E hāere ana mātou ki whēa, Where do we go from here?.

Well now that I have established a foundation of where to go from it's a matter of who Ahomōana and Te Kāpu are.

I used Wētere to find Te Kapu and Te Aho but how do I go further. This is where it took a long time. So I went back over everything that I had, to try and find clues of where my next move was. my only concrete find was the Minute books of  the land court. This is when I scoured the minute books there were 3 of them that I had to look through, Otorohanga,  Aotea as well as Mercer books to find clues of whakapapa. Perhaps it was that I was meant to read it again. I went back to the first find of mine which had our whakapapa and although I didn't see it the first time I sure has hell noticed it this time that Te ahomoana was also known as Te Keha. so using this I searced online to see if there was anything I could find on Te keha and not a lot was coming forward because it was the middle name of a lot of people and the surname of many too. a friend told me that a lot of early māori dealings ended up in newspapers as well so I thought that I would give it a try and went to the website past papers and searched Te keha.
and was surprised I found hundreds of stories about him and I sat and read through a lot of them so that I could get a sense of who he was and what he was about.
I found an article from the Taranaki press that Te Keha went to Sydney in 1829 on board the Adventurer a fishing vessel to buy guns for war. and so inflatuated were the people of Sydney that any Chief that visited from NZ often stayed with the governor of New South Wales as he made it a point to look after them because there was money to be made in NZ with a lot of our resources. Timber, Gum and hectares of land and back in those days you could buy them cheap with blankets and gun powder. But only there to buy guns Te Keha came home just to fight his war against Taranaki not knowing that at the time Taranaki people had purchased canons so if there going to be a war then Taranaki wasn't going down without a fight. when that war happened Taranaki caused Te Keha and other chiefs to flee because they were dropping like flies when Taranaki used their canons.I could almost imagine them saying 'He aha koe e kore ai e hoko nga pū nui pēra i a rātou?. "Why didn't you buy big guns like them?" As canons took down heaps in one shot.

But more importantly I searched for something about his family and it come in an article from the Waikato times 13th May 1887 called Native Land court "Alexandria" Cambridge. The article was about a block of land called Manuaitu in Aotea Kāwhia.which was mainly owned by Ngati Whakamarurangi tribes. Nero Te Awataia says that manuaitu was theirs as well by conquest because his tūpuna slaughtered people for the pā ownership. Now Manuaitu is an ancient pa which was considered prime real estate because from it you could see all around it if enemies came. on it's doorstep was seafood galore from Kāwhia and any type of fish from the surrounding sea and backed by lust forests if you wanted to hunt for food there. the pa was built  around 1350  and has been fought over ever since.  It is the birth place of Whatihua and Turongo descendants of Hōturoa Captain of the Tainui canoe and also held an ancient ūrupa. In the 1940s the area was confiscated by the government under the public works act to be used as a fortress during the second world war for threat of enemy planes and once the war was over the government sold the land to be used as a golf course. In the 1970's Whāea Tuāiwa Rickard occupied the land and demanded that the government get their golf balls off our tupuna and give the land back. her fight was seen as silly by a lot of the people at the time and often she stood alone in this fight and was even arrested but in the end in 1978 she won . and the land was returned to the decendants of those hapu who occupied it first. and the law was changed that if any land was taken for the public works act it had to be returned after it was no longer needed.

Te whaea rangatira a Tuaiwa Hautai Rickard "Eva"

Further on in this article it states that Muriwhenua held part of this land because it was gifted to him by his ancestors. but he was driven from the land by some tribes and other claimants were Ngati Naho  their claim was upheld they descend for Hotūroa and they were given back tittle of this block and it was claimed by a man named Heruika he was gifted a section of land from Te Keha's wives Paretaheke and Whāriki.. I felt like I had found again what I needed to find.

This is the article in the link below.
 http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WT18870531.2.33&srpos=14&e=-------10--11----0Manuaitu--

But now I had a new names to search Paretaheke and Whariki who were they?
I searched around the archives again to see if I could find out more about them. I wondered if they could be Te Kapu and Ramarihi. the wives mentioned in the Minute books. so using the computer at the University I searched their database to see if the name Paretaheke or Whariki came up. and the results come back as that these names were mentioned in the Waikato Committee Report 1860.
In short that report was about a case the government was bringing against the Kingitanga to establish whether it was deliberately trying to defy the government and incite an uprising. after all this was 17 years after 100's of Chiefs gave authority to Pakeha to create government under the Treaty of Waitangi.  Which Potatau on behalf of Tainui did not sign. The government needed to make passage through the Waikato but when Tainui refused to sign the Treaty the only step they had was to say that Tainui was in breach of the laws of the land and tried to get through by force. after a few years of bickering and court cases with kingites they still didn't have a case on the kingitanga. further more Tawhiao had created the boundaries of Tainui so that they couldn't pass or claim without permission.
"Mōkau ki runga, Tāmaki ki raro, Mangatoatao ki waenganui Pare Waikato Pare Hauraki Te Kaokaoroa o patetere" Translation .
 Mokau above, Auckland below, Mangatoatao at its centre from the mouth of the Waikato river to all of Hauraki. These are the boundaries.
But the government persisted and this is what led to the war at Rangiriri that I mentioned earlier.