Early Adulthood
By 1839 he was back with his own people. In 1849 he married Harata te Ihi.
During the Invasion of the Waikato a large party of Ngati Porou tried to join the King Movement but were prevented by Te Arawa in the Battle of the Lake. It is not clear where Ropata's sympathies lay at that time.
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