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Pare-kāwa
Pare-kāwa was a Māori people, Māori ''rangatira'' (chieftain) of Ngāti Tūwharetoa from the region around Lake Taupō, New Zealand. She is the ancestor of the Ngāti Parekāwa hapū. She probably lived in the mid-seventeenth century. Life Pare-kāwa was the first-born child of Te Rangi-ita (Ngāti Tūwharetoa), Te Rangi-ita and Waitapu. Through her father, Te Rangi-ita, she was a descendant of Tūwharetoa i te Aupōuri. Her mother was the daughter of Te Ata-inutai of Ngāti Raukawa, through whom she was a descendant of Hoturoa, captain of the Tainui (canoe), ''Tainui'' canoe. Her parents had been married as part of a peace agreement which ended an attack by Te Ata-inutai on Ngāti Tūwharetoa. She had three younger sisters, Uru-kaihina, Piunga-tai, and Tore-iti and four younger brothers, Tama-mutu, Manu-nui, Meremere, and Tū-te-tawhā Whare-oneone, Tū-te-tawhā. They all grew up at Marae-kōwhai, north of Lake Taupō, near Mōkai. As the eldest child, Pare-kāwa had signifi ...
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Tū-te-tawhā Whare-oneone
Tū-te-tawhā Whare-oneone was a 17th-century Māori people, Māori ''rangatira'' (chieftain) of Ngāti Tūwharetoa from the region around Lake Taupō, New Zealand. He arranged a raid in revenge for the murder of his maternal grandfather, Te Ata-inutai. He was a brave warrior, but also excessively proud and died when he led an ambitious but ill-conceived raid up the Waikato River to Cambridge, New Zealand, Cambridge. He probably lived in the mid-seventeenth century. He is the ancestor of the Ngāti Tutetawhā hapu of Ngāti Tūwharetoa. Life Tū-te-tawhā was the youngest son of Te Rangi-ita (Ngāti Tūwharetoa), Te Rangi-ita and Waitapu. Through his father, Te Rangi-ita, he was a descendant of Tūwharetoa i te Aupōuri. He was named after his paternal grandfather, Tū-te-tawhā (son of Taringa), Tū-te-tawhā (sometimes referred to as Tū-te-tawhā I) and is referred to as Tū-te-tawhā Whare-oneone or Tū-te-tawhā II in order to distinguish him from him. His mother was the dau ...
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