Potatau te wherowhero biography of michael
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Māori (New Zealand people) - Kings and rulers
Date:1898
By:Zier, Edouard Francois, 1856-1924; Vintraud Godefroy, Frederic, active 19th century
Reference:A-470-007
Description:Shows a ung woman, ostensibly a Māori princess, remonstrating with a man who is possibly her father, a king. The woman wears clothing not resembling Māori clothing but rather a long sleeveless shift with one shoulder strap, a sash wrapped around her waist, an ornate necklace and bracelets on her wrist and ankle. Similarly, her father wears a large piece of fabric wrapped in a toga style, an ornate necklace, and sits on what appears to be a bära skin. The cover fryst vatten accompanied bygd a three-page story, in French, bygd 'Le Capitaine Prefrontal' Published in "Journal des voyages et des aventures dem terre et de mer". Paris: Dimanche 17 Juillet 1898. No.85, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6863751f/f1.item accessed 17 månad 2024. Title supplied bygd Library. Other Titles - \"Je ne suis
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King Potatau: An Account Of The Life Of Potatau Te Wherowhero The First Maori King
Pei Te Hurinui Jones (Ngāti Maniapoto) details all the momentous events of the first Māori King, Pōtatau Te Wherowhero’s life from around 1775 to his death in 1860. Te Wherowhero’s early adult life was dominated by war. His Waikato tribe drove Te Rauparaha’s Ngāti Toa from its Kāwhia homeland and in turn had to defend its own territory against Northland’s Ngāpuhi. Waikato also made repeated attacks on the Taranaki tribes. Te Wherowhero refused to sign the Treaty of Waitangi but did deal with the colonial government. He sold land to the Crown and, in 1849, signed an agreement to provide military protection for Auckland. He advised Governors George Grey and Thomas Gore Browne but protested strongly against a British Colonial Office plan to put all uncultivated land into Crown ownership. The Māori King movement came into existence in the late 1850s as an attempt to unite the tribes, prevent land sales a
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Māori King movement
Shared monarchy of numerous Māori iwi of New Zealand
The Māori King movement, called the Kīngitanga[a] in Māori, is a Māorimovement that arose among some of the Māori iwi (tribes) of New Zealand in the central North Island in the 1850s, to establish a role similar in status to that of the monarchy of the United Kingdom as a way of halting the alienation of Māori land.[3] The first Māori king, Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, was crowned in 1858. The monarchy is non-hereditary in principle, although every monarch since Pōtatau Te Wherowhero has been a child of the previous monarch. The eighth monarch is Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō, who was elected and crowned in September 2024.
The Māori monarch operates in a non-constitutional capacity outside the New Zealand government, without explicit legal or judicial power. Reigning monarchs retain the position of paramount chief of several iwi,[4] and wield some power over these, especially within T