Parihaka

Parihaka was invaded on 5 November 1881. These resources give some background to Te Rā o te Pāhua (the Day of Plunder), the prophets Te Whiti and Tohu and their non-violent passive resistance to the confiscation of whenua Māori. It also looks at how and why the place and it’s people are remembered today. SCIS no. 1892958

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Parihaka Pa
Parihaka Pa
Parihaka Pa showing dwellings and other buildings. Photograph taken by William Andrews Collis. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Parihaka Quantity: 1 b&w original neg...
Articles
Parihaka ploughing campaign begins
Under the leadership of Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi, Parihaka Māori began a ploughing campaign in protest against European settlement on land confiscated from Māori.
Images
"Parihaka"
"Parihaka"
Watercolour depicting Parihaka November 1881. Brown whare middle foreground. Te Whiti o Rongomai's house - Miti mai te Arero - is on the left of the middleground. The other white European-style bui...
Other
Parihaka teaching resource
Parihaka o neherā, o nāianei: Parihaka – past and present. A teaching resource for years 1 to 13.
Images
Erueti Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III - Sketch made by William Francis Robert Gordon
Erueti Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III - Sketch made by William Francis Robert Gordon
Carte-de-visite portrait of Erueti Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III, a copy of an 1880 sketch by William Francis Robert Gordon, taken ca 1880s by an unknown photographer. Location of original unknown. W F ...
Other
Tohu Kakahi
Tohu Kakahi
Images
Actions at Parihaka
When the government enforced land confiscation around Parihaka in Taranaki, followers of Te Whiti and Tohu peacefully resisted. This cartoon captures the effects of the confiscation. Find out more,...
Images
Flag, Parihaka
Flag, Parihaka
Parihaka flag consisting of broad red, brown and navy blue stripes with three white feathers on a scroll. Commissioned by James Mack for an exhibition held at Waikato Art Museum in 1973, focusing o...
Articles
Ngā Tātarakihi o Parihaka
This downloadable story, set at Parihaka just prior to the government raid in 1881, is told from the perspective of a young girl who was living there.
Articles
Invasion of pacifist settlement at Parihaka
About 1600 troops invaded the western Taranaki settlement of Parihaka, which had come to symbolise peaceful resistance to the confiscation of Māori land.
Images
Former prisoners return to Parihaka
Former prisoners return to Parihaka
In 1881 government forces entered the village of Parihaka, the centre of a peaceful Māori resistance movement, arrested many of its inhabitants, drove many others away, and destroyed most of the bu...
Audio
Call for taonga to be returned to Parihaka from Nelson
Taonga stolen during the invasion of Parihaka remain in vaults and on mantlepieces of Nelson homes.
Research papers
‘Alienation of Land within the Parihaka Block’
[Commissioned Research Report] The aim of this report is to provide information on what happened to the land within the Parihaka Block from the time it was confiscated to the present.
Articles
Māori prophetic movements – ngā poropiti: Te Whiti and Tohu – Parihaka
Te Whiti and Tohu Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi were notable prophets who were Taranaki kinsmen and married to sisters. In 1862 Te Whiti had helped passengers and crew escape from the wreck o...
Images
John Bryce. Native Minister
John Bryce. Native Minister
Videos
Tātarakihi - The Children of Parihaka
Tātarakihi - The Children of Parihaka
In 1881, after being met by the pā's children holding white feathers of peace, invading constabulary ended Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi's passive resistance at Parihaka in Taranaki. One of t...
Videos
Parihaka
Parihaka
The Taranaki village of Parihaka was where peaceful protest met military force. On 5 November 1881, 1400+ troops expelled the inhabitants, and destroyed much of the village. Māori prophets Te Whiti...
Books
Parihaka — Ask that Mountain the story of Parihaka by Dick Scott — Heinnemann/Southern Cross (1975) $8.50 - Salient. Victoria University Students Newspaper. Vol. 38, No 3. March 21, 1975
Reviewed by Anthony Ward The story of Parihaka is a long and bitter one, characterised on one side by the dignity of the Maori leaders Te Whiti and Tohu and the patient determination of the many tr...
Books
THE TARANAKI FRONTIER AND THE EXPEDITION TO PARIHAKA - The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume II: The Hauhau Wars, (1864–72)
The story of Parihaka, the one-time famous home of Te Whiti, the Prophet of the Mountain, has an important place in the annals of military enterprise and frontier adventure in New Zealand. Te Whiti...
Audio
Aureretanga Parihaka
Aureretanga Parihaka
Te Ahi Kaa this week features a dramatised documentary recreating the political manoeuvrings behind the invasion of Parihaka in Taranaki on 5 November 1881.
Articles
The story of John Bryce
Taranaki Māori had a nickname for John Bryce. They called him “Bryce Kōhuru” - Bryce the Murderer.
Audio
Parihaka gatherings
Parihaka gatherings
This gathering of people at Parihaka was photographed in the 1880s. Such events have been taking place since the Taranaki wars of the 1860s. At that time the Parihaka leaders Te Whiti-o-Rongomai an...
Images
Burnt remains of Te Raukura meeting house, Parihaka
Burnt remains of Te Raukura meeting house, Parihaka
Shows the burnt remains of Te Raukura meeting house at Parihaka. Two remnant fireplaces are visible in the midground and there is a building visible in the background. In the foreground weeds are g...
Audio
Parihaka
Parihaka
Mt Taranaki forms a dramatic backdrop to the settlement of Parihaka, painted by George Clarendon Beale around 1881. In the 1870s Parihaka had become the base for peaceful resistance to the land con...
Images
The New Zealand Settlements Act of 1863
The New Zealand Settlements Act of 1863
This law, passed in December 1863, allowed for the confiscation of land – without compensation – from any North Island tribe said to be ‘in rebellion against Her Majesty’s authority’. Under the pro...
Images
Parihaka International Peace Festival 2009 [poster]
Parihaka International Peace Festival 2009 [poster]
Poster advertising the Parihaka International Peace Festival held at Parihaka, 9 - 11 January 2009
Images
‘Comet over Mt Taranaki and Parihaka’
‘Comet over Mt Taranaki and Parihaka’
After the wars of the 1860s, large areas of land were confiscated from Māori. In Taranaki, resistance to the ongoing loss of land, and to European occupation of it, was centred at Parihaka. It was ...
Articles
Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III, Erueti
Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III was a descendant of both Awa-nui-a-rangi, the founder of Te Ati Awa of Taranaki, and Tahu-ao-ariki.
Articles
Reconciliation package for Parihaka
Details of $9m reconciliation package for Parihaka revealed.
Articles
Why wasn’t I told?
The tragedy of New Zealanders not being aware of Te Whiti and Parihaka.
Articles
Parihaka and the New Zealand Wars
A historian includes Parihaka in the New Zealand Wars.
Articles
The story of Te Whiti
Story of Te Whiti, from ancestral links, influence and his role in Parihaka
Articles
Truths far greater than myths
The truth about Māori political prisoners held in Dunedin Prison.
Websites
WWW
Parihaka — Past, Present and Futurre
Website on the history of Parihaka, the reconciliation process and initiatives for the future.
Images
Parihaka Pā
Image of Parihaka Pā and its location in Taranaki.
Audio
Replace Guy Fawkes with Parihaka Day
Māori Party calls for New Zealand to recognise Parihaka instead of Guy Fawkes.
Articles
Parihaka memorial
Image of Parihaka Memorial outside the Dominion Museum in Wellington.
Articles
Parihaka Grieving
Poem about Parihaka by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell.
Videos
Parihaka Peace festival
Celebrating Parihaka Peace Festival in 2010.
Articles
Studying Parihaka
NCEA Year 11 guide on studying Parihaka.
Articles
Making connections
Reflects on the history of Parihaka marae, Taranaki, and its connections to Dunedin and the Hocken Collection via historical and spiritual reminders of the exile and imprisonment of many Taranaki M...
Articles
Historic caves have a story to tell
Chris Morris explores the story of Parihaka prisoners kept in caves.
Articles
Te Pire Haeata ki Parihaka/Parihaka Reconciliation Bill
This bill records elements of Te Kawenata ō Rongo, the deed of reconciliation signed on 9 June 2017 in which the Crown and the Parihaka community agree to reconcile their relationship.
Articles
Apology to Parihaka
In 2017 the people of Parihaka were given a long-awaited apology by the Crown for actions in the late 1800s.
Videos
A photographic survey of 1881
A photographic survey of Parihaka in 1881.
Images
The comet in the sky
Auahi-roa and auahi-tūroa, means ‘long smoke trails’, 2 Māori names for comets. Te Whiti’s name was said to be derived from a comet. However he was in prison in 1882 when this photo was taken. Con...
Newspapers
Respect to the departed prophets
This lengthy report is about Parihaka and the strained relationship between the followers of the 2 peace prophets. Tohu and Te Whiti, which the writer suspects was contrived to sustain the interest...
Images
For diver’s reasons
John Bryce, the man in uniform was Minister for Native Affairs and of Defence in 1881. The image symbolises the government's treatment of passive resisters at Parihaka by cutting off supplies of fo...
Newspapers
Parihaka rejoicings
This report focuses on the attempt at reconciliation between the people of Parihaka and the Crown. The visiting Minister was presented with gifts by Tohu’s son. The report notes that some of the ol...
Images
Tohu Kākahi
This engraved portrait of Tohu Kākahi was created by John Ward for his publication ‘Wandering with the Māori Prophets Te Whiti and Tohu.’ Tohu was a teacher, prophet and a relative of Te Whiti. Ins...
Newspapers
The Parihaka incident
This is a brief report of the invasion of Parihaka and the arrest of Te Whiti, Tohu, Titokowaru and Hiroki. The Māori who were under instructions from Te Whiti not to resort to violence offered no ...
Images
Rangi Kapuia
The Rangi Kapuia meeting house was built by Tohu Kākahi. The name means ‘Draw the people together; Gather the skies.’ It was opened in 1927 on Parihaka Pa. The playing card symbols seen on the buil...
Images
Te Whiti’s monument
Te Whiti o Rongomai was a powerful pacifist leader who preached the message of nonviolence from Parihaka. Elders of Parihaka believe he was born in 1815. He died on 18 November 1907. The words on ...
Images
The white feather
Taare Waitare, a wealthy Māori played an important role in Parihaka, especially in its management and modernisation. In this image, he is surrounded by children wearing white feathers in their hair...
Articles
Confiscation
The Crown passes the New Zealand Settlements Act in 1863.
Images
GLORIOUS CAPTURE OE TE WHITI, TOHU, AND HIROKI. (Observer, 12 November 1881)
GLORIOUS CAPTURE OE TE WHITI, TOHU, AND HIROKI. (Observer, 12 November 1881)
Websites
WWW
EPIC
Find more information on this topic on EPIC. Databases recommended: New Zealand History Collection, New Zealand Geographic, Australia & New Zealand Reference Centre Plus. School login maybe required.
Articles
The Taranaki Report: Kaupapa Tuatahi
Tribunal’s report on The Taranaki Report: Kaupapa Tuatahi released in 1996.
Articles
Te Tau O Te Pāhuatanga / The Pāhua
Taranaki Iwi remember the Day of Plunder.
Books
Parihaka invaded by Dick Scott
An extract from the book describes what happened when troops and settler volunteers invaded the village of Parihaka on 5 November 1881. Find this extract from The New Zealand History Collection av...
Images
Fife and drum band at Parihaka Pa
Fife and drum band at Parihaka Pa
A fife and drum band outside the house of W Te Whiti in Parihaka. Photograph taken by William Andrews Collis, circa 1880s to 1890s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - F...
Articles
Parihaka has waited a long time for this day
The full apology from the Crown to the people of Parihaka, delivered by Attorney-General Chris Finlayson.
Articles
Parihaka by Apirana Taylor
A poem about Parihaka by Apirana Taylor.
Articles
Return to Parihaka
Angela Clifford gets a sense of powerful values or kaupapa from Parihaka.
Articles
The Parihaka prisoners and the legend of the caves
Discovery of the Dunedin caves that held Māori men from Taranaki in the late 1800s.
Audio
The legacy of Parihaka
Rachel Buchanan and Mahara Okeroa talk with Maria Bargh about the 1881 invasion of Parihaka and the implications of Taranaki land confiscations today.
Other
Stories of place in Aotearoa NZ
Use these activities to inspire curiosity into Māori and Pakeha perspectives and ‘stories of place.’
Audio
The pa, the president and the prophet
An account of the Taranaki land disputes of the 1870s and 1880s.
Articles
Parihaka, 5 November 1881
What happened that morning in Parihaka on November 5, 1881? Te Whiti O Rongomai by Danny Keenan sets the scene for the armed invasion.
Newspapers
THE PARIHAKA "RIOTERS." (Marlborough Express, 29 November 1881)
A reporter mocks the Minister of Native Affairs for reading the Riot Act to the peaceful resistance at Parihaka.
Newspapers
Te Whiti arrested
A report from the Press Association Special on the peaceful scene at Parihaka prior to the arrival of Bryce and the Armed Constabulary at Parihaka.
Newspapers
The Parihaka meeting. (Timaru Herald, 03 November 1881)
Interpretations of speeches made by Te Whiti and Tohu at Parihaka.
Articles
New insights into the 1881 invasion
A 19th-century murder in Poneke uncovers new insights into the invasion of Parihaka.
Audio
Anthony Ritchie: Remember Parihaka
Sample music score of ‘Remembering Parihaka’ by Anthony Ritchie.
Articles
Law musue
How NZ’s colonial government misused laws to crush non-violent dissent at Parihaka
Videos
Parihaka visitor centre
Jim Bolger and land trustee Tina Morrison respond to the development of an education and visitor centre at Parihaka.
Videos
Colonists and courts
Land laws undermined Māori ownership traditions and led to the raid on Parihaka.
Images
"The Entrance to the Armed Constabulary camp at Pungarehu in Taranaki"
"The Entrance to the Armed Constabulary camp at Pungarehu in Taranaki"
Seven members of the Armed Constabulary pictured at the entrance to the Pungarehu Armed Constabulary camp. They are dressed in uniform and are wearing caps. A dog is lying on the ground in front ...
Articles
Parihaka name to be protected
Parihaka Reconciliation Bill passed its second reading on 1 August 2019 and introduces new and unique protection for the name PARIHAKA that will prevent its unauthorised commercial use.
Videos
City Gallery, Wellington. Parihaka:The Art of Passive Resistence
City Gallery, Wellington. Parihaka:The Art of Passive Resistence
Television commercial for an exhibition at Wellington City Gallery, 2000, 'Parihaka:The Art of Passive Resistance'. Animation showing a British flag overcoming animated letters  spelling 'Parihaka'...
Audio
[He Rerenga Kōrero 1981]
[Henare Te Ua introduces the programme as Te Puna Wai Korero] This week's programme is broadcast from Taranaki to mark the centenary of the storming of Parihaka. Introduced by Aroaro Hond and Haare...
Manuscripts
Letter to the Governor, written at Parihaka, Taranaki
Letter to the Governor, written at Parihaka, Taranaki
Asks the Governor to return the greenstone weapon Kataore, a keepsake from his ancestors. Refers to Grey’s care for the Maori people in the past, and asks he return the weapon and not keep it, to s...
Images
Parihaka Pa
Parihaka Pa
Parihaka Pa showing dwellings and other buildings. Photograph taken by William Andrews Collis. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Parihaka Quantity: 1 b&w original neg...
Articles
Parihaka ploughing campaign begins
Under the leadership of Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi, Parihaka Māori began a ploughing campaign in protest against European settlement on land confiscated from Māori.
Images
"Parihaka"
"Parihaka"
Watercolour depicting Parihaka November 1881. Brown whare middle foreground. Te Whiti o Rongomai's house - Miti mai te Arero - is on the left of the middleground. The other white European-style bui...
Other
Parihaka teaching resource
Parihaka o neherā, o nāianei: Parihaka – past and present. A teaching resource for years 1 to 13.
Images
Erueti Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III - Sketch made by William Francis Robert Gordon
Erueti Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III - Sketch made by William Francis Robert Gordon
Carte-de-visite portrait of Erueti Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III, a copy of an 1880 sketch by William Francis Robert Gordon, taken ca 1880s by an unknown photographer. Location of original unknown. W F ...
Other
Tohu Kakahi
Tohu Kakahi
Images
Actions at Parihaka
When the government enforced land confiscation around Parihaka in Taranaki, followers of Te Whiti and Tohu peacefully resisted. This cartoon captures the effects of the confiscation. Find out more,...
Images
Flag, Parihaka
Flag, Parihaka
Parihaka flag consisting of broad red, brown and navy blue stripes with three white feathers on a scroll. Commissioned by James Mack for an exhibition held at Waikato Art Museum in 1973, focusing o...
Articles
Ngā Tātarakihi o Parihaka
This downloadable story, set at Parihaka just prior to the government raid in 1881, is told from the perspective of a young girl who was living there.
Articles
Invasion of pacifist settlement at Parihaka
About 1600 troops invaded the western Taranaki settlement of Parihaka, which had come to symbolise peaceful resistance to the confiscation of Māori land.
Images
Former prisoners return to Parihaka
Former prisoners return to Parihaka
In 1881 government forces entered the village of Parihaka, the centre of a peaceful Māori resistance movement, arrested many of its inhabitants, drove many others away, and destroyed most of the bu...
Audio
Call for taonga to be returned to Parihaka from Nelson
Taonga stolen during the invasion of Parihaka remain in vaults and on mantlepieces of Nelson homes.
Research papers
‘Alienation of Land within the Parihaka Block’
[Commissioned Research Report] The aim of this report is to provide information on what happened to the land within the Parihaka Block from the time it was confiscated to the present.
Articles
Māori prophetic movements – ngā poropiti: Te Whiti and Tohu – Parihaka
Te Whiti and Tohu Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi were notable prophets who were Taranaki kinsmen and married to sisters. In 1862 Te Whiti had helped passengers and crew escape from the wreck o...
Images
John Bryce. Native Minister
John Bryce. Native Minister
Videos
Tātarakihi - The Children of Parihaka
Tātarakihi - The Children of Parihaka
In 1881, after being met by the pā's children holding white feathers of peace, invading constabulary ended Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi's passive resistance at Parihaka in Taranaki. One of t...
Videos
Parihaka
Parihaka
The Taranaki village of Parihaka was where peaceful protest met military force. On 5 November 1881, 1400+ troops expelled the inhabitants, and destroyed much of the village. Māori prophets Te Whiti...
Books
Parihaka — Ask that Mountain the story of Parihaka by Dick Scott — Heinnemann/Southern Cross (1975) $8.50 - Salient. Victoria University Students Newspaper. Vol. 38, No 3. March 21, 1975
Reviewed by Anthony Ward The story of Parihaka is a long and bitter one, characterised on one side by the dignity of the Maori leaders Te Whiti and Tohu and the patient determination of the many tr...
Books
THE TARANAKI FRONTIER AND THE EXPEDITION TO PARIHAKA - The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume II: The Hauhau Wars, (1864–72)
The story of Parihaka, the one-time famous home of Te Whiti, the Prophet of the Mountain, has an important place in the annals of military enterprise and frontier adventure in New Zealand. Te Whiti...
Audio
Aureretanga Parihaka
Aureretanga Parihaka
Te Ahi Kaa this week features a dramatised documentary recreating the political manoeuvrings behind the invasion of Parihaka in Taranaki on 5 November 1881.
Articles
The story of John Bryce
Taranaki Māori had a nickname for John Bryce. They called him “Bryce Kōhuru” - Bryce the Murderer.
Audio
Parihaka gatherings
Parihaka gatherings
This gathering of people at Parihaka was photographed in the 1880s. Such events have been taking place since the Taranaki wars of the 1860s. At that time the Parihaka leaders Te Whiti-o-Rongomai an...
Images
Burnt remains of Te Raukura meeting house, Parihaka
Burnt remains of Te Raukura meeting house, Parihaka
Shows the burnt remains of Te Raukura meeting house at Parihaka. Two remnant fireplaces are visible in the midground and there is a building visible in the background. In the foreground weeds are g...
Audio
Parihaka
Parihaka
Mt Taranaki forms a dramatic backdrop to the settlement of Parihaka, painted by George Clarendon Beale around 1881. In the 1870s Parihaka had become the base for peaceful resistance to the land con...
Images
The New Zealand Settlements Act of 1863
The New Zealand Settlements Act of 1863
This law, passed in December 1863, allowed for the confiscation of land – without compensation – from any North Island tribe said to be ‘in rebellion against Her Majesty’s authority’. Under the pro...
Images
Parihaka International Peace Festival 2009 [poster]
Parihaka International Peace Festival 2009 [poster]
Poster advertising the Parihaka International Peace Festival held at Parihaka, 9 - 11 January 2009
Images
‘Comet over Mt Taranaki and Parihaka’
‘Comet over Mt Taranaki and Parihaka’
After the wars of the 1860s, large areas of land were confiscated from Māori. In Taranaki, resistance to the ongoing loss of land, and to European occupation of it, was centred at Parihaka. It was ...
Articles
Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III, Erueti
Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III was a descendant of both Awa-nui-a-rangi, the founder of Te Ati Awa of Taranaki, and Tahu-ao-ariki.
Articles
Reconciliation package for Parihaka
Details of $9m reconciliation package for Parihaka revealed.
Articles
Why wasn’t I told?
The tragedy of New Zealanders not being aware of Te Whiti and Parihaka.
Articles
Parihaka and the New Zealand Wars
A historian includes Parihaka in the New Zealand Wars.
Articles
The story of Te Whiti
Story of Te Whiti, from ancestral links, influence and his role in Parihaka
Articles
Truths far greater than myths
The truth about Māori political prisoners held in Dunedin Prison.
Websites
WWW
Parihaka — Past, Present and Futurre
Website on the history of Parihaka, the reconciliation process and initiatives for the future.
Images
Parihaka Pā
Image of Parihaka Pā and its location in Taranaki.
Audio
Replace Guy Fawkes with Parihaka Day
Māori Party calls for New Zealand to recognise Parihaka instead of Guy Fawkes.
Articles
Parihaka memorial
Image of Parihaka Memorial outside the Dominion Museum in Wellington.
Articles
Parihaka Grieving
Poem about Parihaka by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell.
Videos
Parihaka Peace festival
Celebrating Parihaka Peace Festival in 2010.
Articles
Studying Parihaka
NCEA Year 11 guide on studying Parihaka.
Articles
Making connections
Reflects on the history of Parihaka marae, Taranaki, and its connections to Dunedin and the Hocken Collection via historical and spiritual reminders of the exile and imprisonment of many Taranaki M...
Articles
Historic caves have a story to tell
Chris Morris explores the story of Parihaka prisoners kept in caves.
Articles
Te Pire Haeata ki Parihaka/Parihaka Reconciliation Bill
This bill records elements of Te Kawenata ō Rongo, the deed of reconciliation signed on 9 June 2017 in which the Crown and the Parihaka community agree to reconcile their relationship.
Articles
Apology to Parihaka
In 2017 the people of Parihaka were given a long-awaited apology by the Crown for actions in the late 1800s.
Videos
A photographic survey of 1881
A photographic survey of Parihaka in 1881.
Images
The comet in the sky
Auahi-roa and auahi-tūroa, means ‘long smoke trails’, 2 Māori names for comets. Te Whiti’s name was said to be derived from a comet. However he was in prison in 1882 when this photo was taken. Con...
Newspapers
Respect to the departed prophets
This lengthy report is about Parihaka and the strained relationship between the followers of the 2 peace prophets. Tohu and Te Whiti, which the writer suspects was contrived to sustain the interest...
Images
For diver’s reasons
John Bryce, the man in uniform was Minister for Native Affairs and of Defence in 1881. The image symbolises the government's treatment of passive resisters at Parihaka by cutting off supplies of fo...
Newspapers
Parihaka rejoicings
This report focuses on the attempt at reconciliation between the people of Parihaka and the Crown. The visiting Minister was presented with gifts by Tohu’s son. The report notes that some of the ol...
Images
Tohu Kākahi
This engraved portrait of Tohu Kākahi was created by John Ward for his publication ‘Wandering with the Māori Prophets Te Whiti and Tohu.’ Tohu was a teacher, prophet and a relative of Te Whiti. Ins...
Newspapers
The Parihaka incident
This is a brief report of the invasion of Parihaka and the arrest of Te Whiti, Tohu, Titokowaru and Hiroki. The Māori who were under instructions from Te Whiti not to resort to violence offered no ...
Images
Rangi Kapuia
The Rangi Kapuia meeting house was built by Tohu Kākahi. The name means ‘Draw the people together; Gather the skies.’ It was opened in 1927 on Parihaka Pa. The playing card symbols seen on the buil...
Images
Te Whiti’s monument
Te Whiti o Rongomai was a powerful pacifist leader who preached the message of nonviolence from Parihaka. Elders of Parihaka believe he was born in 1815. He died on 18 November 1907. The words on ...
Images
The white feather
Taare Waitare, a wealthy Māori played an important role in Parihaka, especially in its management and modernisation. In this image, he is surrounded by children wearing white feathers in their hair...
Articles
Confiscation
The Crown passes the New Zealand Settlements Act in 1863.
Images
GLORIOUS CAPTURE OE TE WHITI, TOHU, AND HIROKI. (Observer, 12 November 1881)
GLORIOUS CAPTURE OE TE WHITI, TOHU, AND HIROKI. (Observer, 12 November 1881)
Websites
WWW
EPIC
Find more information on this topic on EPIC. Databases recommended: New Zealand History Collection, New Zealand Geographic, Australia & New Zealand Reference Centre Plus. School login maybe required.
Articles
The Taranaki Report: Kaupapa Tuatahi
Tribunal’s report on The Taranaki Report: Kaupapa Tuatahi released in 1996.
Articles
Te Tau O Te Pāhuatanga / The Pāhua
Taranaki Iwi remember the Day of Plunder.
Books
Parihaka invaded by Dick Scott
An extract from the book describes what happened when troops and settler volunteers invaded the village of Parihaka on 5 November 1881. Find this extract from The New Zealand History Collection av...
Images
Fife and drum band at Parihaka Pa
Fife and drum band at Parihaka Pa
A fife and drum band outside the house of W Te Whiti in Parihaka. Photograph taken by William Andrews Collis, circa 1880s to 1890s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - F...
Articles
Parihaka has waited a long time for this day
The full apology from the Crown to the people of Parihaka, delivered by Attorney-General Chris Finlayson.
Articles
Parihaka by Apirana Taylor
A poem about Parihaka by Apirana Taylor.
Articles
Return to Parihaka
Angela Clifford gets a sense of powerful values or kaupapa from Parihaka.
Articles
The Parihaka prisoners and the legend of the caves
Discovery of the Dunedin caves that held Māori men from Taranaki in the late 1800s.
Audio
The legacy of Parihaka
Rachel Buchanan and Mahara Okeroa talk with Maria Bargh about the 1881 invasion of Parihaka and the implications of Taranaki land confiscations today.
Other
Stories of place in Aotearoa NZ
Use these activities to inspire curiosity into Māori and Pakeha perspectives and ‘stories of place.’
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The pa, the president and the prophet
An account of the Taranaki land disputes of the 1870s and 1880s.
Articles
Parihaka, 5 November 1881
What happened that morning in Parihaka on November 5, 1881? Te Whiti O Rongomai by Danny Keenan sets the scene for the armed invasion.
Newspapers
THE PARIHAKA "RIOTERS." (Marlborough Express, 29 November 1881)
A reporter mocks the Minister of Native Affairs for reading the Riot Act to the peaceful resistance at Parihaka.
Newspapers
Te Whiti arrested
A report from the Press Association Special on the peaceful scene at Parihaka prior to the arrival of Bryce and the Armed Constabulary at Parihaka.
Newspapers
The Parihaka meeting. (Timaru Herald, 03 November 1881)
Interpretations of speeches made by Te Whiti and Tohu at Parihaka.
Articles
New insights into the 1881 invasion
A 19th-century murder in Poneke uncovers new insights into the invasion of Parihaka.
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Anthony Ritchie: Remember Parihaka
Sample music score of ‘Remembering Parihaka’ by Anthony Ritchie.
Articles
Law musue
How NZ’s colonial government misused laws to crush non-violent dissent at Parihaka
Videos
Parihaka visitor centre
Jim Bolger and land trustee Tina Morrison respond to the development of an education and visitor centre at Parihaka.
Videos
Colonists and courts
Land laws undermined Māori ownership traditions and led to the raid on Parihaka.
Images
"The Entrance to the Armed Constabulary camp at Pungarehu in Taranaki"
"The Entrance to the Armed Constabulary camp at Pungarehu in Taranaki"
Seven members of the Armed Constabulary pictured at the entrance to the Pungarehu Armed Constabulary camp. They are dressed in uniform and are wearing caps. A dog is lying on the ground in front ...
Articles
Parihaka name to be protected
Parihaka Reconciliation Bill passed its second reading on 1 August 2019 and introduces new and unique protection for the name PARIHAKA that will prevent its unauthorised commercial use.
Videos
City Gallery, Wellington. Parihaka:The Art of Passive Resistence
City Gallery, Wellington. Parihaka:The Art of Passive Resistence
Television commercial for an exhibition at Wellington City Gallery, 2000, 'Parihaka:The Art of Passive Resistance'. Animation showing a British flag overcoming animated letters  spelling 'Parihaka'...
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[He Rerenga Kōrero 1981]
[Henare Te Ua introduces the programme as Te Puna Wai Korero] This week's programme is broadcast from Taranaki to mark the centenary of the storming of Parihaka. Introduced by Aroaro Hond and Haare...
Manuscripts
Letter to the Governor, written at Parihaka, Taranaki
Letter to the Governor, written at Parihaka, Taranaki
Asks the Governor to return the greenstone weapon Kataore, a keepsake from his ancestors. Refers to Grey’s care for the Maori people in the past, and asks he return the weapon and not keep it, to s...

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