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Hongi Hika : warrior chief / Dorothy Urlich Cloher.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland, N.Z. : Viking, [2003]Description: 351 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780143770732
  • 0670045446 (hbk.)
  • 9780670045440 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Warrior chief
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 993.01092 23
LOC classification:
  • DU424.N36 H653 2003
Contents:
One. Borne of a warrior tradition -- Two. The early wars : pre-1820 -- Three. First encounters with Europeans -- Four. Capturing the missionaries -- Five. How do you do, Mr King George? -- Six. The Musket Wars -- Seven. Squaring off with the missionaries : 1820s -- Eight. Priest and protector of the Māori religion -- Nine. Twilight in Whangaroa -- Ten. Death of a warrior -- Eleven. Understanding Hongi Hika -- Appendix. Portraits of Hongi, Marian Minson.
Summary: This biography of Hongi Hika of Ngapuhi describes intimately the first continuous contact between Maori and European. The foremost Maori leader during the early years of European settlement, Hongi Hika led Ngapuhi on their devastating raids during the Musket Wars. Thousands of Maori were killed using the new weapons, and tribal power balances were radically altered. Hongi Hika is also important because he spans the old world and the new. He was a charismatic fighting chief of the old school, brutal when required - he participated in ritualistic cannibalism as a matter of course. But he also befriended European missionaries such as Samuel Marsden and Thomas Kendall, spoke English, and held his own at the English court during his visit to London.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-336) and index.

One. Borne of a warrior tradition -- Two. The early wars : pre-1820 -- Three. First encounters with Europeans -- Four. Capturing the missionaries -- Five. How do you do, Mr King George? -- Six. The Musket Wars -- Seven. Squaring off with the missionaries : 1820s -- Eight. Priest and protector of the Māori religion -- Nine. Twilight in Whangaroa -- Ten. Death of a warrior -- Eleven. Understanding Hongi Hika -- Appendix. Portraits of Hongi, Marian Minson.

This biography of Hongi Hika of Ngapuhi describes intimately the first continuous contact between Maori and European. The foremost Maori leader during the early years of European settlement, Hongi Hika led Ngapuhi on their devastating raids during the Musket Wars. Thousands of Maori were killed using the new weapons, and tribal power balances were radically altered. Hongi Hika is also important because he spans the old world and the new. He was a charismatic fighting chief of the old school, brutal when required - he participated in ritualistic cannibalism as a matter of course. But he also befriended European missionaries such as Samuel Marsden and Thomas Kendall, spoke English, and held his own at the English court during his visit to London.

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