‘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
Further Weslyan missions established and includes separate schools for native and half-caste children at Ōtawhao (Te Awamutu)
Kawhia sheet
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.
become refugees
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.
Native Schools Act 1867 premised on an assimilationist policy and the suppression of te reo Māori.
Ngāti Maniapoto peace negotiations with Donald Mclean at Te Pahiko near Te Kuiti.
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.
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.
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.
great Ngāti Maniapoto
diplomat and negotiator.
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.
introduces rates on Māori land.
Amnesty Act
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’.
the Crown’s right of pre-emption in the King Country.
Gives the Crown a monopoly on the purchase of Native land.
