Karaitiana Takamoana
New Zealand politician
Intro | New Zealand politician | |
Places | New Zealand | |
is | Politician | |
Work field | Politics | |
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Death | 24 February 1879 |
Karaitiana Takamoana (died 24 February 1879) was a prominent Māori chief of Ngāti Kahungunu, and a New Zealand Member of Parliament for the Eastern Maori electorate. Recognised by many as a founding father of the modern Ngāti Kahungunu iwi, he was a veteran of the Musket Wars and the East Coast campaigns of the New Zealand Wars, including the East Cape War and Te Kooti's War. He was an elder half-brother of Henare Tomoana.
He represented the Eastern Maori electorate from 1871 until 1879, when he died.