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… led by Tūpenu and employed by the chief Manaia, molested Manaia’s wife, Rongotiki. Manaia’s people attacked and … sailed northward past North Cape or was carried across the Te Tō Waka portage at Auckland, and then went south to …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… Te Mātenga Tāmati Aside from Rua Kēnana, there were a number of claimants to be Te Kooti’s predicted successor. Mātenga Tāmati from Ngāti …
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Part of story: Māori prophetic movements – ngā poropiti
… Awaiti (little river), but others are difficult to translate because they may have more than one meaning. For example, … who lured a taniwha out of a lake). Motuihe could be interpreted as the motu (island) of ihe (garfish), but in fact …
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Part of story: Tapa whenua – naming places
… or Māori King movement, began in the 1850s. Tāmihana Te Rauparaha and Hēnare Mātene Te Whiwhi promoted the idea of a Māori monarch. Te …
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Part of story: Kotahitanga – unity movements
… rather than belonging to a particular hapū. Many were for tertiary institutions. They maintained the teaching function of houses such as Nuku-te-apiapi at …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… The advent of Māori-language broadcasting on both radio and television and a new generation educated in the Māori tongue have helped to foster the continued …
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Part of story: Waiata hōu – contemporary Māori songs
… tangible records of Māori culture in the region are mysterious rock carvings of lizard and bird-like shapes at Kōhī, near Waverley. Particularly noteworthy meeting houses along the Whanganui River include: …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… Burling and Joanna Pike. He worked as a silk and satin printer. On 27 January 1839 he married Mary Worsley at … they already had four children, and four more were born after their marriage. Henry and Mary Burling and their family …
Type: Biography
… between 1857 and 1862, the youngest of five children of Te Roroa leader Tiopira Kīnaki (also known as Tiopira Te Rurunga, Tiopira Rēhi and Tiopira Tāoho) and his wife, Mārara Māhuhu. Her hapū were Ngāti Rangi and Te Roroa of Te Roroa, Ngāti Pākau and Ngāi Tū of Ngāpuhi, …
Type: Biography
… Ideas about origins Until the arrival of Europeans in the late 1700s, Māori held a world view that originated in their Polynesian homeland. This grew and changed …
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Part of story: Te Ao Mārama – the natural world
… Māori women, the sources of this mana (mana wahine) include te ara uwha o Tahu (the heavenly female path of Tahu), the … first female entity, followed by Hineahuone, who was created out of clay by Tāne at Kurawaka. The next atua wahine … Hinetītama, who fled to the underworld and became Hine-nui-te-pō after discovering that her husband, Tāne, was also her …
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Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… of the origin of the world that speaks meaningfully to contemporary experience. These explanations take numerous … arise from a reflection on the nature of life and existence. Once, mythologies were the most common explanation of existence. Every society had a mythic narrative about the origin …
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Part of story: Māori creation traditions
… believe Māori settled in Palliser Bay in the late 1300s. They lived on small birds, fish, seals and kūmara … There is evidence that about 300 people lived in six separate communities on the eastern side of the bay. By the 1600s these settlements had …
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Part of story: Wairarapa region
… The Ringatū movement Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki was a prophet who came to prominence after …
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Part of story: Ngā hāhi – Māori and Christian denominations
… place in Māori history, mythology and tradition. It is often referred to in songs, proverbs and genealogies. For … with the phrase: E taku pōtiki, kua puta mai rā koe i te toi i Hawaiki. My child, you are born from the source, …
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Part of story: Hawaiki
… The Ngāti Porou homeland is the most easterly region of the North Island. It sits inside the two … of Horouta and Tākitimu. The traditional Horouta canoe territory is from Te Taumata-ō-Apanui in the north to Paritū …
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Part of story: Ngāti Porou
… the brother of Whaene and Kahungunu. Their father was Tamatea-pōkai-whenua-pōkai-moana. Some traditions state that he was the grandson of Tamatea-arikinui, the captain of the Tākitimu canoe, while …
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Part of story: Tauranga Moana
… One of his great-grandfathers was Tūnuiāmoa, and he was related to the higher ranking chief Tāmati Hōne Ōraukawa , who … before 1854, was of the Tangāhoe people. He was also connected, through family marriages, with Ngāti Maru of Te Āti …
Type: Biography
… Mānuka and Ārai-te-uru The Mānuka canoe set out for Hawaiki, the Polynesian … returned with a cargo of kūmara (sweet potato). Unfortunately, the tubers failed to germinate because of the cold in …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… for control over Kāwhia Harbour and its rich environs. Te Rauparaha, one of the leading chiefs of Ngāti Toa, urged the people to migrate to the Kāpiti region in the south, where there was an abundance of land and resources, and greater opportunity to trade with Pākehā for guns. Leaving …
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Part of story: Ngāti Toarangatira