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… husband, Joseph Davis, a cutler. His parents named him after the Irish patriot leader Oliver Bond. On the death of … great facility in Māori. In 1840 Charles Davis assisted in the meetings at Hokianga at which the Treaty of …
Type: Biography
… Loss of musical traditions After European settlement, a number of factors led to the … became rare, they were acquired by museums and private collectors, and later generations of Māori did not learn …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori musical instruments – taonga puoro
… Ernest Roberton, a prominent medical practitioner. Educated at King’s College, Auckland, Jim excelled not only academically, but also in rugby and athletics. After leaving school he went on to the University of Cambridge … in France from August 1915, and in Italy. In 1918, as a lieutenant, he was made a DSO for leading his men through barbed …
Type: Biography
… The Tākitimu arrived from Hawaiki, captained by Tamatea Arikinui. Having decided to settle in the Tauranga area, … Pōtiki. A senior tohunga on the canoe, Ruawharo, settled at Te Māhia. The Tākitimu travelled up the Wairoa River and … Pōtiki left some descendants here, who became Ngāi Tahu of Te Wairoa. Tūpai, another tohunga on the canoe, settled in …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… Protest movements and flags From the 1970s protest movements began displaying flags as symbols of protest. This was particularly significant at Waitangi Day … Flags and protest …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā haki – Māori and flags
… Te Whakatōhea exercised mana over a 35-km stretch of coastline in the eastern Bay of Plenty, from Ōhiwa Harbour to Ōpape. The western boundary is Maraetōtara at Ōhope, and the eastern …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te Whakatōhea
… Maniapoto women as their wives. Pākehā–Māori unions Louis Hetet was a settler with an English mother and French … father who married a Maniapoto woman. He first visited New Zealand around 1835 on a whaling ship, and returned in 1842 to settle at Paripari (near Te Kūiti). He married Te Rangituatahi, daughter of the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāti Maniapoto
… Louis Wellington Parore was born at Te Houhanga marae, Dargaville, on 26 December 1888. … in a European-style house and was known to his family as Te Rūma (the room), although he was more generally known as …
Type: Biography
… The post-baby-boomer Māori writers of fiction in the 2000s expanded on the range of … Inspiration James George began writing seriously in 1995 after ‘an epiphany, when my mother's death came as a reminder … A new breed of writers …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori fiction – ngā tuhinga paki
… Materoa Ngārimu was born at Maraeke, Whareponga, on the East … descent of the leading hapū of Ngāti Porou, which included Te Aitanga-a-Mate, Te Whānau-a-Rākairoa, Te Aowera, Te … Reedy, Materoa …
Type: Biography
… in the central North Island are within the tribal area of Te Arawa and Ngāti Tūwharetoa. Traditions about this … trace its origin to Ngātoroirangi, a tohunga (priest) on Te Arawa canoe. He was freezing on Mt Tongariro and called out to his sisters to bring fire to New Zealand from Hawaiki, the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te tāpoi Māori – Māori tourism
… Early biculturalism Before te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi) was signed in … was bicultural, because both peoples were able to operate within each other’s cultures. Over time, Māori …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Biculturalism
… is of great importance, and many tribes are at pains to cite a relationship to him. It is said that his wife, Kuramārōtini, devised the name of Ao-tea-roa (‘long white cloud’) on seeing the North Island for …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: First peoples in Māori tradition
… normally straddles two calendar months. Māori needed a system that matched lunar months with the solar year – a lunar year is around 11 days shorter. Some tribes listed 13 months in their lunar year, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Maramataka – the lunar calendar
… Tāmati Ngākaho was of Te Whānau-a-Rāhui of Ngāti Porou , from Rākaihoea at … facts about his life have been recorded, but he is celebrated as a leading exponent of the style of carving that had …
Type: Biography
… as the First World War and the depression of the 1930s. After the Second World War, people left their traditional … areas and moved to the cities. In 1975, Ngāti Raukawa initiated a 25-year tribal development plan entitled … of marae and the Māori language, and the establishment of Te Wānanga-o-Raukawa, the tribe’s centre of higher learning …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāti Raukawa
… Ōtene Pītau is said to have been born in 1834 or 1835. His … who settled at Muriwai, Poverty Bay, with a woman of Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki named Pirihira Konekone. Pirihira became … Pītau, Ōtene …
Type: Biography
… goods around the country. But the rocky rivers and hilly terrain limited the places where canoes could be used. To travel any …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Walking tracks
… Cosmology The whakapapa (genealogy) of kiore is associated with kūmara (sweet potato). Rongo-māui stole celestial … and brought them back to earth in his scrotum. He impregnated his wife Pani, who gave birth to earthly kūmara. She …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kiore – Pacific rats
… Haimona (Simon) Pātete (also known as Haimona Turi) was born on Rangitoto … Pātete, Haimona …
Type: Biography