"Ko Te Rautakitahi o T¿±hoe ki Orkau, he k¿rero whakahirahira n T William Te Rangiua Poú Temara i te reo Mori m¿ t T¿±hoe whai whi ki te pae o te riri ki ¿rkau i ng pakanga o Aotearoa. He mea tuhi te k¿rero nei i te reo Mori, , e ai ki ng k¿rero tuku iho, ka ptai a T Pou i ng ptai uaua m¿ ng tne me ng whine i haere ki te tautoko i a Ngti Maniapoto i te pakanga e k±ia nei ko Orkau. Ko wai m rtau? He aha rtau i haere ai? He aha t rtau mahi i reira? He aha hoki te hononga ki a Ngti Maniapoto?Koia nei, ko ng whakaaro o T Pou, otir ko ng whakaaro o te tangata n¿ Ruathuna, te whi n¿ reira te nuinga o ng uri o T¿±hoe i whai whi ai ki te pakanga ki ¿rkau, he k¿rero tuku iho n ¿na koroua me ¿na kuia i a ia e tipu ake ana. E k¿rero ana ia m¿ te taenga atu o Rewi Maniapoto ki Ruathuna i te tau 1862 me te tau 1864 ki te tono ki a T¿±hoe mn e rnei ka whai whi rtau ki te whina i a Ngti Maniapoto me te K±ngitanga. Ka k¿rerohia ng toa, ng whine, me ng tamariki i haere, ktahi ka k¿rerohia te hua o te mana me te rongo o te hunga o T¿±hoe i te hokinga atu i muri mai i te haukerekerehia o rtau i Orkau. Kei roto hoki i te pukapuka nei ng ttai whakapapa o te hunga o T¿±hoe i haere ai ki Orkau. Kua whakataurite a T Pou i na k¿rero ki ng k¿rero a tahi o te hunga kaituhi Pkeh pnei i a Elsdon Best rtau ko Judith Binney, ko Vincent ÓMalley"--Publisher information."Te Rautakitahi o T¿±hoe ki Orkau is an account of T¿±hoe involvement in the battle of Orkau in the New Zealand wars by Sir William Te Rangiua Pou Temara.
Written in te reo Mori and based on oral sources, T Pou asks the big questions about the T¿±hoe men and women who went to fight with Ngti Maniapoto at Orkau. Who were they? Why did they go and what did they do there? What was the nature of their alliance with Ngti Maniapoto? T Pou gives this account as a man from Ruathuna, where most of the T¿±hoe who went to Orkau came from, through the stories told to him by his grandfather, great-grandmother and other kuia and koroua when he was young. He tells the story of Rewi Maniapoto visiting T¿±hoe at Ruathuna in 1862 and 1864 to ask if T¿±hoe would become involved in the war to help Ngti Maniapoto and the King movement. He recounts the warriors, women and children who went, and then tells what happened to their authority and reputation in T¿±hoe after the party returned, defeated, from Orkau. The book includes significant T¿±hoe whakapapa for those who went to Orkau. T Pou compares his account of events to those of Pkeh writers like Elsdon Best, Judith Binney and Vincent ÓMalley"--Publisher information.