Te ua haumene biography examples

New Zealand Māori religious leader

Te Ua Haumēne was a New Zealand Māori religious leader during the 1860s.

He founded the Pai Mārire movement, which became hostile and engaged in military conflict against the New Zealand government during the Second Taranaki War and the East Cape War.

Early life

Born at Waiaua, South Taranaki, in the early 1820s, Te Ua was of the Taranakiiwi (tribe).

His father Tūtawake died soon after his son's birth and Te Ua was captured, along with his mother Paihaka, during a 1826 raid mounted by the Waikatoiwi. Enslaved, their captors took them to Kāwhia. There was a Christian presence in the area, and Te Ua was taught to read and write and also studied the New Testament.^[1] Soon after John Whiteley, a Wesleyan missionary, established a mission station in Kāwhia, Te