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… Ranginui Walker was a highly influential writer, public … among 14 siblings who were members of two Whakatōhea hapū, Ngāti Patumoana and Ngāti Ruatākena. Walker had no contact with his biological … Walker, Ranginui Joseph Isaac …
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… Ngāti Ranginui Ngāti Ranginui now occupy the shores of Tauranga Moana as well as …
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Part of story: Tauranga Moana
… the Kaimai Ranges and back to Bowentown. Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāti Pūkenga are the Māori tribes of this district, while …
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Part of story: Tauranga Moana
… of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, Ngāi Tai, Te Whakatōhea, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, and some of the tribes of the Te Arawa …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… Hakaraia, and an endowment fund in his name. Ngāti Ranginui’s treaty settlement, valued at approximately $38 … land of cultural and spiritual significance to Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui. Tapuika, a tribe closely related to Waitaha, …
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Part of story: Tauranga Moana
… to the Waiapu River, and then south to Tūranganui. The Ngāti Ruapani, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki and Te … On Maunga Tawa he built a pā, planted flax and left his son Ranginui, who became the ancestor of Ngāti Ranginui. Tamatea rounded East Cape and headed south …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… death by Harry Dansey and understanding oral traditions by Ranginui Walker. Activist publications In the early 1980s a … included Kawharu, Waerete Norman, Tipene O’Regan, Ranginui Walker, Mason Durie and Bruce Biggs . In 1990, 150 … have included Tahu Pōtiki (Ngāi Tahu), Malcolm Mulholland (Ngāti Kahungunu) and Peter Moeahu. …
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… Te Mete Raukawa of Ngāti Hangarau, a section of Ngāti Ranginui, was born at Bethlehem, Tauranga, probably in …
Type: Biography
… regional locations Bay of Plenty: 5,304 Auckland: 2,616 Ngāti Pūkenga 1991 census: 576 2001 census: 1,137 2006 … locations Bay of Plenty: 921 Auckland: 465 Waikato: 321 Ngāti Ranginui 1991 census: 4,476 2001 census: 6,120 2006 census: …
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Part of story: Tauranga Moana
… Ngāti Raukawa have two traditional homelands. The first, in … centres on Maungatautari, the ancestral mountain of Ngāti Raukawa. Many important ancestral sites – birthplaces, … in southern Waikato is likened to a meeting house. Ko Ranginui te tuanui Ko Papatuanuku te papa Ko te poutūārongo …
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Part of story: Ngāti Raukawa
… Origin of the celestial bodies According to Māori myth, Ranginui played a pivotal role in the birth of the sun, … (the family of light). One version told by Hāmiora Pio of Ngāti Awa is that Tangotango (blackness of the heavenly … offspring and placed them in their abodes in the sky. A Ngāti Kahungunu version of this tradition says that Kewa, …
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Part of story: Ranginui – the sky
… Tangaroa is the son of Papatūānuku, the earth mother, and Ranginui, the sky father. He is one of the 70 children who, … Tangaroa is the husband of Papatūānuku and a competitor of Ranginui. The following account was dictated to Sir Donald McLean by Hūkiki Te Ahukaramū of the Ngāti Raukawa tribe, in 1856: Ka moe (a) Rangi i a …
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Part of story: Tangaroa – the sea
… Mt Taranaki. Genealogical recitations usually culminate in Ranginui and Papatūānuku (the sky father and earth mother), … to be. Te Ahukaramū’s versions Te Ahukaramū, a 19th-century Ngāti Raukawa chief, gave two different whakapapa involving … The immensity, the endurance Sky father and Earth mother. Ranginui and Papatūānuku In the creation of the world …
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Part of story: Whakapapa – genealogy
… end of Lake Rotoiti. Her father was Te Nia, a chief of Ngāti Pikiao ; her mother, Rangiāwhao, a woman of high rank, was of Ngāti Pūkenga, Waitaha-a-Hei and Ngāti Ranginui. Rāhera's inherited rank meant that her marriage …
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… Awanuiarangi and Tūhoe-pōtiki became the ancestors of Ngāti Awa and Ngāi Tūhoe. Muriwai became an important … Tākitimu was captained by Tamatea, great-grandfather of Ranginui, the founding ancestor of Ngāti Ranginui in Tauranga. Te Paepae-ki-Rarotonga , under …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… The father of Te Waharoa was Tangimoana of Ngāti Hauā. His mother was Te Kahurangi. The brother of … mother, was sacked by a party of Te Arawa, led by Pango of Ngāti Whakaue. Pango took Te Waharoa to the Rotorua … the Tauranga district, occupied by Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngāti Ranginui. With these people Te Waharoa maintained military …
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… Ranginui and Papatūānuku In the Māori creation tradition of … upon tapu. The Takitimu canoe, from which the people of Ngāti Kahungunu are descended, was said to be so tapu that … came to visit a Waikato chief, Kapu-manawa-whiti (Ngāti Raukawa and Ngāti Maniapoto). Guests usually visited …
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Part of story: Māori feasts and ceremonial eating – hākari
… left under a shadow of misunderstanding. Wrongly believing Ngāti Kahu had stolen the ship’s boat, he burned whare and kidnapped a chief, Ranginui. When de Surville sailed for Peru, he took Ranginui … with him. The chief died of scurvy during the voyage. Ngāti Wiwi Some Māori are believed to have referred to early …
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Part of story: French
… to impede the flow of arms and men of Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngāti Ranginui to the Waikato. Upon hearing that British troops …
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Part of story: New Zealand Wars
… 0.5% New Zealand: 1.2% Principal tribes and sub-tribes Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Te Arawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Manawa, Ngāti …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region