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… Whenua – afterbirth The word for the placenta, ‘whenua’, is also the … and the central cord is the iho. The whenua was taken after birth and buried on ancestral whenua, which linked the … Rites and baby care …
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Part of story: Te whānau tamariki – pregnancy and birth
… on Māori involvement in museums was released. It highlighted the continuing challenges for Māori, including their struggle to enter middle and senior curatorial or management positions. The ‘Te Māori’ generation of qualified, museum-focused scholars …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… Hāmiora Mangakāhia, also called Tana and later Piripi, is said to have been born in 1838 at Waikaurau, … which was probably at Whangapoua Harbour on the eastern Coromandel Peninsula. His mother was Rīria Pōau (Pōnau) …
Type: Biography
… early 19th century, Christian missionaries strove to eradicate the so-called ‘war dance’, along with other forms of … of conversion. By the mid-19th century, Māori were competent at singing hymns in harmony. They also appear to have …
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Part of story: Kapa Haka
… Hōne Ngāpua. A direct descendant of Rāhiri, he was connected to the major tribes of the north, but was most closely affiliated to Ngāpuhi through Ngāti Rāhiri, Ngai Tāwake, Ngāti …
Type: Biography
… a profound impact on the way the land is managed and administered. Little land was still in Māori ownership in 1953, when the Maori Affairs Act and Maori Trustee Act were passed. The Māori Trust Office (Te Tari i te …
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Part of story: Farmer and grower organisations
… (the southern part of the South Island) from the death of Te Whakataupuka , probably in 1835, until his own death in … Tauhinu (Inch Clutha), probably early in the nineteenth century. Much of his adult life was spent in movement …
Type: Biography
… legendary in the history of Ngāpuhi. Guided by light reflected from the mountain Te Ramaroa, Kupe entered Hokianga Harbour. The traditions …
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Part of story: Ngāpuhi
… were thought to have descended from the people of the Aotea canoe, whose leader was Turi. It is now believed that … of the North Island; travelling by sea, they landed at Pātea and Waitōtara. They called themselves Te Kāhui Rere (the …
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Part of story: Ngā Rauru Kītahi
… a pantheon of gods and spiritual influences. From the late 1820s Māori transformed their moral practices, religious … a larger proportion of Māori than Britons in the United Kingdom regularly attended services. Te Hāhi Mihinare, the Anglican Church, …
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Part of story: Religion and society
… Tōrere Coastal settlement 23 km north-east of Ōpōtiki on State Highway 35. It is a centre for the Ngāi Tai people. They … connections to the Tainui tribes through Tōrere, the daughter of Hoturoa, commander of the Tainui canoe. Their lands, however, lie between those of two Mataatua tribes, Te Whakatōhea and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui. A finely decorated …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… Hikapuhi (Te Hikapuhi) Poihipi was born at Rotorua probably sometime … was the 10th and youngest child of Wiremu Poihipi and Hārete Ngāputu (also known as Hārete Manuhuia). Her mother, and …
Type: Biography
… Hūria Mātenga was born at Whakapuaka (near Nelson) probably some time between 1840 and 1842. She was named Ngārongoā Kātene at birth, but was also known as Ngā Hota and, in later … Mātenga, Hūria …
Type: Biography
… Arihi Kākano and her husband, Tuta Tāmati, who belonged to Te Aitanga-a-Mate hapū of Ngāti Porou . She also had connections through …
Type: Biography
… Wahanui Huatare, also known as Reihana Te Huatare, Te Reihana Whakahoehoe and Te Wahanui, was born probably in …
Type: Biography
… For several decades after the arrival of Europeans, New Zealand society was in many ways bicultural. However, this balance was temporary. From 1840 until the 1980s, government policies … the partnership between Māori and the Crown established by te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi). …
Type: Story Front
… Rich in the resources needed to sustain human life and located alongside much-used waterways, Hauraki had a turbulent Māori history of migration, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… of pregnancy and childbirth to Māori. The proverb ‘Mate i te tamaiti he aurukōwhao; mate i te wahine he takerehāia’ …
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Part of story: Te whānau tamariki – pregnancy and birth
… Wars and muskets The intertribal wars between 1815 and 1840 were particularly … (Panmure). Many of the tribe's members were killed. Te Kawerau-a-Maki also suffered, with several of their pā … much of the isthmus was abandoned as tribes sought shelter in the Tainui region. Signing the treaty Sixteen chiefs …
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Part of story: Tāmaki tribes
… Rīria was a woman of considerable mana, predominantly of Te Whānau-a-Kai hapū of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, and also of Rongowhakaata. The child …
Type: Biography