Maihi Paraone Kawiti

Maihi Paraone Kawiti (1807-21 Mayu 1889) ya kasance shugaban kabilar New Zealand .  Daga zuriyar Māori, ya bayyana tare da Ngāti Hine hapū na Ngāpuhi iwi. An kuma haife shi a Waiomio, Northland, New Zealand a cikin 1807. Mahaifinsa shi ne Te Ruki Kawiti. Daya daga cikin 'ya'yansa maza shi ne Kirihi Te Riri Maihi Kawiti .

Kafin ya gaji mahaifinsa a matsayin shugaban Ngāti Hine hapū, Maihi Paraone malamin mishan ne a Mangakahia; [1] kasance mai goyon bayan te ture (doka) da te whakapona (bishara).

 Jagorancin Ngāti Hine hapū 
A matsayinsa na shugaban Ngāti Hine hapū, wakilai sun zo ga Maihi Paraone Kawiti daga Taranaki da Waikato iwi suna neman Ngāpuhi su shiga cikin Māori King Movement; amsar daga Maihi Paraona Kawiti ita ce Ngāpuhi ba shi da sha'awar "Māori Kīngi" kamar yadda "Kuini Wikitoria" shine "Kingi". Rogers, Lawrence M., (1973) Te Wiremu: A Biography of Henry Williams, Pegasus Press, pp. 296-7

Maihi Paraone Kawiti ta shirya a kafa tutar ta biyar a Kororāreka a shafin da aka yanke tutar sau da yawa a lokacin Flagstaff War; wannan ya faru a watan Janairun shekarar 1858, tare da sunan tutar Whakakotahitanga, "yana daya tare da Sarauniya". A matsayin karin aiki na alama, an zabi mayakan Ngāpuhi 400 da ke cikin shirya da kuma gina tutar daga sojojin 'yan tawaye' na Te Ruki Kawiti da Hōne Heke - wato, Ngāpuhi daga hapū na Tāmati Wāka Nene (wanda ya yi yaki a matsayin abokan sojojin Burtaniya a lokacin Flagstaff War) sun lura, amma ba su shiga cikin gina tutar ta biyar ba. Maihi Paraone Kawiti ne ya gabatar da maido da tutar a matsayin aikin son rai daga bangaren Ngāpuhi wanda ya yanke shi a 1845, kuma ba za su ba da damar wani ya ba da taimako a cikin wannan aikin ba.

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