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Orakau : E Whawhai Ana Tatou - We Continue The Fight
Paperback Edition: 1
On the 31st of March, British forces numbering over 1600 soldiers attacked a small unfinished fortified pa - Orakau - located approximately 3.5 km south-east of Te Awamutu on Arapuni Road.
It became a 3-day siege which arguably was one of the more well-known of the New Zealand Land Wars, and included many iwi from throughout Aotearoa including Ngaati Raukawa, Waikato, Ngati Maniapoto, Ngai Tuhoe, Rongowhakaata and Ngati Kahungunu, to name a few.
This book has been produced by the Taarewaanga Marae Committee and Trustees with all rights reserved. We wish to make it clear to the reader that in producing this book it is our intention to tell our story, our way, as told to us by our tupuna, this is their version of the story of Orakau. Not as a footnote in the history of the glorious and mighty British Empire; nor as a back-drop to a romantic 19th century novella, but as a lesson in the resilience of a fiercely proud and independent group of people, who, faced with overwhelming, insurmountable odds, vowed never to surrender to their oppressors.
As their descendants, it is our duty to continue the struggle - e whawhai tonu ana tatou - until the promises implicit in the Treaty of Waitangi and the Ohaki Tapu are realised.
Publisher : Taarewaanga Marae
Publication date : 2021
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in New Zealand, New Zealand, Māori, NZ History, Māori History / Kōrero nehe, Māori Indigenous Knowledge / Mātauranga Māori, Disputed Land / Whenua tautohetohe, The New Zealand Wars 1845-1872