1868 Titokowaru resists land confiscation
In 1868, Ngāti Ruanui leader Titokowaru led a strong resistance to land confiscation in south Taranaki. His force, persuading and coercing neighbouring tribes to join in, swept south from the Hawera district, inflicting several heavy defeats on the colonial forces and finally threatening Wanganui itself. In November, for some reason now unclear, Titikowaru's army then largely deserted him, literally overnight, and he became a fugitive, hunted back into the inaccessible upper Waitara area. He was later involved in the Parihaka passive resistance movement.
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