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… important leader of Ngāti Kurī, a founding hapū of Ngāi Tahu in the South Island. She was born at Little River, Banks Peninsula, …
Type: Biography
… She was the youngest of the eight children of Tāhuna and Tahupare, both of Ngāi Tahu . On the side of her father, … with George at the sealing settlement on Whenuahou (Codfish Island), off the north-western shore of Rakiura (Stewart … mothers of an extensive network of Māori–Pākehā families in southern New Zealand. She was one of the earliest of that …
Type: Biography
… Te Huruhuru (or Huruhuru) of Ngāi Tahu was born probably about 1800. He was one of eight … in the course of his census of the Māori population of southern New Zealand, arrived at Te Puna-a-Maru on 10 … about the geography of the interior of the South Island, including the first map of Lakes Wanaka, Hāwea and …
Type: Biography
… Kokiro back to Te Rākaihautu and the Waitaha people of the South Island. Through Te Rehi-oriori, Te Maiharoa belonged to Ngāti Huirapa, a hapū of Ngāi Tahu which was also linked to Ngāti Māmoe. Little is known …
Type: Biography
… Ngāi Te Ao, Rangitāne, and to Ngāti Kuia who lived on the island now known as Arapawa, in Queen Charlotte Sound. … Tāmairangi and her husband lived at Ōmanga-rau-tāwhiri, south of Tītahi Bay, and Te Kēkerengū near Te Ana-paura, … at Kaiapoi pā. Possibly they sought shelter with Ngāi Tahu at Kaikōura, and died when Te Rauparaha and Ngāti Toa …
Type: Biography
… Te Whakataupuka of Ngāi Tahu was born probably in Murihiku (the southern part of the South Island), late in the eighteenth century. His Ngāi Tahu …
Type: Biography
… Greymouth, on 1 May 1903 to Toihi Te Koeti of Poutini Ngāi Tahu and Robert Fluerty, a goldminer of European and Ngāi … Fluerty was to become a well-known climbing guide in the Southern Alps, where he achieved a number of first ascents … airbase in Wellington. He later moved back to the South Island to work at Woodbourne airbase near Blenheim, before …
Type: Biography
… by the sealers of Foveaux Strait, was the leader of Ngāi Tahu in Murihiku (the southern part of the South Island) from the death of Te Whakataupuka , probably in …
Type: Biography
… of the Austronesian language family, which is found through South-East Asia and the Pacific. It is one of a number of … and comes under the Tahitic branch, as do Tahitian, Cook Island Māori and languages of the Tuamotu Archipelago. It is … areas. Ngāi Tūhoe pronounce the ‘ng’ as ‘n’, while Ngāi Tahu replace ‘ng’ with ‘k’. Among the Whanganui and Taranaki …
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Part of story: Te reo Māori – the Māori language
… every year. The main mountain ranges in both the North and South Islands are made of greywacke – a hard, grey muddy sandstone … is now a centre for pounamu craft work. Under the Ngāi Tahu (Pounamu Vesting) Act 1997, the ownership of all …
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Part of story: Gemstones
… Crown’s attempt to address Māori grievances included: the South Island Landless Natives Act 1906, which led to some … a ‘more liberal spirit’ in their dealings with the Ngāi Tahu people of the South Island, and that some North Island …
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… Ngāi Tahu report In 1991 the Waitangi Tribunal reported on a claim dealing with historic grievances by the South Island iwi Ngāi Tahu. Part of the fabric The Ngāi Tahu claim …
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… were well underway with Waikato–Tainui and with the Ngāi Tahu people of the South Island, along with a number of smaller claims. Graham argued …
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… Waikuku Farming locality 16 km south of Amberley and 33 km from Christchurch, with a 2013 … settlement of the Ngāi Tūahuriri hapū (sub-tribe) of Ngāi Tahu. A Māori mission was established at Tuahiwi in the 19th … the vessel Pegasus , which surveyed this part of the South Island coast in 1809. Seaside suburbs of Christchurch lie on …
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Part of story: Canterbury places
… of occupation, little is known about early Māori on the island. Coastal settlements were not large and the island … Port Pegasus/Pikihatiti, on the eastern coast from The Neck southwards to Tikotatahi Bay, and Port Adventure. Waka … m), is spiritually important to Māori. In oral lore Ngāi Tahu ancestor Rakitamau lost his wife so he took a waka to …
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Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… by inland ranges and basins, Otago also includes the southernmost peaks of the Southern Alps, coastal lowlands, … (large flightless birds) attracted Māori to the lower South Island, which they called Murihiku. However, by the time of … clustered on the coast. They identified themselves as Ngāi Tahu, and also with that tribe’s predecessors, Ngāti Māmoe …
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Part of story: Otago region
… 1858 Mackay was instructed by McLean to purchase Ngāi Tahu title to the Kaikōura block of 2,500,000 acres and the … of Marlborough and the whole West Coast from Kahurangi south to Milford. Mackay was instructed to pay £150 for each … Waikato areas. Instead of letting him return to the South Island, Grey on 5 December 1864 appointed him civil …
Type: Biography
… legacy Kupe, the great Polynesian explorer, named the islands in Wellington Harbour after his daughters, Matiu … one of his daughters threw herself from a clifftop on the southern coast onto the rocks below, which were stained with … including Rangitāne, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Māmoe and Ngāi Tahu also occupied parts of the Wellington region, often …
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Part of story: Wellington region
… Māori New Zealand’s nearshore islands have always attracted people. As experienced … renowned chief Te Rauparaha led Ngāti Toa and their allies south to a new home in the Wellington region in the 1820s, … as his base. Much further south, his opponent, the Ngāi Tahu leader Tūhawaiki, had a home on Ruapuke Island, off …
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Part of story: Nearshore islands
… northern Taranaki, and were allied to Ngāti Mutunga to the south. Across the Mōkau River, to the north, lived enemy … Tama, on their migration (Te Heke Tātaramoa) to Kapiti Island. He returned to the north, and in 1824 brought more … River. Te Pūoho joined Te Rauparaha in the raid on Ngāi Tahu at Kaiāpoi pā and Banks Peninsula at the beginning of …
Type: Biography