Apihai Te Kawau

Apihai Te Kawau (ya mutu Nuwamban shekarar 1869) ya kasance Babban shugaban Ngāti Whātua Māori iwi (ƙabilar) na Auckland (), New Zealand a karni na 19. 

Mahaifin Te Kawau shi ne Tarahawaiki kuma kakansa shi ne Tūperiri, babban shugaban Te Taoū hapū (ƙabilar) na Ngāti Whātua wanda ya mamaye Tāmaki isthmus a cikin shekarun 1740, ya ci Wai-o-Hua . Mahaifiyar Te Kawau ita ce Mokorua, wacce ta fito ne daga Wai-o-Hua .  An haifi Te Kawau a Ihumātao, kusa da Tashar jiragen ruwa ta Manukau . 

An yi tunanin Te Kawau ya yi yaƙi da Ngāpuhi iwi a nasarar Ngāti Whātua na Yaƙin Moremonui a cikin shekarar 1807 ko 1808. Daga nan sai ya taimaka wajen jagorantar tafiyar yaki ta mil 1,000 ta Ngāti Whātua da Ngāti Maniapoto da aka sani da  (kewaye da ƙasar) daga shekarar 1821 zuwa 1822. Bayan babban cin nasara ga Ngāpuhi a Te Ika-a-ranga-nui a 1825, Te Kawau da mutanensa sun bar Tāmaki isthmus (wurin Auckland na gaba) na shekaru da yawa.

A ranar 20 ga Maris ɗin shekarar 1840 a yankin Manukau Harbour inda Ngāti Whātua ya yi noma, Te Kawau ya sanya hannu kan Te Tiriti ko Waitangi (fassarar te reo Māori na Yarjejeniyar Waitangi).  Ngāti Whātua ya nemi kariya ta Burtaniya daga Ngāpuhi da kuma dangantaka da Crown da Coci. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan sanya hannu kan Yarjejeniyar, Te Kawau ya yi tukuya (kyautar dabarun) na kadada 3,500 (1,400) na ƙasa a Tashar jiragen ruwa ta Waitematā don sabon babban birnin Auckland.

Te Kawau yana da alaƙa da Church Mission Society (CMS) tun lokacin da ya sadu da Samuel Marsden a shekarar 1820, kuma maza biyu sun zama abokai. A cikin shekarun 1840, wani lokaci bayan ya zama Kirista, Bishop George Selwyn ya yi masa baftisma a ɗakin sujada kusa da Ōrākei Pā kuma an ba shi sunan baftisma na Āpihai, Māori ga jarumin Littafi Mai-Tsarki Abishai . 

A cikin shekarun 1850 Te Kawau ya kasance mai tantancewa da ke da hannu tare da warware rikice-rikice tsakanin Māori a Auckland. An san shi a matsayin mutum mai zaman lafiya, ya yi magana a bainar jama'a game da sayar da ƙasa, amma bai iya dakatar da korar Gwamna George Grey da kwace shi ba. A shekara ta 1868 ya sami taken zuwa kadada 700 na karshe na ƙasar Ngāti Whātua a Ōrākei don iwi..

Te Kawau kawun Paora Tūhaere ne, wanda ya gaji shi a matsayin shugaban Ngāti Whātua .

A cikin shekarar 2018 Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei da tashar jiragen ruwa na Auckland sun kirkiro abin tunawa ga Te Kawau don kyautar ƙasar da ya bayar ga Gwamna Hobson da kuma tunawa da gudummawarsa ga Auckland, yayin da suke nuna wurin da aka kafa birnin a ranar 18 ga Satumban shekarar 1840 . 

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