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… Coastal cultivations When James Cook visited the East Coast in 1769, he noted numerous coastal settlements with intensive cultivations …
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Part of story: Te Whānau-ā-Apanui
… Rāhiri of Ngāpuhi is also connected to other North Island tribes. Rāhiri married Āhuaiti and … Rāhiri travelled from Whiria in the Hokianga to Auckland, Te Aroha, Whakatāne, the East Coast, Wellington and … In Remuera, Auckland, the peak Maunga Rāhiri was named after him (it has since been quarried). The Bay of Plenty …
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Part of story: Ngāpuhi
… Rāpata Wahawaha, of Te Aowera hapū of Ngāti Porou, was born at either Te Puia or Akuaku, in the Waiapu district. His father was …
Type: Biography
… The volcanic plateau in the central North Island is full of mystery: mud pools, hot pools, geysers and volcanoes give vent …
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Part of story: Whenua – how the land was shaped
… Protests, 1960s onwards The Māori protest movements that emerged in the 1960s and flourished in … Historic Māori protest …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū tautohetohe – Māori protest movements
… Te Urewera The land of the Tūhoe people, occupying most of the Huiarau, Kahikatea and Ikawhenua ranges and adjacent rugged country in the …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… is one of the larger tribes. There are some 42 marae. Te Tokanga-nui-a-noho marae stands at the centre of the … saying: He aha koe i haere mai ai i te rourou iti a haere, tē noho atu ai i te tokanganuianoho? Why did you come with …
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Part of story: Ngāti Maniapoto
… From the 1840s to 1900 te reo Māori remained the language of communication within … Land Court was set up in the 1860s, with Pākehā judges assisted by Māori assessors. In the proceedings Māori generally …
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Part of story: Te reo Māori – the Māori language
… 1800–1840: the occupation of Te Whanganui-a-Tara By 1800 Ngāi Tara (later Muaūpoko) were sharing their traditional lands around Te …
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Part of story: Muaūpoko
… to reach New Zealand from Hawaiki, the Maruiwi people inhabited lands throughout the central North Island. Their territory stretched from the Tāmaki isthmus to the eastern …
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Part of story: Ngāti Tūwharetoa
… is one of a number from the Taranaki region. Bounded by Te Āti Awa in the north and Ngā Ruahine in the south, the … be conquered, they are like fish with great, thick scales). Territory The tribal area is on the western cape of the …
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Part of story: Taranaki tribe
… In 1987 Te Arawa made claims to the Waitangi Tribunal concerning … of war (in the 1860s and 1870s), followed by Crown-facilitated loss of lands and resources, disrupted the tribe’s ability to be economically competitive. The …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… at Papawai, Hāmuera Tamahau Mahupuku was born on 25 September 1840. Other sources state that he was born in 1837, or in 1842. He was known to …
Type: Biography
… names and symbolism to New Zealand places taunaha (naming after body parts) to emphasise personal claims to land naming places according to their features naming places after people naming for historical or spiritual reasons naming …
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Part of story: Tapa whenua – naming places
… A recurring subject in Māori letters to newspapers is the aspiration to participate in government – or separate from it. This is most …
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Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… near Waireia, northern Hokianga, in 1851. He was of Ngāti Te Reinga of Waihou, and Te Rarawa ; his hapū, Te Tāwhiu, was prominent in the north. …
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… James Cook Lieutenant James Cook sailed across the Bay of Plenty in the … Gulf. Bay of Plenty Māori may have occasionally encountered Pākehā when they travelled north. Potatoes, a new food, were already being cultivated when the missionary Samuel Marsden visited the region in …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… Ngāpora was born early in the nineteenth century. He belonged to Ngāti Mahuta of Waikato. His parents were Hore and Kahurimu. He was the nephew of Te Rauangaanga and a cousin of Pōtatau Te Wherowhero . He …
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… On entering the Kaituna estuary beside Ōkūrei, the bow of the Te Arawa canoe was tethered to a large rock, Tokaparore, and …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… at Tauranga on 8 August 1892, the 10th of 11 children of Katerina Te Atirau, a high-ranking woman of Te Arawa , of Ngāti …
Type: Biography