Rua Kēnana was a Tūhoe prophet who set up a community at Maungapōhatu in the Urewera mountains. In 1916 he was arrested for sedition for his opposition to Māori conscription in the First World War. His trial was one of the longest in New Zealand's legal history.
On the morning of Sunday 2 April 1916, 57 armed police invaded the remote Tuhoe settlement of Maungapohatu in the Urewera Ranges. They had come to arrest the prophet Rua Kenana.
