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    Hōne Wiremu Heke Pōkai (c. 1807/1808 – 7 August 1850), born Heke Pōkai and later often referred to as Hōne Heke, was a highly influential Māori rangatira...
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    The Flagstaff War, also known as Heke's War, Hōne Heke's Rebellion and the Northern War, was fought between 11 March 1845 and 11 January 1846 in and around...
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  • Hone Heke Rankin OBE (13 January, 1896, – 16 April, 1964), also known as John Rankin, was a New Zealand tribal leader, medical worker and farmer. Of Māori...
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    Hōne Heke Ngāpua (6 June 1869 – 9 February 1909) was a Māori and Liberal Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand. He was born in Kaikohe, and was named...
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    other Ngāpuhi chiefs undertook to keep Heke in check and to protect the Europeans in Bay of Islands. Hone Heke did not attend but sent a conciliatory...
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    controversial amongst the Ngāti Toa people. In March 1845, Māori chief Hōne Heke began the Flagstaff War, the causes of which can be attributed to the...
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    It was, however, a bloodless "war", with only a few shots being fired. Hōne Heke Ngāpua, MHR for Northern Māori, was responsible for de-escalating the...
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    Henry Despard, and Māori warriors of the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe), led by Hōne Heke and Te Ruki Kawiti, during the Flagstaff War in the Bay of Islands region...
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    Chiefs such as Hōne Heke, Pumuka, Te Wharerahi, Tāmati Wāka Nene and his brother Eruera Maihi Patuone were accepting of the Governor. Hōne Heke said: Governor...
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    missionaries' presence, but did not convert. Hōne Heke attended the CMS mission school at Kerikeri and Heke and his wife Ono, were baptised in 1835. By...
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    (1770s – 5 May 1854) was a prominent Māori rangatira (chief). He and Hōne Heke successfully fought the British in the Flagstaff War in 1845–46. He traced...
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    the same. Hone Heke attended the CMS mission school at Kerikeri in 1824 and 1825. Heke and his wife Ono were baptised on 9 August 1835 and Heke later became...
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    first to sign the Treaty of Waitangi in February 1840, Ngāpuhi chief Hōne Heke became increasingly unhappy with the outcome. He objected to the relocation...
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  • William Hone (cricketer) (1842–1919), Irish cricketer Hone Harawira, New Zealand politician Hōne Heke (1810?–1850), Māori chief in New Zealand Hōne Heke Ngāpua...
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    (used by the Ngāpuhi to mean British European) began to deteriorate. Hōne Heke, a local Māori chief, identified the flagstaff flying the Union Jack above...
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    Māori warriors, led by Hōne Heke and Te Ruki Kawiti, during the Flagstaff War in the Bay of Islands region of New Zealand. After Heke and Kawiti's sacking...
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    of Governors William Hobson and Robert FitzRoy, and the Ngā Puhi chief Hōne Heke. In 2003, he published the book Tohunga: Hohepa Kereopa, an explication...
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    marines and volunteers having destroyed a coastal pā at Ōtuihu moved on Hone Heke at his new pā (Te Mawhe Pā) on the Lake Ōmāpere side of Puketutu which...
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    the time, including Māui Pōmare and all four Maori MPs (Āpirana Ngata, Hōne Heke Ngāpua, Tame Parata and Henare Kaihau). According to Willie Jackson, the...
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    the Union Jack on Flagstaff Hill above the town. The town was sacked by Hōne Heke, after diversionary raids drew away the British defenders. The flagstaff...
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    should it become necessary after the violent uprising of Māori under Hōne Heke and Kawiti. Grey had learnt the importance of having the support of kūpapa...
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    did not support Hōne Heke's actions in what is known as the Flagstaff War. After the Battle of Kororāreka on 11 March 1845, when Hōne Heke and Te Ruki Kawiti...
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    becoming increasingly unhappy with the outcome of the Treaty of Waitangi. Hōne Heke, a rangatira who was the first to sign the treaty, had been assured by...
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    arrived in New Zealand to take up his appointment as governor. At this time Hōne Heke challenged the authority of the British, beginning by cutting down the...
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  • Kona was the mother of Hōne Heke. "Hongi Hika". Encyclopedia of New Zealand (1966). Kawharu, Freda Rankin. "Heke Pokai, Hone Wiremu". Dictionary of New...
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  • Bay of Islands and Omanaia, and later served as a spiritual advisor to Hone Heke. Papahurihia's early life is uncertain, but his parents were allegedly...
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    Hōne Heke cutting down the flagstaff flying the Union Jack at Kororāreka, 1844...
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  • Going, All Black George Henare, actor Taurekareka Henare, politician Hōne Heke, tribal leader Donna Awatere Huata, politician and Maori rights activist...
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  • Kerikeri. Many notable Māori were born in the Bay of Islands, including Hōne Heke who several times cut down the flagpole at Kororāreka (Russell) to start...
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    the north of New Zealand against the chief Heke from the perspective of an imaginary supporter of Hōne Heke, who was one of the principal antagonists opposing...
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