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| name          = Tāmihana Te Rauparaha<!-- use common name/article title -->
| image         = Formal seated portrait of Tamihana Te Rauparaha, taken by an unknown photographer in 1869.jpg
| alt           = Tāmihana Te Rauparaha, 1869
| caption       = Tāmihana Te Rauparaha, 1869
| birth_name    = Katu<!-- only use if different from name -->
| birth_date    = {{circa|1820}}s<!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per [[WP:DOB]]. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. -->
| birth_place   = [[Pukearuhe]], [[Taranaki]], New Zealand
| death_date    = 24 October {{Death year and age|1876|1820}}<!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --><ref name=dodeath>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13383626 |title=NEW ZEALAND. |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |volume=LXXIV |issue=12,012 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=17 November 1876 |accessdate=10 June 2019 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}} , ''...An historical personage died on the 24th of October, at Otiki-the son of Te Rauparaha,Tamihana Te Rauraraha The father was a well known maker of colonial history , tho son followed in his father's footsteps Tam has leaves a successor, now being educated in a European...''</ref>
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| known_for     = New Zealand [[Māori people|Māori]] leader, Christian evangelist, assessor, writer and farmer.
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| parents       = [[Te Rauparaha]] and Te Ākau
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'''Tāmihana''' (born '''Katu''') '''Te Rauparaha''' (1820s &ndash; October 1876) was a  New Zealand [[Māori people|Māori]] leader, Christian evangelist, assessor, writer and farmer.<ref name="Oct1852">{{cite web |first =  | last = |title= The Church Missionary Gleaner, October 1852|work= Tamahana Te Rauparaha (part 2) |accessdate=18 October 2015 |url= http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Images/CMS_OX_Gleaner_1852_10/7| publisher = [[Adam Matthew Digital]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref>  He was born in [[Pukearuhe]], [[Taranaki]], New Zealand, the son of the great [[Ngāti Toa]] leader [[Te Rauparaha]] and his fifth and senior wife, Te Ākau of [[Tūhourangi]].<ref name="DNZB Te Rauparaha">{{DNZB|title=Tamihana Te Rauparaha|first= Steven|last= Oliver|id=1t75|accessdate=23 April 2017}}</ref>
Tāmihana was strongly influenced by [[New Zealand Church Missionary Society|Church Missionary Society]] teaching.<ref name="ES1">{{cite web|first= Eugene|last= Stock |title = The Story of the New Zealand Mission| date =1913|url= http://anglicanhistory.org/nz/stock1913/ |accessdate=4 March 2019}}</ref><ref name="April1851">{{cite web |first =  | last = |title= The Church Missionary Gleaner, April 1851|work= New-Zealand Chiefs in Committee Drawing Up a Reply to the Society's Jubilee Letter|accessdate=18 October 2015 |url= http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Images/CMS_OX_Gleaner_1850-1851_13/2| publisher = [[Adam Matthew Digital]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref> In 1842 Tāmihana worked as a missionary in the [[South Island]], easing fears of renewed conflict from his father's old enemies. The following year he married [[Ruta Te Kapu]] in [[Ōtaki, New Zealand|Ōtaki]]. In October 1850 he sailed for England,<ref name="Sept1852">{{cite web |first =  | last = |title= The Church Missionary Gleaner, September 1852|work= Tamahana Te Rauparaha (part 1) |accessdate=18 October 2015 |url= http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Images/CMS_OX_Gleaner_1852_09/4 | publisher = [[Adam Matthew Digital]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="Nov1852">{{cite web |first =  | last = |title= The Church Missionary Gleaner, November 1852|work= Tamahana Te Rauparaha (part 3) |accessdate=18 October 2015 |url= http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Images/CMS_OX_Gleaner_1852_11/6| publisher = [[Adam Matthew Digital]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="Dec1852">{{cite web |first =  | last = |title= The Church Missionary Gleaner, November 1852|work= Tamahana Te Rauparaha (part 4) |accessdate=18 October 2015 |url= http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Images/CMS_OX_Gleaner_1852_12/3| publisher = [[Adam Matthew Digital]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref> where he was presented to [[Queen Victoria]]. On his return Tāmihana became supportive of the idea of a [[Māori King]] to unify tribes.<ref name=SocialJustice>{{cite web|title=Tamihana Te Rauparaha|url=http://www.justice.net.nz/justwiki/tamihana-te-rauparaha/|publisher=Social Justice Commission of the Anglican Church|accessdate=22 June 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130223030036/http://www.justice.net.nz/justwiki/tamihana-te-rauparaha/|archivedate=23 February 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Initially he joined the King movement in opposing  the selling of Māori  land to the government, but when a chief of [[Te Āti Awa]], [[Wiremu Kīngi]] got into conflict with the government over the sale of land at [[Waitara, New Zealand|Waitara]], he broke with the movement and sided with the government over issues of land and sovereignty.<ref>Encyclopedia of NZ.T Te Rauparaha.</ref>
He died on 24 October 1876 and is said to be buried in an unmarked grave at Ōtaki, beside his wife.<ref name=dodeath /> They had had no children, but had an adopted son.
==Writer==
Between 1866 and 1869 Tāmihana wrote a 50,000 word account in te reo Māori about his father, the great Te Rauparaha called ''He pukapuka tātaku i ngā mahi a Te Rauparaha nui / A record of the life of the great Te Rauparaha'' which was translated most recently into English by [[Ross Calman]] and published by [[Auckland University Press]]  in 2020.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Te Rauparaha |first=T. |title=He pukapuka tātaku i ngā mahi a Te Rauparaha nui / A record of the life of the great Te Rauparaha / translated by Ross Calman. |date=12 November 2020 |publisher=Auckland University Press |isbn=9781776710591 |pages=5}}</ref> There was an earlier translation between 1915 and 1918 by George Graham although there were flaws in Grahams translation partly due to the copy he used to translate from and partly he mistranslated some sections.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Te Rauparaha |first=Tamihana |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1203143868 |title=He pukapuka tātaku i ngā mahi a Te Rauparaha nui / A record of the life of the great Te Rauparaha / by Tamihana Te Rauparaha ; translated and edited by Ross Calman. |date=2020 |others=Ross Calman |isbn=978-1-86940-920-3 |edition=Dual language edition, Te Reo Māori/English |location=Auckland, New Zealand |oclc=1203143868}}</ref>
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