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Wiremu Kingi Te Rangitake
Portrait by an unidentified photographer possibly of the Te Ati Awa leader Wiremu Kingi Te Rangitake, taken about 1880.
Kingi had migrated south to the Kapiti coast following the Waikato invasions of Taranaki in the early 1830s. When the New Zealand Company first made claims that it had purchased his Taranaki lands, Te Rangitake uttered the words that would recur in his later life: 'Waitara shall not be given up.' After later demands from Governor George Grey to give up their ancestral lands, he and 600 of his Te Atiawa moved from Waikanae back to Taranaki in 1848.
Tensions existed within Te Ati Awa between those willing to sell and men such as Kingi. Matters came to a head in Te Teira Manuka offered the government some land near Waitara. Te Rangitake was determined that the land should not be sold. This dispute over land at Waitara led to the outbreak of hostilities in March 1860.
Alexander Turnbull Library,
Reference: 1/2-022668-F
Further information and copies of this image may be obtained from the Library through its 'Timeframes' website, http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa must be obtained before any reuse of this image.
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