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… (later Whaitiri), commonly known as Bob, was born in Bluff, Southland, on 9 May 1916. Through his parents, Robert … he could claim links with Ngāti Māmoe, Waitaha and Ngāi Tahu , and was related to the Whaitiri family of the Chatham Islands. He was the youngest of three children and the only …
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… Rangitāne in the 1892 Native Land Court hearings over the South Island Tenths. Rina's father was Meihana Kereopa, the son of … and Ngata initially encountered some resistance from Ngāi Tahu of Southland, who were hostile to any policy emanating …
Type: Biography
… tribe, and for families around Cook Strait and further south. Modern Māori and whales More recently, Māori have … ventures. Members of Ngāti Kurī, a hapū of the Ngāi Tahu tribe, created Kaikōura Whale Watch. Tourists observe … Kaikōura coastline (on the north-east coast of the South Island). Māori have also asserted their rights, under …
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Part of story: Te whānau puha – whales
… partners in the deep-sea fishing company Raukura Moana. The South Island tribe, Ngāi Tahu, operates one of New Zealand’s leading seafood …
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Part of story: Te hī ika – Māori fishing
… Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie was a Ngāi Tahu (or Kāi Tahu) leader and woman of mana, and a prominent … and John Piuraki Rehu (Ngāi Tahu), was born at Arowhenua, South Canterbury, on 30 December 1923. Erihapeti said of her … and Takerei Norton (eds.), Tāngata Ngāi Tahu: people of Ngai Tāhu , Wellington, 2017. It is published with the …
Type: Biography
… of Pegasus Bay, the great plain recedes to the distant Southern Alps. Canterbury is a region of vast skies, … Christchurch and its hinterland Christchurch is the South Island’s largest city. More than any other New Zealand city, … older and more settled than the New Zealand average. Ngāi Tahu The Māori people of Ngāi Tahu and earlier iwi (tribes) …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… adapted from a version given by Tipene O’Regan of the Ngāi Tahu tribe. 1 Poutini was a taniwha or guardian of pounamu. … sea by Whaitipū and took refuge in a bay at Tūhua (Mayor Island, in the Bay of Plenty). There, Poutini observed a … chased Poutini through the North Island and down to the South Island, eventually finding him at the Arahura River. …
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Part of story: Pounamu – jade or greenstone
… Ngāti Toa were on their long journey from Kāwhia to the south. He took the name Tāmihana (Thompson) when he was … by Hadfield. Katu was carried as a baby to Kāpiti, the island which became the new home of Ngāti Toa. As a child he … and was with his father when they were ambushed by Ngāi Tahu at Kāparatehau (Lake Grassmere), about 1833. Tāmihana …
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… her husband and his brother set off by canoe from Kāpiti Island, off the south-west of the North Island, to Rangitoto ki te … a matter of life or death. In 1831 Whakarua- tapu of Ngāi Tahu was a captive on a canoe of the Ngāti Toa leader Te …
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Part of story: Open water swimming
… Park, a site of great cultural significance to the Ngāi Tahu tribe. The 51,800-hectare Special Takahē Area, covering … in the 1970s and 1980s. Most are on the West Coast of the South Island, and in Southland and Bay of Plenty. The public can …
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Part of story: Protected areas
… Ngāti Toa were driven back to the pā of Te Tōtara, at the southern end of Kāwhia Harbour, where peace was made, but it … section of their migration to the south, known as Te Heke Tahu-tahu-ahi. Te Rauparaha burned his carved house and … as Te Heke Tātaramoa, which was to bring them to Kāpiti Island, was under way. Joined by some Te Āti Awa, the …
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… Geology Marlborough is a rectangular block in the north-east South Island. It is sliced diagonally into two zones by the Alpine … east coast of the South Island. Both Ngāti Māmoe and Ngāi Tahu followed this route, which took them to the Kaikōura …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… Hauraro is the north wind, or wind from below. Tonga is the south wind, and hauāuru the west wind. There are numerous … tribal names for winds. The east wind is known as marangai, also meaning a storm, or bad weather. However, in some … Bay. In Taranaki, pieke is the east wind with rain. To Ngāi Tahu, Rakamaomao is the group of winds that blow from the …
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Part of story: Tāwhirimātea – the weather
… (Stewart Island) Māori, the Māori people of New Zealand’s southernmost region and their descendants, have rights to … are known as the Rakiura Tītī Islands, which up until the Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998 were also known as the Crown …
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Part of story: Tītī − muttonbirding
… Whitebaiting was carried out by Māori in the North and South islands, both as a source of food and additional income when … Island tītī (muttonbirds) were harvested and sold by Ngāi Tahu families. Many Māori were sharecroppers on land owned …
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Part of story: Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy
… and John Bumby met Ngāti Toa leader Te Rauparaha at Mana Island in June 1839, and were well received. Te Rauparaha … Mokiho of Ngāi Tūahuriri and Ngāti Pūneke, hapū of Ngāi Tahu. The people of Rāpaki, Ngāti Wheke, gifted a generous … to shift the centre of their mission to the Māori of the South Island from Ōtākou on the Otago Peninsula to Rāpaki. …
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… wheat, maize, potatoes and various kinds of nuts on Moturua Island in the Bay of Islands. In 1773, British explorer … kidney beans, peas, turnips and wheat. That same year, south of Cape Kidnappers, Cook gave the Māori chief Tuanui … were distributed throughout the South Island through Ngāi Tahu networks. In 1820, the Russian explorer Fabian von …
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Part of story: Kai Pākehā – introduced foods
… Rākaihautū and Tamatea Māori trace their arrival in Southland to the chiefs Rākaihautū and Tamatea. Rākaihautū, … are the upturned hull of the canoe. The lower South Island was known as Murihiku, a name that loosely means ‘the … warfare and then intermarriage. In the early 1800s the Ngāi Tahu tribe gradually incorporated Ngāti Māmoe. The first …
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Part of story: Southland region
… Nicholas met a ‘lascar’, an Indian sailor, at the Bay of Islands in 1814. The sailor had jumped ship in 1810, married … ship in Otago Harbour. Three ended up living with Ngāi Tahu and received moko. They reputedly taught Ngāi Tahu to … of China’s Guangdong province and the main trading city for South China. Kauri spars for masts were shipped to India and …
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Part of story: Asia and New Zealand
… voyages . Cook circumnavigated and mapped the three main islands and returned to Britain with reports about the … New Zealand was an economic and cultural outpost of New South Wales, and most of the earliest European settlers came … tribes, and Ngāti Toa , under Te Rauparaha , attacked Ngāi Tahu in the South Island. But diseases introduced by …
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Part of story: History