Te Pūoho-o-te-rangi (died 1836 or 1837) was a notable New Zealand tribal leader. A
Māori, he identified with the
Ngāti Tama and
Ngāti Toa iwi. Te Pūoho was born in
Poutama
Koriniti is a settlement upriver from Whanganui, New Zealand, home to the Ngāti Pāmoana hapū of the iwi Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi.
The Māori settlement of Operiki was one of the larger on the Whanganui River, with a population of about ...
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Taranaki, New Zealand, possibly in the late eighteenth century. Late in his life, he moved to the South Island and settled at
Parapara.
In 1836, Te Pūoho led a 100-person war party (), armed with
muskets, down the
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and over the
Haast Pass / Tioripatea: they fell on the
Ngāi Tahu encampment between
Lake Wānaka and
Lake Hāwea, capturing ten people and killing and eating two children.
Some of the Ngāi Tahu fled down the
Waitaki River to the coast; Te Pūoho took his captives over the
Crown Range to
Lake Wakatipu and thence to
Southland where he was killed and his war party destroyed by the southern Ngāi Tahu leader
Tūhawaiki.
References
Ngāti Tama people
Ngāti Toa people
Year of birth missing
1836 deaths
New Zealand Māori soldiers
People from Taranaki
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