Tainui
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Tainui is a tribal waka confederation of New Zealand Māori iwi. The Tainui confederation comprises four principal related Māori iwi of the central North Island of New Zealand: Hauraki, Ngāti Maniapoto
Tainui forces repulse a British attack at the Battle of Rangiriri, 1863.
Ngāti Maniapoto survivors of the war, at the jubilee gathering on the battlefield of Ōrākau, 1 April 1914.
Pōtatau Te Wherowhero
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Pōtatau Te Wherowhero was a Māori rangatira who reigned as the inaugural Māori King from 1858 until his death. A powerful nobleman and a leader of the Waikato iwi of the Tainui confederation, he was t
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…in 1844. A year later, when the less than 4,000 settlers of Auckland were under threat from an attack by Ngāpuhi from the south, Tainui rangatira Te Wherowhero responded to a request to assist with the planned attack, "You must fight me if you come on to Auckland; for these Europeans are under my protection…
Painting by George French Angas
The flag hoisted at Ngāruawāhia on the proclamation of Pōtatau Te Wherowhero as Māori King. Drawn 1863.