Te Uamairangi, active 1830s

Wife of Te Wharepouri, leader of Te Ati Awa

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Manuscript

H T Whatahoro Jury - Notebook

Date: 1873-1876

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B040

Description: Contains a list of owners of blocks of land in the Wanganui district, and a number of narratives about; significant events in the history of Ngati Kahungunu, Moriori settlement on the Chatham Islands, events in Hawaiki and subsequent migrations and settlements, the burning of the Te Arawa canoe, and conflicts in the 1820s and 1830s involving Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Porou, Ngapuhi, Rangitane, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa Physical Description: ¼ maroon black boards, 33 cm., vol numbered 26

Manuscript

H T Whatahoro Jury - Whakapapa and note book

Date: n d

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-110A

Description: Contains narratives about Maori ancestors living at Hawaiki, including Manaia and Tamatea, and the reasons that they migrated to New Zealand; also includes narrative about various conflicts in New Zealand involving tribes on the south-eastern seaboard of the North Island, and migrations that led to conflicts, or resulted from them; also contains related waiata and haka. Also contains the story about Ngati Tama, Te Ati Awa invasion of the Wairarapa district, including accounts of the battle of Te Tarata in 1829, the capture of Metapere Te Waipunaahau (Ngati Toa) by the Wairarapa tribes, the capture of Te Uamairangi and Te Kakapi-o-te-Rangi, and subsequent peace making at Pito-one (Petone) between Te Ati Awa and Wairarapa. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Manuscript

H T Whatahoro Jury - Whakapapa book

Date: 1888-1896

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B043

Description: Contains whakapapa, boundaries of land blocks around Lake Wairarapa and statements of ownership, notes about the aftermath of the transfer of Lake Wairarapa to the Government and the distribution of the proceeds, a copy of a letter to Judge Butler of the Maori Land Court with regard to the transfer of Lake Wairarapa Also contains narrative accounts of conflicts between Wairarapa people and Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa in the 1820s and 1830s (including a reference to the Journal of the Polynesian Society), narrative accounts of conflicts between Waikato and Te Ati Awa, and narrative accounts about conflicts in the 1820s involving Ngati Kahungunu, Ngapuhi, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Rangitane, Waikato and Ngati Porou Also contains information about traditional whare wananga and the migration from Hawaiki and subsequent settlements in New Zealand, a narrative about Ira, the ancestor of Ngati Ira, and a history of that hapu; also contains information about early contacts between Te Ati Awa and Pakeha whalers and traders Includes an account of the capture of Metapere Te Waipunahau (Ngati Toa), mother of Wi Parata MHR, by Wairarapa Maori and the peacemaking between these tribes, and the later capture of Te Uamairangi and Te Kakapi-o-te-rangi of Te Ati Awa (Poneke) and their subsequent safe return to Te Wharepouri and Te Ati Awa. Also includes details of the invasion of Ngati Raukawa and Ngati Tuwharetoa of Te Roto-a-Tara, Heretaunga (Hawkes Bay) under the chiefs Te Momo-a-Irawaru and Te Heuheu. Includes mention of conflict between Te Ati Awa, Ngati Tama and Waikato culminating in the siege of Pukerangiora Pa, Taranaki. Physical Description: Maroon boards, 33 cm., vol numbered 28