Ngāpuhi

Ngāpuhi is a Māori iwi of New Zealand's Northland, centred on Hokianga, the Bay of Islands and Whangārei. Its chief Hongi Hika emerged as a war leader after Ngāpuhi were defeated by Ngāti Whātua at Moremonui in 1808.

Hongi encouraged European settlement and cultivated ties with missionaries to acquire muskets. In the early 19th-century Musket Wars, he used these weapons in campaigns across northern New Zealand; he was wounded at Hokianga in 1827 and died at Whangaroa in 1828.