Rua Kenana was one of many Maori prophetic leaders of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He called himself Te Mihaia Hou, the New Messiah, and was the leader of a section of the Tuhoe at a time when their land was threatened by possible prospecting and milling. Returning to the heart of the Urewera, he established a community at Maungapohatu. This book is a history of Rua and his people, of the destruction of their community by the government during the First World War, and of the struggle to start all over again. Rua identified himself and was seen by many as the man whose leadership had been foretold by the earlier prophet Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki. The recollections of the Tuhoe people form a central part of this account, which records also the impressions and photographs of many outsiders who journeyed to the community. The story is constructed around a unique collection of over 200 photographs.