1820 - 1834

European traders stationed at both Mōkau and Kawhia harbours.

‘Golden Years’ as Ngāti Maniapoto are active traders. They owned ships, flour mills, cattle, horses, pigs, wheat fields. Ngāti Maniapoto ships include the Rere-wiki, the Parininihi, the Re-wini and the Aotearoa.

Wesleyan Methodist missionaries established at Kāwhia followed by further settlements at Mōkau

Potatau signs He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tirene . No other Ngāti Maniapoto chief signs.

Further Weslyan missions established and includes separate schools for native and half-caste children at Ōtawhao (Te Awamutu)

1835

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Treaty of Waitangi,
Kawhia sheet

Treaty of Waitangi signed; Taonui, Te Ngohi (Rewi’s father), Haupokia te Pakaru, Tariki, Nūtoni Te Waraki, .

Section 71 of the NZ Constitutional Act 1852 provides for Native districts.

Ngati Maniapoto Historical Timeline

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ERA: PRODUCTIIVE & PROSPEROUS

1852

Te Puna ō te Roimata hui at Haurua solidifies Ngāti Maniapoto support for the Kingitanga and Pōtatau as the 1st Māori king.

Kīngitanga established. Rewi Maniapoto raises the King’s flag at Ngaruawāhia hui.

Tawhiao proclaimed second Māori king on 5 July 1860.

Rewi Maniapoto supports Wiremu Kingi Te Rangitāke to fight against land sales at Waitara.

1857 - 1860

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1857 Haurua Kingitanga Monument

Government buys four blocks of land totaling about 27,300 hectares around Mōkau and Awakino between 1854 and 1857.

1861

Ngāti Maniapoto population estimated to be 2585.

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Waikato prisoners who would eventually
become refugees

1863 - 1864

Ngāti Maniapoto deploy taua to the Battle of Rangiriri.

Rangiaowhia invaded and the settlement sacked.

The Battle of Ōrakau led by Rewi Maniapoto.

Aukati established and protected.,

King Tāwhiao and approximately 2600 Waikato refugees
retreat across the Puniu river.

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Tāwhiao, Second Māori King

ERA: CONSOLIDATION

CROWN AGREEMENT SELF DETERMINATION

1865 - 1868

Native Land Court established in 1865 to individualise title and breakdown Māori communal living.

Native Schools Act 1867 premised on an assimilationist policy and the suppression of te reo Māori.

1867 Māori Representation Act

1869

Wetere Te Rerenga sacked the redoubt at Pukearuhe (White Cliffs).Rev. John Whitely killed.

Ngāti Maniapoto peace negotiations with Donald Mclean at Te Pahiko near Te Kuiti.

Wetere Te Rerenga and 99 others signed a lease agreement with Joshua Jones or ‘Mokau Jones’ for about 56,000 acres in the Mokau Mohakatino block. Much controversy surrounds this dubious lease agreement.

1873

Te Kooti Rikirangi and 60-70 followers reside in Rereahu at Te Miringa, Te Hape and Tokangamutu for 10 years. As a gesture of thanks, Te Tokanganui-a-noho was built to be a whare rūnanga in Te Kuiti

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Te Kooti

ERA: CROWN AGREEMENT & SELF DETERMINATION

1878 - 1880

Rewi meets Grey at Waitara and the ‘tree of peace’ flourishes.

Rewi described the boundaries of what he considered to be their territory which was essentially to become known as the Rohe Pōtae.

Government build Rewi a house at Kihikihi.

1867 Māori Representation Act

1881

Wahanui present when Tawhiao makes the presentation
of guns to Major William Mair at Alexandra. This token
is his declaration that there would be no more fighting and peace is to prevail.

Bryce invades Parihaka. Maniapoto people at Parihaka. Where Maniapoto people were residing at the time.

Wetere Te Rerenga and 99 others signed a lease agreement with Joshua Jones or ‘Mokau Jones’ for about 56,000 acres in the Mokau Mohakatino block. Much controversy surrounds this dubious lease agreement.

1882

Rewi Maniapoto referred to his long wish “of making the whole of the territory a reserve under my own, that is, the Māori mana ....”

Rewi and Wahanui assert rights to Mōkau lands vis á vis Ngāti Tama claims in Native Land Court.

Mōkau-Mohakatino block passed through the Native Land Court at Waitara so that legal title could be established and the lease legally secured.

So called Joshua Jones leases which would become very controversial. Wahanui.

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Wahanui Huatare, the
great Ngāti Maniapoto
diplomat and negotiator.

ERA: CROWN AGREEMENT & SELF DETERMINATION

LAND FRAGMENTATIO & POLITICAL ADVOCACY

1882

Rewi participates in Native Land Court at Cambridge to defend interests against Ngāti Haua.

Native Minister Bryce meets with Tawhiao. Tawhiao rejects Bryce’s proposals. Bryce blames Wahanui makes veiled threats to Wahanui.

Maniapoto designates a Rohe Pōtae which includes Ngāti Raukawa, Tūwharetoa and Whanganui territories as part of an alliance. This work is led by Taonui.

The Native Lands Rating Act 1882
introduces rates on Māori land.

Amnesty Act

1883

Tension increases with Bryce desire to acquire land Tawhiao opposed to Government surveying land at Kawhia Government also threatening to open up the 50,000 acres it had supposedly purchased at Mōkau.

Alexandra meeting between Wahanui, Rewi and Bryce regarding the surveying of the main trunkline. – te Ara a Tūrongo. There was to be no other land surveys in the area.

Ngāti Maniapoto petitioned to Parliament to establish their own rūnanga or committee for their lands. The first part of the ‘Sacred Compact’ as referred to by Ngāti Maniapoto. Wahanui later refers to this as ‘te ki tapu’.

Native Land Alienation Restriction Act 1884 reasserts
the Crown’s right of pre-emption in the King Country.
Gives the Crown a monopoly on the purchase of Native land.

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1882 Te Rohe Potae Aotea Block

ERA: LAND FRAGMENTATION & POLITICAL ADVOCACY