Personal details
Full Name:
- Rua Hepetipa Kēnana
Lifetime:
- 1868/1869?–20 Feb 1937
Rua Kēnana
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.
Read more...Events In History
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2 April 1916Arrest of Rua KēnanaOn the morning of Sunday 2 April 1916, 57 armed police invaded the remote Tūhoe settlement of Maungapōhatu in the Urewera Ranges. They had come to arrest the prophet and community leader Rua Kēnana. Read more...
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6 May 1869Colonial troops invade the UreweraThe invasion of the Urewera was intended to punish Tūhoe for supporting Te Kooti Rikirangi, whose ‘rebel’ force it had sheltered after its defeat at Ngatapa, inland from Poverty Bay, in January. Read more...
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Frederick Chapman
Frederick Chapman was a lawyer and ethnologist who served as a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
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Main image: Rua Kēnana, resisting police
Charged with sedition and several other crimes Rua Kēnana was convicted only of resisting police, for which he was sentenced to one year in prison and 18 months’ reformative detention
