Hoani Nahe

Hoani Nahe (c. 1833 – 18 May 1894) was a Māori historian and author, and a member of the House of Representatives from 1876 to 1879.

His life work, which he began in the late 1850s, was recording Māori history and tradition, particularly of Tainui and Hauraki.

He was on a committee at Thames whose aim was to support the Māori newspaper Te Wananga, published in Hawke's Bay.

He contracted a cold following long discussions outdoors, then a lung inflammation, and died at the home of his cousin Wīrope Hōterini Taipari near Thames on 18 May 1894.

[1] Percy Smith, editor of the Journal of the Polynesian Society, published some of Nahe's work posthumously.