- Te Kanawa
"For the New Zealand opera singer, see
Kiri Te Kanawa "There are at least four different people called "Te Kanawa".
The Tupuna Te Kanawa
One is the
tupuna (ancestor) of theNgati Te Kanawa iwi of theTainui confederation of iwi. He was born before1700 and lived inHangatiki .Te Kanawa of Ngati Maniapoto
Another was a chief of the
Ngati Maniapoto , another Tainui iwi. He was alive in the early 19th century.Te Kanawa was a warlord of Maniapoto; he settled disputes with a Taiaha in Tainui or out side Tainui. Some of these disputes were boundary disputes, hence the Ngati Hari connection. The Boundary line between Tu Wharetoa and Maniapoto and the marae Kaitepeka by Taumaranui. Te Kanawa is an Amo on their Tupuna Whare.
Te Kanawa of Ngati Katoa
Another was a chief of the
Ngati Katoa . He was killed in the campaign known as Putu-karekare (or Patu-karekare, or Te Karekaernga), which was fought atKawhia in the time when Ngati Katoa were the tangata whenua. This was beforeTe Rauparaha had left Kawhia around 1820.Sources
Angela Ballara: "Taua".
Pei Te Hurunui: "King Potatau"
Te Kanawa of Ngati Mahuta and Ngati Naho
Another was a chief of the
Ngati Mahuta andNgati Naho iwi, and was one of the principal chiefs of theWaikato Māori . He was a close confederate ofPōtatau Te Wherowhero , the first Māori King, and lived from c. 1770 to c. 1860.He was also known as Tuhoro Te Kanawa and was signatory to the treaty signing at
Kawhia and a confederate of King Pōtatau 1850s to the 1880s. He was one of the eight chiefs who sat with Pōtatau atHaurua Pā . Haurua Pā stood where theWaitomo golf links are now.His mother (according to Pei Te Hurunui in his book "King Potatau" (p. 120)) was Te Rahuruake and his sister was Parekohu. He also had a daughter or niece, Te Rangiata.
Tuhoro Te Kanawa is the only descendant that has the blood line links to the Te Kanawa name of the Tupuna Te Kanawa and of Ngati Te Kanawa. Tuhoro Te Kanawa was one of the paramount chiefs of Ngati Maniapoto confederation and Ngati Kinohaku.
Sources
[http://www.maori.org.nz/papa_panui/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=760&FORUM_ID=2&CAT_ID=2&Forum_Title=Finding+Whanau+%28Family%29&Topic_Title=TE+KANAWA%3A Whakapapa Forum Post]
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