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… home of his tribe well before Ngāti Raukawa migrated south to the Cook Strait region. He is said to have … travelled on the first section of the migration, Te Heke Tahutahu-ahi, about 1821. Thus, as a young man he lived … movement of many northern peoples to the south of the North Island in the 1820s and 1830s. It is not surprising that the …
Type: Biography
… was born, according to family tradition, on the Chatham Islands, probably in 1848 or 1849. Her mother was Rongorongo … ancestral lands. They had migrated from northern Taranaki south to the Kapiti coast, Wairarapa and Te Whanganui-a-Tara … Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga, and he was also kin to Ngāi Tahu. Ngāti Tama still living at Te Whanganui-a-Tara and the …
Type: Biography
… the leader of the migration of Ngāti Mutunga to the Chatham Islands. When a young man, Ngātata was one of the defenders … the Waitara River, about 1820. Te Rauparaha had persuaded southern Te Āti Awa hapū to help him in attacking Tūkorehu. … daughter Kararaina Te Piki, who married Taiaroa of Ngāi Tahu. A memorial to him was erected there by the government. …
Type: Biography
… she was taken on a visit to her Ngāti Toa relatives in the south. Her romantic affair with Hauāuru was often on her … welcome by her Ngāti Toa kin. During her visit to the South Island she was invited by Taiaroa , a leading chief of Ngāi Tahu, to visit his home where she met many European people. …
Type: Biography
… this time, and on 4 July 1923 he married, at Temuka in the South Island, Mere Tī Gray, daughter of William Gray and Hīria Kokoro Tiratahi of Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe. There were no children of this …
Type: Biography
… in the wake of Ihimaera and Grace are Keri Hulme (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Māmoe) and Alan Duff (Ngāti Rangitihi, … and savagely realist novel set on the West Coast of the South Island, won the Booker Prize in 1985. Alan Duff’s first …
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Part of story: Fiction
… reader. In his mid teens Ramsden joined the Bank of New South Wales in Wanganui. When clerical work palled, he … Puea and stayed with her on her land development block at Tahuna in January 1932. On this same visit he conducted a … at the University of Sydney and founded the Pacific Islands Club (later Society), becoming its first secretary. …
Type: Biography
… of Ngāti Te Hina, and was connected with Wairarapa Ngāi Tahu. Te Korou and his family were also connected with Ngāti … the proposed 'Canterbury settlement', later sited in the South Island. Te Korou took part in other transactions; his …
Type: Biography
… Rīpeka Mātene (Rebecca Martin) on 28 June 1882 at Kapiti Island. Her father was Pāti (Pāti or Patrick) Mātene, a … Kahungunu came from Wairarapa and the east coast; Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Rārua and Ngāti Kuia came from the South Island, and many prominent Europeans were also …
Type: Biography
… mid 1842 William sailed the length of the east coast of the South Island in the cutter Brothers which, under the command of … and the Crown bought an extensive part of the lands of Ngāi Tahu. Soon after, the New Zealand Company delegated to the …
Type: Biography
… whose name he took. He was brought up at Waiōrore, south of Whitianga, and went to Ōmāio Native School until … Sydney he decided instead to go with a friend to the South Island, where he was to stay for a number of years. During … Te Au; she was of chiefly descent from Ngāti Mamoe and Ngāi Tahu. When their eldest daughter was six months old, Pāora …
Type: Biography
… to study community development programmes in India and South-East Asia. He presented a report of his findings to … Freda Violet Rankin on 23 May 1970 at Oromāhoe, Bay of Islands. Freda was one of the first Māori women to graduate … contributed to 12 reports, including the three volume Ngāi Tahu report (1991). In that inquiry the tribunal found that …
Type: Biography
… surrendered three days later. Te Aowera then went further south to Wairoa and defeated the Hauhau at Te Kōpane on 13 … When Te Kooti and his followers escaped from the Chatham Islands and landed at Whareongaonga in Poverty Bay on 10 … when his first wife died; in later life he married a Ngāi Tahu woman, Ria (or Rea) Horomona, and lived at her home at …
Type: Biography
… was descended from Kahungunu, from Te Aomatarahi of Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Ira, and from earlier tribal groups occupying … under his protection was a European whaling community at Rangaiika, south of Cape Kidnappers. Mohi's father is thought to have …
Type: Biography
… an appointment as assistant chaplain to the colony of New South Wales. In 1793 he was ordained, and at Hull on 21 … Kendall (who had come out in 1813) did not reach the Bay of Islands until June 1814; Marsden himself did not arrive … in the abduction and torture of Tama-i-hara-nui of Ngāi Tahu by Ngāti Toa. He urged the dispatch of a naval vessel …
Type: Biography
… history but was not gifted academically. After two years at Southland Boys' High School, Invercargill, he left in 1896 … interest in the traditional lifestyle and history of Ngāi Tahu in southern New Zealand. Another important influence on … of original material from oral sources in the South Island, he can be compared with Edward Shortland and Walter …
Type: Biography
… Pakuranga when James was born, and a few months later moved south to a block of land near Kihikihi, where Cowan and his … were being opened up for tourism, particularly in the South Island. In addition to magazine articles he wrote three … to seek out informants for oral history, including Ngāi Tahu leader Hōne Taare Tīkao , whom he and his wife often …
Type: Biography
… an expert in customary land tenure and land reform in the South Pacific. He was a practitioner of ‘participant … a PhD thesis on Anglican missionaries in the Solomon Islands under the supervision of Pacific historian J.W. … From 1987 he led a group of researchers in the Ngāi Tahu inquiry, the first of the tribunal’s major regional and …
Type: Biography
… were with Ngāti Kahungunu , Rangitāne, Ngāti Ira and Ngāi Tahu of Wairarapa. Te Hiko was descended from the ancestor … Rangitāwhanga, from whom he inherited rights over lands in Southern Wairarapa. The early adult life of Te Hiko was … block, which was effected in Wellington by Hēmi Te Miha, Ngairo Takatakapūtea and Rāniera Te Iho. In an effort to …
Type: Biography
… grow to maturity in New Zealand. He was born at Waimate in South Canterbury on 6 January 1923, the eldest of three … lifetime and since claimed that Norman Kirk had some Ngāi Tahu ancestry, but there is no evidence to substantiate … the Canterbury hinterland. Nor did Kirk neglect the Chatham Islands, which were attached to the Lyttelton electorate. …
Type: Biography