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yet he was very nervous of the Te Kooti's power to dominate. For months Rewi observed Te Kooti at close hand, as the Kīngitanga were considering restarting the fight against the government. The Kīngitanga was impressed by Te Kooti's audacity. Rewi himself wanted to judge Te Kooti's military prowess before coming to some political arrangement with him. They offered Te Kooti the option of living in peace in the King
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range. At this the defenders panicked and, leaving 50 toa (warriors) in the pā, the rest made a sudden breakthrough the government lines and into adjacent swamps. All 50 in the pā were killed or taken prisoner. 160 Kīngitanga people died. Half of the escapees were wounded. Seventeen of the government forces died and 52 were wounded.
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mills, and the mass planting of fruit trees. The missionaries, together with the government, initially financed the mills and arranged for
European millers to settle and produce flour. The missionaries built a trade school in Te Awamutu to teach literacy and practical skills such as making and repairing agricultural tools.
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fluently, invited them to surrender or at least let out the woman and children. The
Kingites replied with the famous words "Ka whawhai tonu mātou, Ake! Ake! Ake!" ("We will fight on forever and ever!"). At 3:30pm the same day a gun was brought to the head of the sap and shelled the pā at point-blank
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Other events, such as the attempted kidnapping of settlers' wives and children, further raised tension, as did the interference by
Catholic missionaries who suggested British settlers and officials were spies. Pompallier, the Catholic Bishop, further heightened tension by suggesting he start another
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Catholic missionaries who also settled in the area. He was educated by Wesleyan missionaries and became literate and welcomed the development of his rohe into a productive European style farming community with the planting of wheat, the establishment of several flour
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European settlers. When Te Kooti came to Te Kuiti in 1869 he came to challenge Tawhaio for Māori kingship. The king was hostile to Rewi's actions as he did not want the Kīngitanga associated with Te Kooti's extreme violence and anti government activity
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During the 1850s he became influenced by Māori who wanted greater autonomy. He was one of five chiefs who signed a document banning
Government magistrates from his rohe. When conflict arose over Māori land sales in Taranaki he sided with those Māori who withheld their land from sale and by 1860 was
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The core of Ngati Mahuta then moved out of the area in 1849 to settle on land in Māngere provided for them by the government to guard
Auckland from an attack from the south. This event demonstrates the character of the redoubtable Rewi, as Te Wherowhero was a great warrior chief not to be trifled
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He destroyed a magistrates court in North
Waikato and together with Wiremu Kīngi destroyed the trade school at Te Awamutu, stealing the press. Rewi was annoyed that the government was publishing an anti-Kīngitanga paper in his rohe. Other Waikato chiefs were concerned at his actions. Several large
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Waikato iwi in the Te Awamutu area over long-contested land. Ngati Maniapoto was jealous of the attention given to Ngati Mahuta and Ngāti Raukawa who had acquired European knowledge and goods. Initially, only a few acres were sold to settlers. Later 800 acres was
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and Taranaki chiefs to get them to sell land to the government but they refused. However, he discovered that Rewi Maniapoto was keen to sell land. Initially, the government's idea was to open up the land to European settlers to encourage assimilation. Eventually Rewi agreed to sell land to the
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became Native Minister. He was a fluent Māori speaker and had assisted East Coast Māori in the Repudiation Movement in their efforts to reclaim the land they claimed had been wrongfully sold to large runholders. Sheehan had enhanced his reputation with Māori for backing them against government
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sold for the trade school and its food supply. Tensions simmered verging on open war. Ngati Mahuta was intimidated by Maniapoto and promised not to sell any more land. Throughout this period Rewi Maniapoto was the tribal chief.
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government for the main trunk railway line on the understanding that his men would be paid to cut the bush for the surveyors and no alcohol was to be sold in the King Country. Maniapoto was returned his tribal land at
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south of the Puniu River with the surviving Māori. He constructed two more pā but the government forces did not follow him into the hills. Maniapoto played host to the
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