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… Migrating from the North Island’s East Coast, Ngāi Tahu thrived in the South Island. They intermarried with local tribes, and … Ngāi Tahu …
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… The claim to the land For Ngāi Tahu, conquest had never been a preferred means of claiming … During the early period of occupying and settling the South Island, besides deliberately marrying into the earliest … Ngāi Tahu and Waitaha …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… Within a year of the peace settlement with Ngāti Toa, Ngāi Tahu also committed themselves to the Treaty of Waitangi, … and in 1879 Te Maihāroa was forced from the interior of the South Island down to the coast. Pursuing the claim Besides the … The Ngāi Tahu claim …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… first to occupy the Poutini coast (on the West Coast of the South Island). Because of the mountainous passes separating the … a way to the east coast. On finding some men of the Ngāi Tahu tribe building a canoe, she commented on the bluntness … Ngāi Tahu and pounamu …
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Part of story: Pounamu – jade or greenstone
… The southern coast Ngāi Tahu along the Foveaux Strait and Otago … occupied the Cloudy Bay region in the north of the South Island, but Ngāti Toa failed to engage with them, largely … The southern Ngāi Tahu response …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… A South Island toehold Tahupōtiki, from whom Ngāi Tahu take their name, was descended from the legendary … The move south …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… Further intermarriage From Kaiapoi, Ngāi Tahu incorporated the southern sections of Ngāti Māmoe and Waitaha, who already occupied the South Island. The process was again one of small incursions, … Spreading south and west …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… Tribes South Canterbury is in the territory of the Ngāi Tahu people. The lines of earlier South Island iwi (tribes) – Ngāti Mamoe and Waitaha – merged into … Māori in South Canterbury …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… Paparoa National Park On the northern West Coast of the South Island, the 39,037-hectare Paparoa National Park covers the … national parks, the area is significant to the Ngāi Tahu tribe. Aoraki/Mt Cook in particular is revered as an … Western and central South Island parks …
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Part of story: National parks
… north-east of Stewart Island and about 20 kilometres south-east of Bluff. Just over 1,400 hectares in size, the … the early 19th century whaling era as a centre for Ngāi Tahu leader Tūhawaiki, and a Lutheran mission station was … of 36 Māori who arrived from The Neck in 1843. A large ngaio tree still growing in the 2010s was thought to have …
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Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… Bluff 2013 population: 1,794 Bluff (27 km south of Invercargill) is New Zealand’s southernmost town … arrived in the harbour in 1813, they found a Ngāi Tahu settlement on the seaward side of 265-metre Bluff Hill … hinterland. It had two freezing works until 1925. A new island harbour equipped with automatic meat loaders opened …
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Part of story: Southland places
… Ngāti Toa Ngāi Tahu’s tribal domain was seriously threatened from the late … been cast out from their homeland of Kāwhia in the North Island. Under the courageous leadership of Te Rauparaha, … lower end of the North Island. When Ngāti Toa reached the South Island, a new era of Ngāi Tahu history began as the …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… Horomona Pōhio claimed descent from the major lines of Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Māmoe and Waitaha. His hapū were Ngāi Taoka, … Pōhio was born in 1815 at Wainono, in the Waihao region of South Canterbury, near Te Waimatemate (Waimate). He was … who were sent to Murihiku (the southern part of the South Island), to be kept from a possible threat from Te Rauparaha …
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… By the time Ngāi Tahu had arrived, the South Island’s natural phenomena had been classified and …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… Daniel Barrett was born on 27 October 1878 at Riverton, Southland, the fourth of eleven children of Louisa Hunter … Hotel in Wellington, and Kararaina Hinehou, a Ngāi Tahu woman from Kaiapoi. Bill Barrett attended Kaiapoi … of a Te Mākarini Scholarship. On returning to the South Island he worked as a labourer and then as a farmer at …
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… belonged to Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki and Ngāti Moki hapū of Ngāi Tahu, both of them centred on Taumutu, at the southern end of Waihora (Lake Ellesmere). His ancestor, Te … meeting with Captain John Kent of the Mermaid , at Ruapuke Island, in 1823; Taiaroa had been muttonbirding on the east …
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… At the age of five he left Scotland to attend school at Southsea, in England. In 1844 he sailed on the Slains Castle … the purchase of the West Coast from Poutini Ngāi Tahu. Alexander Mackay accompanied his cousin on the … magistrate and commissioner of native reserves in the South Island. He no doubt gained this latter appointment because …
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… for expeditions to gather moa and weka, eels and rats. Ngāi Tahu Canterbury lies within the traditional boundaries of the main South Island iwi (tribe), Ngāi Tahu. Originally from the North …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… the pā of his grandfather Waewae. Waewae was a son of Ngāi Tahu chief Tūrākautahi, the builder of the nearby pā of … during a turbulent period in the Maori history of the South Island. In the eighteenth century Ngāi Tahu from Canterbury …
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… family of the prominent hapū Ngāi Tūāhuriri of Ngāi Tahu. His father was Kāraki. Tiramōrehu was a descendant of … unresolved, Tiramōrehu led a migration of Kaiapoi people south in a flotilla of canoes, to settle near John Hughes's … him 'the best authority on Māori traditions in the South Island.' Until 1868 Tiramōrehu conducted a wharekura …
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