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Tohu Kakahi (c. 1824-1907) was a Maori leader and prophet at Parihaka, who along with Te Whiti o Rongomai organised passive resistance against the occupation of Taranaki in the 1870s in New Zealand. Details of Tohu's early life are unclear but he was born around 1824 in the Te Ati Awa iwi of Taranaki. He was regarded as a teacher and prophet and it is said Tohu confirmed Potatau Te Wherowhero's son Tawhiao as the second Maori King, and was his spiritual adviser. Along with other members of Te Ati Awa, Tohu fought in the Taranaki Wars in the 1860s and was one of the leaders at the attack on the redoubt of Te Morere by a Pai Marire war party. Following this, he joined his relative Te Whiti o Rongomai at Parihaka, south Taranaki in leading passive resistance to confiscation of Maori land. When the Waimate Plain was surveyed in 1879. Maori asserted their land rights by removing survey pegs and by ploughing and fencing across roads and settler claimed areas. Many arrests of the Maori ploughmen were made, but the campaign had wide support by other iwi. In November 1881 the village of Parihaka was occupied by Government troops and Tohu was arrested along with Te Whiti and hundreds of others.
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