Who were they? Why did they go and what did they do there? What was the nature of their alliance with Ngāti Maniapoto?
Tā Pou gives this account as a man from Ruatāhuna, where most of the Tūhoe who went to Ōrākau came from, through the stories told to him by his grandfather, great-grandmother and other kuia and koroua when he was young. He tells the story of Rewi Maniapoto visiting Tūhoe at Ruatāhuna in 1862 and 1864 to ask if Tūhoe would become involved in the war to help Ngāti Maniapoto and the King movement. He recounts the warriors, women and children who went, and then tells what happened to their authority and reputation in Tūhoe after the party returned, defeated, from Ōrākau. The book includes significant Tūhoe whakapapa for those who went to Ōrākau. Tā Pou compares his account of events to those of Pākehā writers like Elsdon Best, Judith Binney and Vincent O’Malley.
This is a major new account of a key episode in the New Zealand wars written by one of our leading Māori thinkers and writers.
A remarkable account in te reo Māori of Tūhoe involvement in the battle of Ōrākau.
Te Rautakitahi o Tūhoe ki Ōrākau is an account of Tūhoe involvement in the battle of Ōrākau in the New Zealand wars by Sir William Te Rangiua ‘Pou’ Temara. Written in te reo Māori and based on oral sources, Tā Pou asks the big questions about the Tūhoe men and women who went to fight with Ngāti Maniapoto at Ōrākau. Who were they? Why did they go and what did they do there? What was the nature of their alliance with Ngāti Maniapoto?
Tā Pou gives this account as a man from Ruatāhuna, where most of the Tūhoe who went to Ōrākau came from, through the stories told to him by his grandfather, great-grandmother and other kuia and koroua when he was young. He tells the story of Rewi Maniapoto visiting Tūhoe at Ruatāhuna in 1862 and 1864 to ask if Tūhoe would become involved in the war to help Ngāti Maniapoto and the King movement. He recounts the warriors, women and children who went, and then tells what happened to their authority and reputation in Tūhoe after the party returned, defeated, from Ōrākau. The book includes significant Tūhoe whakapapa for those who went to Ōrākau. Tā Pou compares his account of events to those of Pākehā writers like Elsdon Best, Judith Binney and Vincent O’Malley.
This is a major new account of a key episode in the New Zealand wars written by one of our leading Māori thinkers and writers.