Aperahama Taonui

Aperahama Taonui (died 23 September 1882) was a New Zealand tribal leader, prophet, historian, teacher and assessor. He was a leader of the Te Popoto hapū of the Ngāpuhi iwi. He was born in Whangaroa, Northland, probably in the 1810s. His father was Makoare Te Taonui.{{DNZB|title=Aperahama Taonui|first= Judith|last= Binney|id=2t7|accessdate=1 December 2011}}

The Flagstaff War

Aperahama Taonui and his father supported Tāmati Wāka Nene in opposing Hōne Heke and Te Ruki Kawiti in the Flagstaff War (1845–46).{{cite book |last1= Cowan |first1= James|title= The New Zealand Wars: a history of the Maori campaigns and the pioneering period, Volume I: 1845–1864 |url= http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cow01NewZ-c6.html|year= 1922 |publisher= R.E. Owen |location= Wellington |page=39 |chapter= Chapter 6: The Fighting at Omapere }}

Aperahama Taonui received a bullet wound, probably in April 1845, in the early fighting near Okaihau. He was sent to Auckland to recuperate and there became friendly with Governor George Grey, who awarded Aperahama Taonui a government pension. His father, Makoare Te Taonui, led his warriors in the capture of Heke's pā at Te Ahuahu, which was followed by Nene's defeat of Heke in the Battle of Te Ahuahu on 12 June 1845 at Pukenui.{{cite web| title = Puketutu and Te Ahuahu - Northern War| date =3 April 2009|url= http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/northern-war/puketutu|publisher=Ministry for Culture and Heritage - NZ History online | access-date=28 November 2013}}{{cite book |last1= Raugh |first1= Harold E. |title=The Victorians at war, 1815-1914: an encyclopedia of British military history |year= 2004 |publisher= ABC-CLIO |isbn=1-57607-925-2|pages=225–226}}

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Category:1882 deaths

Category:New Zealand Māori religious leaders

Category:People from the Northland Region

Category:19th-century New Zealand historians

Category:Ngāpuhi people

Category:Year of birth missing

Category:Flagstaff War