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… Polynesian settlers often gave names from the Māui mythological tradition to the New Zealand landscape. Māui is the trickster hero of Polynesian myth, and oral traditions about him … of migration. Māui’s fish The most common tradition tells how Māui fished up land from the sea. The North Island …
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Part of story: Tapa whenua – naming places
… of in-service training courses in Māoritanga for teachers and teacher-training schemes for native speakers of Māori. …
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Part of story: Māori education – mātauranga
… Poverty Bay) Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga (traditional eastern boundary Hawke Bay) Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa … important highways as well as sources of food. Like a river Te Wairoa hōpūpū, hōnengenenge, matangirau Wairoa, full of lumps, unevenness and spite This saying refers to the turbulence and hidden currents …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… the musket-bearing tribes of Ngāpuhi, Hauraki, Waikato, Te Whakatōhea and Tūhoe. Two years later Te Wera Hauraki of Ngāpuhi established himself at Māhia and …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… What are karakia? Karakia are the way people communicate with the gods. Te Rangi Hīroa (Peter Buck) suggested a karakia was ‘a …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori
… along both banks of the Waikato River to Onewhero, above Te Kōhanga. When his father was killed in 1846, Kūkūtai was elected to his place, over his elder brother, Erueti. Kūkūtai's … Kūkūtai, Waata Pihikete …
Type: Biography
… at Waitangi, in the Bay of Islands. They were presented with a treaty by William Hobson, representing the British Crown. Hobson wanted the chiefs to accept British sovereignty, in return for …
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Part of story: Northland region
… Early contact There is no record of the first Tūhoe encounter with Pākehā, but it is possible that Tūhoe were present at or heard of Lieutenant James Cook’s landing at Tūranga (Poverty Bay) in … missionaries began to arrive. Because of their inaccessible territory and the uneasy state of affairs between them and …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… Paratene Ngata was born at Ahikouka, near Waiomatatini, on the East Coast, possibly in September 1849. His father was Wiremu Karaka Te Ito, of … Ngata, Paratene …
Type: Biography
… August 1837, the fourth of the seven children of John (or Waterman) Bent, a shipbuilder and carpenter, of Nova Scotian origin, and his wife, Eliza Bagley (or …
Type: Biography
… of the Māori King movement, the lush Waikato region is the territory of numerous tribes descended from the people of … as a widow named many landmarks on a journey of grieving; Te Puea, founder of the Tūrangawaewae marae; and the late queen, Dame Te Atairangikaahu. …
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… the founder of a Māori religious movement which, in the late 1920s, also became a major political movement. He was the latest in a line of prophetic descent which included Te Ua …
Type: Biography
… Enid Marguerite Hamilton Kelly was born in Hamilton on 12 September 1903. Her father, Arnold Joseph Kelly, was a … Tapsell, Enid Marguerite Hamilton …
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… Tene Waitere belonged to Ngāti Tarāwhai, who were kin to Ngāti Pikiao and Tūhourangi of Te Arawa of Rotorua. His mother was Ani Pape, the daughter … Waitere, Tene …
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… ‘Kia mau tonu ki tēnā; kia mau ki te kawau mārō. Whanake ake! Whanake ake!’ ‘Stick to that, … Maniapoto to his people. Such strength of purpose characterises much of their history, including their early economic success, protecting the King Country, and preserving their culture. …
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… Mingiroa, in the Rangitīkei district. In both places he acted as a station manager for Major William Trafford. Mt Biggs, near the Mingiroa station, is probably named after him. He gained a reputation locally as an excellent …
Type: Biography
… 1980s, the tribunal underwent significant change. It adopted a bicultural approach to its inquiries, and its … also issued a number of landmark reports that reflected its growing importance as an institution. Bicultural …
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Part of story: Waitangi Tribunal – Te Rōpū Whakamana
… Richard Tahuora Hīmona was born at Te Ore Ore, near Masterton, on 7 September 1905. He was the son of Arapata Hīmona, a farmer, and …
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… 1940s. The oldest of the church-run boarding schools started as mission schools, including St Stephen’s School, Auckland (Anglican, founded in 1844), Wesley College, Auckland (Methodist, 1844) and Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay (Anglican, 1854). Hukarere …
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Part of story: Māori education – mātauranga
… waiata and stories A significant body of waiata was collected, translated and annotated as part of the four-book series Ngā m …
Type: Story Page