|
Herea Te Heuheu Tūkino I
Herea or Hereara (–1820), later known as Te Rangi-māheuheu and Te Heuheu Tūkino I, was a Māori people, Māori ''rangatira'' of the Ngāti Tūrū-makina, Ngāti Parekāwa, and Ngāti Te Kohera, Ngāti Te Koherā hapū and paramount chief of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa iwi of the region around Lake Taupō, New Zealand, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Herea succeeded his father as head of Ngāti Tūrū-makina in the late eighteenth century. He led a force during the Tūhoe–Ngāti Tūwharetoa War. Afterwards, he was one of the candidates to succeed as paramount chief after the death of Te Rangi-tua-mātotoru. Initially, a distant cousin, Te Wakaiti, was the preferred candidate, but he outraged the senior chiefs of Ngāti Tūwharetoa with his arrogant treatment of them and they encouraged Herea to take the position instead, favouring him because of his connections with Ngāti Maniapoto of Waikato. After training in the Rangitoto Ranges, he became a master of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paramount Chief
A paramount chief is the English-language designation for a king or queen or the highest-level political leader in a regional or local polity or country administered politically with a Chiefdom, chief-based system. This term is used occasionally in anthropology, anthropological and archaeology, archaeological theory to refer to the rulers of multiple chiefdoms or the rulers of exceptionally powerful chiefdoms that have subordinated others. Paramount chiefs were identified by English-speakers as existing in Native American confederacies and regional chiefdoms, such as the Powhatan Confederacy and Piscataway (tribe), Piscataway Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Native Americans encountered by European colonization of the Americas, European colonists in the Chesapeake Bay region of North America. During the Victorian era, paramount chief was a formal title created by British colonial administrators in the British Empire and applied in Britain's colonies in Asia and Africa. They us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
