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… Problems in publication Early-20th-century Pākehā writers changed the order of creation from Te Pō (the darkness), then Te Ao (the light) followed by Te …
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Part of story: Whakapapa – genealogy
… Rotorua, possibly in 1836, the year of the battles of Te Tūmū and Mātaipuku, and lived there for most of his life. From time to time he also lived at Te Koutu, close to Ōhinemutu, and at Mokoia Island, as well …
Type: Biography
… There have been few Māori writers of biography. At the centennial in 1940, Guy Scholefield , the author of the 1940 … Writers of biography …
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… of the East Coast township of Tokomaru Bay. Her parents, Te Rā Haangū Ngāwai, a farmer, and his wife, Te Ipo Hārata Te Awhi Kaahi Parata, were both of Te …
Type: Biography
… pā, Manutūkē, in Poverty Bay, at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was the second son of Te Pohepohe (also known as Pītau) of Ngāti Maru, and …
Type: Biography
… Ngāti Toa , who was a descendant of Werawera, the father of Te Rauparaha , and his first wife, Waitāoro. Her father was … kin to Ngāti Maniapoto. Waitāoro's early life was dominated by the attempts of Ngāti Tama to return to their …
Type: Biography
… Tānerore is the sun, who has two wives – Hinetakurua (winter maiden) with whom he spends winter, and Hineraumati (summer maiden) with whom he spends his …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: First peoples in Māori tradition
… The people of Ngāti Ruanui have a traditional saying: Ko Aotea te waka Ko Turi te tangata ki runga Ko Taranaki te maunga Ko Waingongoro te …
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Part of story: Ngāti Ruanui
… River on part of its course across the Kāingaroa Plateau, 55 km east of Rotorua. A short distance east of Murupara the plateau ends abruptly against the foothills of the Ikawhenua …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… association with whales. While whales provided food and utensils, they also feature in tribal traditions and were … sometimes guardians on the ancestors’ canoe journeys to Aotearoa. Oral histories recall interactions between people …
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Part of story: Te whānau puha – whales
… New directions after Te Māori The years immediately following the Te Māori exhibition saw an increase in Māori involvement in …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… In Māori culture, humans are seen as deeply connected to the land and to the natural world. Kaitiakitanga … out of this connection and expresses it in a modern context. Tangata whenua Tangata whenua – literally, people of … Connected to nature …
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Part of story: Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation
… he had been taken into slavery by Waikato leader Pōtatau Te Wherowhero . When released he became a Wesleyan convert. … Tāmati Hōne when he was baptised. In April 1848 Ōraukawa wrote to the Wesleyan missionary William Woon, at Heretoa …
Type: Biography
… on 5 July 1860 at Ngāruawāhia. Wiremu Tāmihana Tarapīpīpī Te Waharoa anointed him in the whakawahinga ceremony, using the same bible …
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Part of story: Kīngitanga – the Māori King movement
… Matiaha Pāhewa and his wife, Hera Marokau, who were both of Te Whānau-a-Rua, a hapū of Ngāti Porou . His father served … lived the whole of his long life in the atmosphere of Te Hāhi Mihinare, the Anglican Māori mission. He was educated at Te Aute College (his two sisters went to Hukarere …
Type: Biography
… when northern raiders arrived with muskets. Muskets created their own bitter logic: they were used to capture slaves, who were made …
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Part of story: Ngāti Ruanui
… just two when his father died, and the boy's childhood and teenage years were marked by the family's struggle to stay … or Java. Seamer applied, but because of his age was sent instead to New Zealand, in 1897. After training at Gisborne he …
Type: Biography
… Maraea Mōrete, also known as Maria Morris, is said to have been born on … of Puihi and William Morris. Puihi was a woman of mana of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki , the people of the Tūranga plain, … Mōrete, Maraea …
Type: Biography
… Te Aurere The Hōkūle‘a was the first replica canoe of many. … (Hector) Busby from Northland, New Zealand, to build Te Aurere , which made a dramatic voyage to Rarotonga early in the voyaging season in 1992. Navigated by Mau Piailug, Te Aurere was battered by storms for …
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Part of story: Canoe navigation
… his collection of traditional Māori waiata (songs), Ngā m ō teatea , Apirana Ngata noted that women dominated as composers. …
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Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women