Talk:Tūhawaiki

Nickname, Bloody Jack
Hi EvStarshine, I noticed you added a reference for Bloody Jack getting his nickname by association with red coats, but I can’t find mention of the nickname in that book. Can you just point me to a page number to help me out? — HTGS (talk) 09:17, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

Kia ora HTGS, "Then there's Tuhawaiki. People reckon he was called Bloody Jack because he was blood-thirsty or because he swore. But they had redcoats, the soldiers, over there in Australia, drilling and that, so Tuhawaiki got hold of a whole lot of red coats and brought them back and was drilling his own people in them. That's the reason for the name." Page 137, section A Friend of the Land Courts. There's also accounts at Hocken of him wearing the red coats when chasing te Rauparaha as well as the signing and while running his whaling crew. However I've used Cormack as the citation as it's what I've got on hand. Plenty oral history of his red coat too. Hope that helps and thank you. EvStarshine (talk) 20:55, 29 September 2021 (UTC).