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… Jones was born at Poro-o-Tarao in the King Country on 14 September 1895, the son of Daniel Lewis, a European storekeeper, and Paretekōrae Poutama of Ngāti Maniapoto . Sometime after the …
Type: Biography
… stories of Māui, kaumātua feature either as leading characters or as imparters of knowledge. The discarded baby Māui, who had been … Taranga, was discovered by his grandfather Tamanui-ki-te-rangi when he washed ashore in his mother’s top knot. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kaumātua – Māori elders
… Bay of Islands and Whangārei (not including those of related tribes in Whangārei, the Kaipara and Muriwhenua), and … the destinies of all Ngāpuhi sub-tribes are irrevocably intertwined. The ‘puna’ represent springs of people flowing to …
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Part of story: Ngāpuhi
… Origins The King movement (Te Kīngitanga) began in the 1850s, some years after the arrival of Europeans, in an attempt to halt sales of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Waikato tribes
… Wēpiha Apanui (also known as Wēpiha Te Mautaranui) was the son of Apanui Te Hāmaiwaho and Mīria Tārei of Ngāti Awa . He was the …
Type: Biography
… a leader of Heretaunga (Hawke's Bay), and of the district extending south to the Manawatū Gorge, during the nineteenth century. She was publicly consulted by influential …
Type: Biography
… in August 1849 and worked initially with fellow German Protestant missionary Johann Riemenschneider, in Taranaki. In … Missionary Society. For several years he worked as a lay teacher in lower Waikato. He married Emma Lanfear probably …
Type: Biography
… Harbour, and Murimotu. Ngātokimatawhaorua and Māmari After the Polynesian explorer Kupe returned to Hawaiki his … battle followed, and Ruanui’s tohunga (priests) chanted incantations, compelling a huge whale to beach itself as …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Canoe traditions
… and Waitaha. His hapū were Ngāi Taoka, Ngāti Huirapa, Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki, Ngāi Te Rakiāmoa and Ngāi Tūāhuriri. His father was Tohu, his …
Type: Biography
… Māori observed birds carefully, and their actions were often believed to predict the weather. Hurupounamu (bush wren) … Kārearea (falcon) The kārearea’s cry was believed to foretell the weather, as in the saying: Ka tangi te kārewarewa ki waenga o te rangi pai, ka ua āpōpō. Ka …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā manu – birds
… Who was Toi? Toitehuatahi (Toi the lone born) is an important early ancestor … speak of his authority and prestige. A tribe known as Te Tini o Toi (Toi’s multitudes) are said to have inhabited … Toitehuatahi …
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Part of story: First peoples in Māori tradition
… was the leading tohunga of the Ringatū church, founded by Te Kooti Arikirangi . His father, Raukura, from Ngāi Tahupō of Māhia Peninsula, was taken prisoner by Tūhoe after tribal fighting. His mother, Whakatiki Te Momo (Te …
Type: Biography
… Nuka Taipari belonged to Ngāti Hē, a hapū of Ngāi Te Rangi of Tauranga. He was the principal chief of … his parents. He had a number of wives, one of whom was of Te Arawa, but their names too are not known. Nuka was in his …
Type: Biography
… formed to provide a cultural connection for those separated from their culture by urbanisation. While these groups … to serve the earlier functions of fundraising and tourist entertainment, they were also a vehicle for preserving Māori …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kapa Haka
… He was the fourth surviving son of Mahuta Tawhiao Pōtatau Te Wherowhero , the third Māori King. His mother was Te Marae, a daughter of the chief Amukete (Amuketi) Te …
Type: Biography
… area for settlement. (The validity of this purchase was later disputed.) The following year, English immigrants began arriving … pressure on the areas occupied by Māori pā and settlements steadily increased. The New Zealand Company had sold sections … After 1840 …
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Part of story: Te Āti Awa of Wellington
… In response to the increasing number of kōhanga reo graduates, kura kaupapa (Māori-language immersion schools) were … immersion Māori-language education. The first to open was Te Kura Kaupapa o Hoani Waititi in Auckland. A curriculum …
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Part of story: Te reo Māori – the Māori language
… under the ground and came up again at Kāwhia, on the opposite coast, before the canoe arrived. In another account, he left the canoe in Auckland after his request to marry Kahurere, daughter of the Tainui ’s captain, Hoturoa, was refused. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… on its banks, and fought over it. The people say, ‘Ko au te awa. Ko te awa ko au' (I am the river. The river is me). …
Type: Story Front
… Tōpia Peehi Tūroa was a chief of Ngāti Patutokotoko hapū of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi of the upper Whanganui River. His influence extended to Lake Taupō. Born probably in the second decade of …
Type: Biography