Tuarae belonged to Waikato but her descendants are among the Ngāti Haua who live in the Taumarunui district.
Biographical sources
- Nga Moteatea: He Maramara Rere No Nga Waka Maha: The Songs: Scattered Pieces From Many Canoe Areas. Comp. A.T. Ngata. Trans. Pei Te Hurinui. Pt. 2. Wellington, N.Z.: Published for the Polynesian Soc. by A.H. & A.W.Reed, 1961. 131.
Traditional
- "An Historical Narrative Concerning The Conquest Of Kaipara And Tamaki by Ngāti-Whatua/He Tatau-Kōrero Mo Te Raupatutanga O Kaipara Me Tamaki I A Ngāti-Whatua." Journal of the Polynesian Society 32.128 (Dec. 1923): 229-237.
- The editorial notes accompanying this narrative state that this is one of several narratives by ‘the late Paora Tuhaere’. The editor continues ‘[a]nother much longer and detailed "History of Ngāti-Whatu," by Paora, was deposited in the Auckland Public Library, and has been translated by me. The late Mr Percy Smith apparently had access to still another of Paora’s manuscript histories, for he gave abstracts from one (in his history of the "Peopling of the North") which is neither of the above.’ The history records the warfare of the Ngāti Whatua, Te Taou, Te Uri-o-hau, and Nga Ririki tribes. The Māori text is followed by notes and Tuhaere’s whakapapa.
- "He Waiata Whakaoriori/A Lullaby Song." Nga Moteatea: He Maramara Rere No Nga Waka Maha: The Songs: Scattered Pieces From Many Canoe Areas. Comp. A.T.Ngata. Trans. Pei Te Hurinui. Pt. 2.Wellington, N.Z.: Published for the Polynesian Soc. by A.H. & A.W.Reed, 1961. 130-133.
- Taylor, C. H. R. A Bibliography of Publications on the New Zealand Māori and the Moriori of the Chatham Islands. Oxford: Clarendon; Oxford UP, 1972. 90.