Kūpapa
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Kūpapa were Māori who fought on the British side in the New Zealand Wars of the 19th century.
Ngāti Porou chief and kūpapa leader Major Ropata Wahawaha.
Ngāpuhi
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Ngāpuhi is a Māori iwi associated with the Northland regions of New Zealand centred in the Hokianga, the Bay of Islands, and Whangārei.
Kūpapa
…their ranks. At one end of the scale were kūpapa groups who had whole-hearted support for the British. These included the largest tribe in New Zealand Ngāpuhi, (estimated by demographer Ian Pool to have 40% of all Māori people in 1840) who held a meeting under their chief Tāmati Wāka Nene, in the Hokianga in…
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