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… had first right of refusal of surplus Crown land. Ngāi Tahu became the largest landowner in the South Island after the Crown. …
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Part of story: Land ownership
… Te Maihāroa In the South Island, in 1877, Hipa Te Maihāroa led a protest group to … called in the police, who in 1879 evicted the Ngāi Tahu ‘squatters’. Te Maihāroa moved to Korotuaheka, at the …
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Part of story: Māori prophetic movements – ngā poropiti
… 1999 study that compared great whites from Australasian and South African coastal regions, males ranged widely across … as mangō taniwha, mangō ururoa and, to people of the Ngāi Tahu tribe, tupa. Short-fin mako The Māori name mako has … Zane Grey, who wrote about big-game fish in the Bay of Islands, noted that mako could leap as high as 6 metres out …
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Part of story: Sharks and rays
… known as Johnny Jones, was born probably in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1808 or 1809, the son of Thomas Jones; his … initial success led him, in 1838, to buy from the Ngāi Tahu leader Tūhawaiki blocks of land in the regions that … was aware that his landholdings were in danger if the South Island became a British possession, and persuaded the chiefs …
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… probably at one point fed into the Awatere, but now flows south to join the Clarence; it is reached from the Awatere … the Southern Alps (higher than any summit in the North Island), 2,885-m Tapuae-o-Uenuku (informally known as … known to Māori as Kāpara Te Hau (wind-ruffled waters). Ngāi Tahu defeated Te Rauparaha and his followers in a major …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… The South Island’s longest river, and Otago’s main river, the Clutha … runs from Lake Wānaka to its mouth on the coast south-east of Balclutha. Two-thirds of the Clutha’s water … Haehae (the division of the waters). Since the 1998 Ngāi Tahu settlement this is the name of the bed of Lake …
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Part of story: Otago places
… with significant Māori populations in the central North Island and Northland. In some areas European place names … the Māori word for twisted, replaced Corkscrew Road in South Otago. The New Zealand Geographic Board set up in 1946 … place names. One settlement with South Island tribe Ngāi Tahu specified 96 place name alterations. Most acquired …
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Part of story: Place names
… in the Middle East, Asia, Australia, Europe and North and South America. According to Greek myth, the nine brightest … star closest to Matariki, and easier to see in twilight. Ngai Tahu in the South Island call the star Puaka. There are also …
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Part of story: Matariki – Te Tau Hou Māori
… travelled through Taranaki to the west coast region of the southern North Island. Te Rangihaeata assisted in the taking of the Ngāti … section of the main Ngāti Toa migration, called Te Heke Tahu-tahu-ahi, southwards. Te Rangihaeata's infant son, Te …
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… A colonial official, Walter Mantell , had helped to deprive South Island Māori of nearly all their land, and later bitterly … the government failed to honour its promises to Ngāi Tahu. In 1883 George Rusden, an Australian civil servant and …
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Part of story: Anti-racism and Treaty of Waitangi activism
… Dunedin ‘comprising mostly Maoris from “the Kaik” [the Ngāi Tahu village at Ōtākou].’ 1 Māori trophies Northern and Southern Māori teams competed for Te Mori rose bowl from … Makirikiri Shield, Saville Shield and Bamber Cup South Island – Arepa Cup, between provincial Māori teams (in the …
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Part of story: Māori rugby – whutupaoro
… Huia. Their groups also represented New Zealand at four South Pacific festivals, the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and … Ruanui, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngā Rauru, Pakakohi and Ngāi Tahu. The Pātea Māori Club’s performance of the resulting … Performing Arts Festival, and teams from other Pacific Island nations were no longer eligible to compete. Te …
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Part of story: Kapa Haka
… their interests. His politics were those of the North Island country settler and his conservatism did not preclude … objectors. Herries proved more sympathetic to Ngāi Tahu and Taranaki causes, and was at least partly influenced … tardy attempts to deal with Ngāi Tahu grievances in the South Island Landless Natives Act 1906 were never regarded …
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… of the Crown’s assumption of sovereignty over the South Island 16 November: opening of Wāhiao meeting house at … of British sovereignty in the South Island, some Ngāi Tahu were heard to mutter, ‘Way goes the land. Now the …
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Part of story: Anniversaries
… by the seizure of a Hokianga-built ship in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1830. The Sir George Murray sailed to Sydney … was still used by some Māori – it was flown by the Ngāi Tahu chief Tūhawaiki on Ruapuke Island, near Bluff, until his death in 1844 – and remained a …
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Part of story: Flags
… known as Taare Rakatauhake Parata, of Waikouaiti, in the South Island. His father, Tame Haereroa Parata, was MHR for … Māori and had affiliations with Ngāti Huirapa hapū of Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mamoe and Waitaha. His mother was Peti Hurene or …
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… Bay). Paremata and Te Pūoho continued to escort migrants south to the southern North Island and the South Island, and were prominent in the … Pass), intending to make a surprise attack on the Ngāi Tahu stronghold at Ruapuke Island. Captured at Tūtūrau, …
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… received an order to accompany Colonel E. L. Godfrey to the South Island. He was to act as interpreter at courts of inquiry … . From the latter, the principal southern chief of Ngāi Tahu, Shortland acquired a framework of South Island Māori …
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… Population Covering some 12% of New Zealand’s area, Southland has just 2.2% of its population: 93,339 residents … the Waitangi Tribunal began hearing claims by the South Island tribe Ngāi Tahu over land loss and fishery rights. Four years later the … Southland people …
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Part of story: Southland region
… north of Dunedin, Taiāwhio married Pani Parata of Ngāi Tahu. She was a licensed interpreter and a talented pianist, … life, at least in Wairarapa. He had spent some time in the South Island in order to allow Pani to be with her own people, but …
Type: Biography