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… Tame Haereroa Parata was born on Ruapuke Island in Foveaux Strait, probably between 1832 and 1838. … of aristocratic descent of Ngāti Huirapa, a hapū of Ngāi Tahu , and of Ngāti Mamoe and Waitaha. An account of the … entered the House of Representatives in 1885 as member for Southern Māori; he held this seat until 1911, and was a …
Type: Biography
… the 1830s or early 1840s. His father was the prominent Ngāi Tahu chief Te Mātenga Taiaroa , of Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki, and … was elected to the House of Representatives as member for Southern Māori. This he saw as a means to fulfil his … 1871 he successfully moved that copies of the South Island land purchase deeds be printed. In August 1872 he …
Type: Biography
… to sisters. More than 40 place names in the northern South Island stem from Kupe’s activities there. The Kurahaupō … and kāinga in the Marlborough Sounds during the 1500s. Ngāi Tahu passed through the sounds and Marlborough during the …
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Part of story: Te Tau Ihu tribes
… Island and was a member of Ngāti Irakehu, a hapū of Ngāi Tahu . His parents were both born in Otago and moved to … and for the next nine years was employed in its Ikaroa and South Island district office in Wellington. During this … Parliament seeking legislation to amend and extend the Ngaitahu Māori Trust. In June 1972 he and the board met the …
Type: Biography
… From Waitaha to Ngāi Tahu Traditionally, the Waitaha people had authority over Murihiku, the southern part of the South Island, and their traditions are … to one writer, ‘in the new play about to start, the Ngaitahu and the whalers soon found themselves dismissed …
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Part of story: Otago region
… region with the trickster demigod Māui, whose waka was the South Island. These names include Te Taumanu-o-te-waka-a-Māui (the … plain. Along the coast south of the Wairau River, Ngāi Tahu made inroads into the territory of Ngāti Māmoe and Ngāi …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… impact on Māori tribal structures, and on tribal economies. South Island By the 1860s ownership of almost the entire South … the Crown bought millions of hectares of land from Ngāi Tahu in a series of nine purchases. In the 1848 Canterbury …
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Part of story: Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy
… taniwha (water monster). While visiting Tūhua (Mayor Island) he saw a beautiful woman, Waitaiki, and seized her. Pursued by her husband, Tamaāhua, Poutini fled to the South Island, but was trapped in the Arahura valley, where … in the early 19th century Ngāti Waewae, a hapū of Ngāi Tahu, claimed ownership of much of the West Coast. They came …
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Part of story: West Coast region
… deed in 1849. They belonged to Ngāi Tūahuriri hapū of Ngāi Tahu . The family lived at Tuahiwi (near Kaiapoi), where the … Land Court agent with practices in both the North and South Islands. Hopere Uru farmed near Kaiapoi. He was chairman of …
Type: Biography
… of commissioner for extinguishing native titles, Middle Island (South Island), with the initial responsibility of setting aside reserves for Ngāi Tahu within the Canterbury block, recently purchased by …
Type: Biography
… Napoleon of the south Ngāti Toa leader Te Rauparaha gained fame during the … The first migrations of Ngāti Toa were known as Te Heke Tahutahuahi (the fire-lighting migration). Ngāti Toa went … and space. Ngāti Toa chief Te Pēhi Kupe captured Kāpiti Island from the Muaūpoko people, and Ngāti Toa moved to the …
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Part of story: Musket wars
… not include bowenite. Location Pounamu is found only in the South Island. Because of this, the island was originally named Te … the Arahura River has been most important for Poutini Ngāi Tahu (Ngāi Tahu people on the West Coast), with the junction …
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Part of story: Pounamu – jade or greenstone
… in the Tauranga area, he handed command of the canoe to Tahu Pōtiki. A senior tohunga on the canoe, Ruawharo, … settled in the Wairarapa. Tahu Pōtiki then continued to the South Island, where he became the ancestor of Ngāi Tahu. Rongokako …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… capacity to process and export fisheries products. Ngāi Tahu Seafood The South Island tribe Ngāi Tahu has an extensive coastline, and in …
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Part of story: Ngā haumi a iwi – Māori investment
… two years after the Crown purchase of Canterbury from Ngāi Tahu , and within months of the arrival of the first Pākehā … with Ngāti Irakehu, a hapū which had connections in southern Wairarapa. The Banks Peninsula region into which he … uncle Hōne (John) Tīkao had both been taken to the North Island as captives. After his release Hōne worked as a …
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… Pāora Taki belonged to Ngāi Te Rakiāmoa hapū of Ngāi Tahu . He was born probably in the early nineteenth century. … . Ngāti Toa first attacked Kaikōura, and then went south to Kaiapoi where Te Pēhi Kupe and other Ngāti Toa … with his wife and daughter at Akaroa, taken to Kapiti Island and killed. Taki, now a seasoned warrior, played a …
Type: Biography
… this method the government acquired virtually the whole South Island and substantial areas in the North Island, especially … governments, for sale and grant to private settlers. Ngāi Tahu of the South Island lost their very large landed estate …
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Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… farmer who became the founding chairman of the first Ngāitahu Trust Board, was of Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki, Ngāi … to tangi for his son, Ārepa, who had been married to a South Island Māori, and to promote his movement and his petition …
Type: Biography
… Horowhenua and Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington). On Kapiti Island, during peacemaking after an unsuccessful siege of … abandoned their ancestral homeland at Kāwhia and withdrew south, first to Taranaki and later to Horowhenua. During the … take captives. They were also seeking greenstone. The Ngāi Tahu pā of Kaikōura and Ōmihi were sacked and their …
Type: Biography
… also known as Te Maiharanui, was the leader of Ngāi Tahu in the northern part of the South Island in the early nineteenth century. He was born well …
Type: Biography