Tuhoe hapu1/9/2023 ![]() Tane Singh Lagah (Rua) - Tamakaimoana, Ngai Tama, Ngati Rongo.I am trying to trace the daughters of Eru Tomaikoha, can anyone provide names and whakapapa/history?Ī son, a brother,a father, a koroua, not perfect who fought for the right to live on his own land and live his life in his own way. One of his daughters was Te Unupo married Tawera Moko, ka puta ko Moko Tuiringa,Te Orohi, te whaaea o taku whaaea a Te Waimatao (Tiramate)Titoki,te tahi ano ko Pihitahi Te Awhiahua ka moa ia Tupaea Rapaera ka puta ko nga Kohunui both Hakeke and Tiopira tamaikoha are my koroua. Ko Rongowhakaata Tiopira ahau no te waimana kaaku. great photo of the koroua erueti tamaikoha. Rongowhakaata Miki Tiopira - Te whakatane.He was a Great man and fought for his people. The hapu shifted! He died on September the 5th 1915. Seeing them hesitate, he promptly set fire to their homes and burnt them down. Later in his life he wished his people to move from their Waimana Valley to a new site. He made peace with Major Kemp and the Government in 1870. In 1869 Tamaikoha was still on the warpath against the Government forces. He fought relentlessly against the Government and its Maori allies at Maketu and Kaokaoroa in 1864, and later in the Whakatane and Opotiki Districts and on the Northern borders of the Urewera County. In the Hauhau wars in the Bay of Plenty he was a daring leader of the rebels, skilled in guerrilla warfare and the Art of Ambush. He stood over six foot Tall, and he refused to wear the pakeha (European) clothes and always preferred the Rapaki. He was born in 1835 in Ruatahuna, and was also the Chief of a small sub tribe of the Urewera, called Ngai Tama, he is also connected to Ngati Awa of the Whakatane Valley. Apparently these paintings were donated to this marae by a previous owner of the Papakura Tavern. This photo led me to Papakura Marae where this painting is. It all started from an old portrait photo of my grandmother Moewaka Te Uaua with Waka Hakeke Tamaikoha standing behind her. It hangs proudly alongside other paintings that could belong this famous artist. I would like to share my journey that led me to a painting of our tipuna Eru Tamaikoha (not sure if it's the original painted by Gottfried Lindauer). Sam Haami Rangiahua - Tuhoe / Ngati Tawhaki.We welcome your comments on the portraits. Latest comments about Eru Tamaikoha Te Ariari Judith Binney, Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2009.Bay of Plenty Times article quoted in: ‘ Advertisements Column 4’, Timaru Herald, vol XXIV, issue 1394, 17 April 1876, p 3, Papers Past, accessed 3 March 2010.This portrait was painted inġ903 and Tamaikoha died on 5 September 1915. Perhaps Lindauer took the opportunity to attend the proceedingĪnd create this portrait of Tamaikoha. Or a boat, and expresses the greatest wonder at the steamer ![]() Of the cannibal to interview Mr Tamaikoha during his stay in theirĬity This native has never, been to sea before either in a canoe ![]() WeĪdvise our Auckland: friends who have not yet seen a real specimen Rowena from Opotiki en route for Auckland, as a witness for, theĭefence in the case, of Regina vs Himiona, the Te Teko murderer. The renowned fighting chief of Te Urewera arrived yesterday per Regina versus Himiona, a sensational trial involving witchcraft and Tamaikoha visited Auckland as a defence witness in the case of Who he was, where his lands were and why he should be able to The same indignity experienced by other leaders of having to prove Intense loss of political and social autonomy and later suffered Prevent the loss of land to Government forces. Significant Tuhoe leader whose generation fought tirelessly to Original people of Te Urewera, Te Hapuoneone. Hisįather was Te Ariari o Tu and his mother was Tiramate. Eru Tamaikoha belonged to the Ngāti Tama hapu of Waimana.
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