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Te Rangihiwinui, also known as Taitoko and later as Te Keepa, or Major Kemp, is thought to have been born in the first half of the 1820s at Tuwhakatupua, on the Manawatu River, near Opiki. His mother was Rere-o-maki, the sister of Ngati Ruaka leader Te Anaua.
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I whānau a Te Rangihiwinui i ngā tau tīmatanga pea o te tekau tau mai i 1820, i Tūwhakatupua, i Ōpiki, kei te awa o Manawatū; arā atu anō ōna īngoa, ko Taitoko, ā, nō muri nei, ko Te Keepa me Meiha Kemp. Ko tana whaea ko Rere-ō-maki, he tuahine nō Te Ānaua rangatira o Ngāti Ruakā. Ko ōna tino hapū, ko Ngāti Ruakā, me Ngāti Tūpoho, karangatanga hapū o Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi. Ko te whaea o Rere-ō-maki nō Te Arawa. Ko te matua o Te Keepa, ko Māhuera Paki Tanguru-o-te-rangi, he rangatira nui nō roto o Mua-ūpoko. E kōrerotia ana tokotoru ngā wāhine a Te Rangihiwinui. Ko te wahine matua, ko Mākere, arā, ko Mākareta, he huānga tata tonu ki a ia. E ora tonu ana tana wahine tuatoru a Te Mata Kaihoe i te wā i mate ai ia.
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