Te Kanawa

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For the New Zealand opera singer, see Kiri Te Kanawa

There are at least four different people called "Te Kanawa".

1 The Tupuna Te Kanawa
2 Te Kanawa of Ngati Maniapoto
3 Te Kanawa of Ngati Katoa
- 3.1 Sources
4 Te Kanawa of Ngati Mahuta and Ngati Naho
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[edit] The Tupuna Te Kanawa

One is the tupuna (ancestor) of the Ngati Te Kanawa iwi of the Tainui confederation of iwi. He was born before 1700 and lived in Hangatiki.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 at Kawhia in the time when Ngati Katoa were the tangata whenua. This was before Te Rauparaha had left Kawhia around 1820.

[edit] Sources

Angela Ballara: "Taua".

Pei Te Hurunui: "King Potatau"

[edit] Te Kanawa of Ngati Mahuta and Ngati Naho

Another was a chief of the Ngati Mahuta and Ngati Naho iwi, and was one of the principal chiefs of the Waikato Māori. He was a close confederate of Pōtatau 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 at Haurua Pā. Haurua Pā stood where the Waitomo 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.