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… son of Whatonga, Tara became the eponymous ancestor of the Ngati Tara tribe which was the first to settle permanently …
… which embraced most of the other tribes. Belonging to the Ngati Teata hapu, Kaihau was educated at Archdeacon …
… settled in the area, and their tribes – the Ngai Tara and Ngati Ira – remained in possession until the 1820s when they were replaced by Te Rauparaha's Ngati Toa. Following this invasion European whalers and …
… south-east of the town, near Waiteti (5 miles south), at Hangatiki (8 miles north), and elsewhere. There is a cement … to the Mangaokewa Valley in 1872 for sanctuary with the Ngati Maniapoto. In the late 1870s Reihana te Huatare Wahanui and other Ngati Maniapoto leaders, despite the opposition of Tawhiao, …
… Reihana Te Huatare, and Reihana Whakahoehoe ( c . 1827–97). Ngati Maniapoto chief. A new biography of Wahanui Huatare … and was the son of Wahanui Huatare, a highborn chief of the Ngati Maniapoto tribe. He was originally intended for the … figure in the “King's” counsels. At Whataroa, beyond Hangatiki, Wahanui organised his own tribal administration on …
… Porirua and held him hostage for the good behaviour of the Ngati Toa tribe. The rebellion collapsed. Te Rangihaeata … detachment of regulars and volunteers clashed with the Ngati Ruanuis near the Waireka Stream (28 March). … As the British grew cautious, the Maoris grew rash. A Ngati Maniapoto force had fought at Puketakauere and their …
… was born about 1830 near Gisborne. He was a member of the Ngati Maru hapu of the Rongowhakaata subtribe of Ngati Porou, his father being Hone Rangipatahi, and his … attacks against the East Coast tribes. In 1871 the Ngati Porou, under Ropata, systematically searched the Te …
… were mainly European majority areas. Tribes such as Ngati Porou and Tuhoe are far superior as far as purity of …
… fell into the hands of a Maori of importance in the Ngati Ruanui tribe, Tito Te Hanataua. Tito took the deserter … Hawera. This Hauhau stronghold was the headquarters of the Ngati Ruanui and Nga Rauru belligerents. It was from Te … was far from easy. He acquired a third wife, a good-looking Ngati Ruanui girl of about 18. He finally came out of …
… which specialised in carving, as, for instance, the Ngati Tarawhai hapu of the Arawa tribe. Carving was a tapu …