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… south-east of Tapuaeharuru (Taupō). His descent was from Ngāti Hineuru, and from Ngāti Kurapoto and Ngāti Maruwahine, now regarded as hapu of … Pohokura block. One account says that he had two sons, Te Ranginui and Pāoro, and that his widow, whose name is …
Type: Biography
… gods and that of other Polynesian gods. Most Māori had Ranginui (the sky father) and Papatūānuku (the earth mother) … appears in the genealogies of most tribes; however, only Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu and other East Coast and some Bay of Plenty …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whakapapa – genealogy
… called Tū-te-wanawana (reptiles). After the separation of Ranginui (sky) and Papatūānuku (earth), Tangaroa was forced … top as a relish.’ Beasts on board An ancestral canoe of the Ngāti Porou tribe, the Māngārara , was said to have brought …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngārara – reptiles
… food stores and nets, and a canoe. He also took prisoner a Ngāti Kahu leader, Ranginui, who had been particularly hospitable towards some … deserted, and and another in the Solomon Islands. As for Ranginui, he died of scurvy at sea on 24 March 1770. He is …
Type: Biography
… Pene Taka was a leader of Ngāti Rangi hapū of Ngāti Ranginui iwi at Tauranga, from the 1850s to his death …
Type: Biography
… of trade encouraged peacemaking – for instance between Ngāti Awa and Ngāi Tūhoe in 1834, and between Ngāi Te Rangi … the activity of the prophetic movement Pai Mārire drew Ngāti Awa and Te Whakatōhea tribes into conflict with the … four months later. Subsequent confiscations deprived Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Awa, Te Whakatōhea and Ngāi …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… such as Ainsley Gardiner (Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Awa) and Chelsea Winstanley (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi) have been involved in a number of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Feature film
… storm, de Surville took reprisals which included kidnapping Ranginui, a Ngāti Kahu rangatira. This incident has marred his … as Ngāpuhi tribal groups were gradually displacing the Ngāti Pou inhabitants. The French presence destabilised the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: European discovery of New Zealand
… Kaimai Ranges; in May and June they were at Rangitoto and Ranginui near Te Kūiti; and in July and August (late winter) … from tarata and taramea were also added. Parapara The Ngāti Porou tribe extracted oil from the seeds of parapara …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te ngahere – forest lore
… have been used by the god Tāne to cut the sinews that bound Ranginui (the sky) and Papatūānuku (the earth). It is said … greatly afraid). Following this, Ngā Rauru and some of the Ngāti Apa tribe assembled at dawn where two priests chanted …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Pounamu – jade or greenstone
… A significant creation story concerns Rangi and Papa. Ranginui (sky father) and Papatūānuku (earth mother) were … John White recorded the term ‘io’ in an account of Ngāti Ruanui traditions. The manuscript includes … Kauwaeraro. In the 20th century Io was an accepted part of Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāpuhi traditions. Those who think that …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori
… was often close consultation with whānau. The biography of Ngāti Porou war hero Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngārimu was written … Hinemoa Ruataupare Awatere, and published in 2003. Ranginui Walker’s biography of Sir Apirana Ngata appeared in … biography she had written for the DNZB . In the same year, Ranginui Walker published Pakariki Harrison, the story of a …
Type: Story Page
… Te Ruakawhena Kohu, both of Ngāi Tamarāwaho, a hapū of Ngāti Ranginui . The springs at Ngāhina pā were a tapu ancestral … education. Her mother, Hikuwai Kohu, was the daughter of Ngāti Ranginui chief Parāone Koikoi, who had been brought …
Type: Biography
… and the courts. Becoming bicultural Writer and academic Ranginui Walker (Whakatōhea) wrote, ‘To survive in the … made in the 1980s. Human rights lawyer Moana Jackson (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Porou) argued for a more substantial form of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Biculturalism
… also known as Henry Stowell (Ngāpuhi), Hoani Tunuiārangi (Ngāti Kahungunu), Timi Waata Rimini, Tutu Tamari, Te Kāhui … them as tribal history. In 1944 Tiaki Mitchell wrote about Ngāti Kahungunu in his book Takitimu . In the same year … East Coast, Horout a , was published posthumously in 1999. Ranginui Walker’s Ōpō tiki-mai- tawhiti : capital of …
Type: Story Page
… from a version given by Hūkiki Te Ahukaramū, a 19th-century Ngāti Raukawa chief: Te Pō (night, darkness) Te Ata (dawn) … a description of darkness and nothingness, out of which Ranginui, the sky father, and Papatūānuku, the earth mother, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori creation traditions
… grandmother was Erihāpeti Kaumoana of Pirirākau hapū of Ngāti Ranginui , and his maternal grandmother was Ruawahine from … Wynyard Garlick, whose mother, Maria Tapsell, was of Ngāti Whakaue . Twin boys, the sons of Mere's brother, were …
Type: Biography
… Tennant, formerly Professor of History, Massey University Ranginui Walker, Emeritus Professor of Māori, University of … Victoria University of Wellington Dr Maria Bargh (Te Arawa, Ngāti Kearoa, Ngāti Tuara, Ngāti Awa), Lecturer, Te Kawa a Māori – School …
Type: Basic page
… Mountains in the Māori world Rising towards the realms of Ranginui the Sky Father, remote from human settlement, … Te Heuheu, paramount chief of the central North Island Ngāti Tūwharetoa tribe, gifted the sacred Tongariro mountain …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Mountains
… role of tapu and noa (common). Following the separation of Ranginui (the sky father) and Papatūānuku (the earth mother) … whale, which he rode to shore and safety. Earned leadership Ngāti Toarangatira leader Te Rauparaha was not the most …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Tūranga i te hapori – status in Māori society