Hōne Heke Ngāpua

Hōne Heke Ngāpua (6 June 1869 – 9 February 1909) was a Māori and Liberal Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

Ngāpua is best remembered for his advocacy for Te Kotahitanga, sponsorship of Māori autonomy in Parliament through a Native Rights Bill, and his successful intervention in the Dog Tax War of 1898.

The first was in the Urewera survey trouble of 1895 in which Ngāpua counselled peace and prevented armed conflict from breaking out.

In 1898, Ngāpua hastily returned to his electorate and arrived just in time to defuse a face-off between Māori led by Hōne Riiwi Tōia and Crown forces at the height of the Dog Tax War of 1898.

In the later years of his life Ngāpua was influential in the development of the Young Maori Party through his personal relationships and political collaborations with James Carroll, Ngata, and Peter Buck.