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The movement spread throughout the North Island. Parts of it were usurped by militant Hau Hau which led to war between the colonizing forces and militant Māori forces. It also produced civil war amongst Māori tribes as exemplified by that involving [[Ngāti Porou]] between 1865 and the 1870s in the East Cape and Gisborne regions. |
The movement spread throughout the North Island. Parts of it were usurped by militant Hau Hau which led to war between the colonizing forces and militant Māori forces. It also produced civil war amongst Māori tribes as exemplified by that involving [[Ngāti Porou]] between 1865 and the 1870s in the East Cape and Gisborne regions. |
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The Hauhau cult promised immunity from bullets, aiming to drive Pākehā from Māori land, and seeking support for the Kīngitanga, the movement to create a rebel Māori nation under a Māori king. |
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The mindset of the militant Hauhau was revealed by [[Volkner incident|the gruesome murder of the Anglican Reverend Carl Völkner]] in 1865 at [[Opotiki]] which led to reprisals from the colonial militia with confiscation of lands and jailing followed by execution of a local chief and associates, |
The mindset of the militant Hauhau was revealed by [[Volkner incident|the gruesome murder of the Anglican Reverend Carl Völkner]] in 1865 at [[Opotiki]] which led to reprisals from the colonial militia with confiscation of lands and jailing followed by execution of a local chief and associates.The reverend Volkner had gone to Auckland during the land wars in the Waikato and Tauraunga and in his absence the Catholic priest Father Garavel had carried a letter of support from Opotiki Kingities to Waikato Kingities. The Catholic Church, horrified at his support for the anti government rebels, expelled him from New Zealand. Hau hau in Opotiki spread the false rumour that the government had hung Father Garavel and blamed Volkner for this.The murderer Kereopa who had eaten Volkner's eyes and drunk his blood, was captured and executed in 1872 by British forces. |
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==See also== |
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Hauhau is a Māori term that was applied to a branch of the religious movement Pai Marire, founded by Te Ua Haumēne of the Taranaki tribe in New Zealand in the 1860s. The movement inculcated that Māori would regain land that they had lost to Europeans during the colonisation process of New Zealand.
The movement spread throughout the North Island. Parts of it were usurped by militant Hau Hau which led to war between the colonizing forces and militant Māori forces. It also produced civil war amongst Māori tribes as exemplified by that involving Ngāti Porou between 1865 and the 1870s in the East Cape and Gisborne regions.
The Hauhau cult promised immunity from bullets, aiming to drive Pākehā from Māori land, and seeking support for the Kīngitanga, the movement to create a rebel Māori nation under a Māori king.
The mindset of the militant Hauhau was revealed by the gruesome murder of the Anglican Reverend Carl Völkner in 1865 at Opotiki which led to reprisals from the colonial militia with confiscation of lands and jailing followed by execution of a local chief and associates.The reverend Volkner had gone to Auckland during the land wars in the Waikato and Tauraunga and in his absence the Catholic priest Father Garavel had carried a letter of support from Opotiki Kingities to Waikato Kingities. The Catholic Church, horrified at his support for the anti government rebels, expelled him from New Zealand. Hau hau in Opotiki spread the false rumour that the government had hung Father Garavel and blamed Volkner for this.The murderer Kereopa who had eaten Volkner's eyes and drunk his blood, was captured and executed in 1872 by British forces.