#firstmaoriking The idea for a single Maori leader was held by many from the early 1800's & people like Tamahana te Rauparaha were very vocal. At around the same time Tamahana te Rauparaha travelled to England, Te Akerautangi of the Ngatihikairo sub-tribe travelled to Sydney. He met leaders of the Colonial government & they told him to go back & set up a King in order to stop all the tribal fighting. He took this suggestion to his own people, but they told him to gain the advice of Paramount Chief Potatau Te Wherowhero.
Chief Potatau said that the selection of King must be made by all leading Chiefs of the entire nation. Matene Te Whiwhi, was the Ngatirakawa leader who did exactly that, he took the search for King to all rangitira. In the end. it came back to Chief Potatau. He was chosen.
A man who did not want to be King.
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The Kīngitanga or Māori King movement is one of the longest-running political institutions in New Zealand. Originating in 1858, it continued into the 2000s.
There was no single Māori sovereign when Europeans first came to New Zealand. Māori tribes functioned independently under the leadership of their own chiefs.
By the 1850s Māori were faced with increasing numbers of British settlers, political marginalisation and growing demand from the Crown to purchase their lands. Māori were divided between those who were prepared to sell and those who were not.
Some Māori attributed the power of the British to their one sovereign. This idea was particularly common among men who had travelled to England and had seen British institutions, industry and law and order in operation, such as Piri Kawau (Te Āti Awa), who met Queen Victoria in 1843, and #TāmihanaTeRauparaha (Ngāti Toa), who met her in 1852. They believed that a pan-tribal movement, unifying the Māori people under one sovereign equal to the Queen of England, could bring an end to intertribal conflict, keep Māori land in Māori hands and provide a separate governing body for Māori.
Both Kawau and Tāmihana initially thought they might become king. However, Kawau had admitted to Queen Victoria that Pōtatau Te Wherowhero of Waikato was the most powerful chief in New Zealand, while Tāmihana was reminded by his father, the famous chief Te Rauparaha, that his people had been forced to leave Kāwhia by the powerful Waikato.
9 ноя 2020
