Hekemaru

"...Pāoa was the youngest child of Hekemaru from Te Arawa and Heke-i-te-Rangi of Tainui. Ngāti Pāoa tradition states that the union of Hekemaru and Heke-i-te-Rangi brought all of the ancestral canoes together." (Ngāti Pāoa et al., 2021).

Sources

Aotea Harbour. (n.d). Our people.
https://aotea.maori.nz/our-people

Jones, P. T., & Biggs, B. (1995).
Nga Iwi o Tainui: The Traditional History of the Tainui People/Nga Koorero Tuku Iho o Nga Tuupuna. 163. Auckland University Press.

Kelly, L. G. (1940). Taupiri pa.
The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 49(193).
https://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_49_1940/Volume_49,_N...

Ngāti Pāoa., Trustees of the Ngāti Pāoa Iwi Trust., & The Crown. (2021, March 19). Deed of settlement of historical claims. The Government of New Zealand.
https://www.govt.nz/assets/Documents/OTS/Ngati-Paoa/2021-03-20-N-Pa...

Te Hurinui, P. (1958). Maori Genealogies. The Journal of the Polynesian Society 67(2). 162-165.
https://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_67_1958/Volume_67%2C...