Background
His mother was Ani Pape, the daughter of Te Rahui, a Ngāti Tarawhai leader.
His mother was Ani Pape, the daughter of Te Rahui, a Ngāti Tarawhai leader.
He identified with the Ngāti Tarawhai and Te Arawa iwi. As a young girl, she was captured by Ngāpuhi during an attack on Rotorua in 1823 and taken as a slave to Northland, where she was forced to marry a Waitere. Tene Waitere was born probably in 1853 or 1854 at Mangamuka.
One of Tuhipo"s children was Rangitiaria Dennan, better known as Guide Rangi.