Tama-i-hara-nui (17?? – 1830/1831) or Tamaiharanui, also known as Te Maiharanui, was a New Zealand MÃÂori chief of NgÃÂi Tahu and its NgÃÂti RakiÃÂmoa hapà «. He was "strong and ruthless" and was a central figure in the 1820s Kai HuÃÂnga ("eat relatives") feud within NgÃÂi Tahu.
Tama-i-hara-nui angered NgÃÂti Toa in about 1828 by letting a group of their chiefs into Kaiapoi pàand then killing them. Te Rauparaha, one of the NgÃÂti Toa chiefs who stayed outside of the pÃÂ, returned to Canterbury with a war party on board the ship Elizabeth in November 1830. The ship anchored off Takapà «neke village in Akaroa Harbour with the war party hidden. Tama-i-hara-nui was enticed on board with his wife and daughter and they were taken prisoner. He was taken to à Âtaki, where the widows of the chiefs who had been killed at Kaiapoi pàtortured him, and he was killed.