Te ua haumene biography for kids
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Pai Mārire
Syncretic Māori religion of the 19th century
The Pai Mārire movement (commonly known as Hauhau) was a syncreticMāori religion founded in Taranaki by the prophet örtinfusion Ua Haumēne. It flourished in the North Island from about 1863 to 1874.[1] Pai Mārire incorporated biblical and Māori spiritual elements and promised its followers deliverance from 'Pākehā' (European) domination.[2] Although founded with peaceful motives—its name means "Good and Peaceful"—Pai Mārire became known for an extremist form of the tro known to the Europeans as "Hauhau".[3] The rise and spread of the violent expression of Pai Mārire was largely a response to the New Zealand Government's military operations against North Island Māori, which were aimed at exerting europeisk sovereignty and gaining more land for white settlement;[2] historian B.J. Dalton claims that after 1865 Māori in arms were almost invariably termed Hauhau.[4]
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Hori Kingi Te Anaua, Hori Kerei Paipai, and Te Ua Haumene
Overview
This essay originally appeared in New Zealand Art at Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2018).
This carefully posed studio photograph depicts three remarkable Māori figures at a tense moment during the New Zealand Wars. The location is Napier, where photographers Swan & Wrigglesworth had a studio, the date is March 1866, and are two allies and one adversary.
On the left sits Hōri Kīngi Te Ānaua, a battle-hardened Whanganui leader, veteran of inter-tribal warfare and ally of the colonial forces of Major-General Trevor Chute in the current conflict. In the middle stands Hōri Kerei Paipai, secretary, aide-de-camp and Māori namesake of the governor, Sir George Grey, his hand resting on his relative Hōri Kīngi’s shoulder. To the right sits the detached figure of Te Ua Haumēne, founder and prophet of the millenarian Hauhau church, whose anti-missionary followers had ritually killed Anglican priest CS Völkner at Ōpōtiki the p
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Robbie Shilliam
1863. Te Ua Haumene, the Māori prophet, writes his gospel.
Te Ua, born in Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand. Raised as a slave of the Waikato people in Kawhia.
Builds his own church. Puts it in service of the anti-colonial King movement.
Peaceable God has told me twice that his people, Forgetful, Standing Naked, in the Island in Two Halves will be restored, even to that which was given unto Abraham, for this is Israel. It was evil that Ham and the black race of old were excluded, because He made both black AND white.
Here is the chant of the soldiers of Te Ua: “Shem, Ham, Father Glory, verily, Hau.”
In the spiritual hinterlands, Te Ua bids enslaved Ham and dispossessed Shem stand together with fates entwined around a colonial injustice.
…leaking through into the manifest…
The Māori King Movement publishes a propaganda newspaper around the same time as Te Ua’s ministry. The editor wishes to span the islands of Ham and Shem:
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