Te Pūoho-o-te-rangi

Te Puoho-o-te-rangi (?–1836/1837?) was a notable New Zealand tribal leader. A Māori, he identified with the Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Toa iwi. Te Puoho was born in Poutama, Taranaki, New Zealand. Late in his life, he moved to the South Island and settled at Parapara.[1]

In 1836, Te Puoho led a 100-person war party, armed with muskets, down the West Coast and over the Haast Pass: they fell on the Ngāi Tahu encampment between Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea, capturing 10 people and killing and eating two children.[2] Some of the Ngāi Tahu fled down the Waitaki river to the coast; Te Puoho 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.[3]

References
  1. Anderson, Atholl. "Te Puoho-o-te-rangi". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. S. Percy Smith (1910). History and Traditions of the Maoris of the West Coast North Island of New Zealand Prior to 1840. New Plymouth: Polynesian Society.
  3. Atholl Anderson (1990). "Te Puoho-o-te-rangi". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. 1. Retrieved 11 July 2017.


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