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… Sometimes it is the moon that prompts the children to separate their parents, Rangi and Papa; in other accounts it is … Cosmology This is part of a cosmological chant recited by Te Kohuora of Rongoroa: Nā te kune te pupuke Nā te …
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Part of story: Māori creation traditions
… Ko Tongariro te maunga Ko Taupō-nui-a-Tia te moana Ko Ngāti Tūwharetoa te iwi Ko Te Heuheu te tangata. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāti Tūwharetoa
… of Heretaunga (Hawke's Bay) in the first half of the nineteenth century. Through his father, Te Ōrihau, he was descended from Te Rangikoiānake I and Te …
Type: Biography
… mountain of Ngāti Raukawa. Many important ancestral sites – birthplaces, cemeteries, pā sites, houses of learning, and more – are found …
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Part of story: Ngāti Raukawa
… in the style called pewapewa, was born probably in the late eighteenth century in Wairarapa. He was descended from the …
Type: Biography
… Nā Toi rāua ko Pōtiki te whenua Nā Tūhoe te mana me te rangatiratanga. The land comes from Toi and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… example, the pre-dawn rising of Matariki (the Pleiades cluster) signalled both the Māori new year around June and the … that the East Coast of the North Island had gentle water, so it was named Tai Tamawahine (female sea). The rough …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kōrero taiao
… Ōpōtiki-mai-tawhiti (the pets from afar). This name was later applied to the township of Ōpōtiki. Tarawa’s arrival is … commemorating the settlement of the land by Māori and later Pākehā ancestors. Tautūrangi The next ancestor of note …
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Part of story: Te Whakatōhea
… was a mountain that became known as Pirongia, shortened from Te Pirongia-o-Te Aroaro-ō-Kahu (the scented … in the saying, Haere mai ki ahau Ki Te Papa-o-Rotu Ki te au tē rena, Ki te urunga tē taka, Ki te moenga tē whakaarahia. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Waikato tribes
… reaches of the Wanganui River. Her mother, Titia, was of Te Arawa , and her father, Te Aewa, a notable warrior, was of Ngāti Tūpoho of Te Āti …
Type: Biography
… The Kīngitanga or Māori King movement, which originated in 1858 with the crowning of Kīngi Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, is one of the most enduring of the Māori …
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Part of story: Kīngitanga – the Māori King movement
… whose art can be seen within their compositions. Mananui Te Heuheu Mananui Te Heuheu was the son of Te Heuheu Herea and paramount chief …
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Part of story: Māori composers – ngā kaitito waiata
… Pāoa Ngāti Pāoa descend from the ancestor Pāoa, who migrated from Ngāruawāhia on the Waikato River to Hauraki … of Ngāti Pāoa, conquered much of Tāmaki (Auckland) in separate battles. Ngāti Pāoa fought a number of campaigns against …
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Part of story: Tāmaki tribes
… of the reign of the second king, King Tāwhiao , were dominated by the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s. The … Māori monarch has been the beloved Queen Dame Te Atairangikaahu , who reigned for 40 years until her death …
Type: Story Front
… expression describes the death of a chief: Kua hinga te tōtara i Te Waonui a Tāne. A tōtara has fallen in the great forest of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te Waonui a Tāne – forest mythology
… of Korokī The kingship was passed on to the eldest son of Te Rata , Korokī , who reluctantly accepted, and became , the fifth Māori king, known as Korokī Te …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kīngitanga – the Māori King movement
… to the ‘rebel’ tribes of the Bay of Plenty – Tūhoe, Te Whakatōhea and Ngāti Awa – were confiscated by the government. This area was subsequently reduced to …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… The Waitangi Tribunal was set up in 1975 to investigate and make recommendations to the government on grievances … in 2008 to a number of iwi in a deal known as ‘treelords’. Te Ohu Kaimoana had come about as part of a treaty fisheries …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations
… Ranginui (great heavens), Rangiroa (expansive heavens), or Te Ranginui-e-tū-nei (the great-standing heavens). He was also called Te Rangiātea, which referred to the great breadth of the …
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Part of story: Ranginui – the sky
… also known as Huka, was a chief of Ngāti Whakaue, of Te Arawa , and lived at Ōhinemutu. His mother's name is not … He was a descendant of Taua. Taua's wife was abducted to Taupōby Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Taua took a war party in …
Type: Biography