Te Kahu-o-te-rangi

He was the leader of an expedition that successfully took revenge on Te Whānau-ā-Apanui for earlier attacks, but in this fight he was outshone by his cousin Te-O-Tane, which led to a long conflict between the two chiefs.

[2] His father was Puruaute of Ngāti Rakaipaaka and his mother was Te Matakainga-i-te-tihi,[2] the queen (hei tihi) of the Ngāi Tamaterangi hapū of the Wairoa river valley.

Only descendants of these two men were traditionally considered to be aristocrats among the Ngāti Kahungunu of the northern Hawke Bay area.

The first village that they encountered did not belong to the people responsible for the death of Kotore, so the war party decided not to attack it.

While they were encamped outside the village, the local tohunga (priest) had a dream that one of the men in the war party would "make the mat of Apanui wet with blood."

Te-O-Tane and his men pretended to join this retreat, but then suddenly turned around and attacked the pursuers, killing them all.

[8] Te Wainohu's nephews decided to attack Te-O-Tane at Papohue, but were defeated[9] When they learnt that Te-O-Tane and his men were having a feast at the pā of Hinekakahoa-o-te-rangi and Te Kāwiti, the founder of Ngāti Kurupakiaka, they decided to attack.

Their mother, Te Whewhera was furious that they had decided to do this, since Te-O-Tane was her brother-in-law; she went to Manukanui and warned her brother Moewhare, saying "they will not respect my breasts now hanging, so they should fall.

[13] After the battle of Te Matenga-pūrangi, Te-O-Tane's brother-in-law and spear-bearer, Taiwhakawhuka, took two young women prisoner.

Te Wainohu led a war party to Waitahora on a night when Taiwhakahuka was on sentry-duty.

Eight men with taiaha surrounded Te-O-Tane's house, but he escaped and fled across the river to his brother's village, Makeakea.

[15] This referred to a circle the colour of a rainbow reflected on the surface of the sea, that Te-O-Tane used to watch for from Papohue and that he considered his personal omen of victory.

As he walked from the Waiau River, Te Kahu-o-te-rangi marked all the tawai trees all the way along the boundary with his axe.

This was one of the contributing factors to an 1820 invasion of Heretaunga by Tuwharetoa, Ngati Raukawa, and Waikato during the Musket Wars, which culminated in a decisive victory at Iho o Te Rei.