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… been born about 1825. His parents were Ātareta Tuha, the sister of Āpihai Te Kawau , and Whanararei, from Te Taou hapū of Ngāti …
Type: Biography
… which had previously just meant dog. A Tūhoe chief, Te Maitaranui, described these new beasts to his people as … dogs). However, the most common name was hōiho, a transliteration of horse. An 1875 Māori-language advertisement for …
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Part of story: Hōiho – horses and iwi
… Signing the treaty The chief Āpihai Te Kawau signed the Treaty of Waitangi at Manukau Harbour on 20 March 1840. He did so after inviting Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson to live in …
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Part of story: Ngāti Whātua
… and a tohunga (ritual expert). A large war party would often travel to battle in a waka taua (literally a war party canoe). There were various names for … Strategies and battle terms …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori warfare – Riri
… had found that during the 19th century the Crown had acted unfairly toward Māori tribes in Taranaki. In response to this finding the Ngāti Ruanui Muru me te Raupatu Working Party was elected to negotiate a treaty …
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Part of story: Ngāti Ruanui
… parents had been taken there as captives by Ngāti Raukawa after a battle at Te Roto-a-Tara in Hawke's Bay. His mother was Te Ahiahi of …
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… Minarapa Rangihatuake (also known as Minarapa Te Atua-kē) was the Wesleyan lay preacher responsible for … was of Ngā Māhanga and was born, probably early in the nineteenth century, in Taranaki. As a young man, Minarapa was … to the liberation of Ngāpuhi captives, a number who had adopted Christianity went to reside at the mission stations. …
Type: Biography
… By the late 19th century the hopelessness felt by Ngāti Apa because … by tribes throughout the country. Poverty and associated illness, and demoralisation resulted in declining …
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Part of story: Ngāti Apa
… 650-hectare Lake Ōnoke, to the south. Lake Ōnoke is separated from the open sea of Palliser Bay by a 3-km gravel spit. Originally, Lake Ōnoke’s mouth at the eastern end of the spit opened and closed in response to …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… in Palermo, Sicily. They had 11 children: 4 sons and 7 daughters. Shortland died at Plympton, near Plymouth, Devon, on 1 July 1893. He was educated at Exeter Grammar School, Harrow and Pembroke College, …
Type: Biography
… shift of many Māori from rural communities to the cities after the Second World War produced two major responses from … who, as head tutor at the Māori Arts and Crafts Institute, strongly resisted deviation from the ‘classical’ model. …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… came to Taranaki about 1250–1300 CE. These migrants from eastern Polynesia found a heavily forested land, rich in natural resources. The earliest people … at the mouths of South Taranaki streams have been investigated by archaeologists. Since the 1840s, the beaches near the …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… the Ōtākou whaling station in 1831, and Nīkuru, the daughter of Te Mātenga Taiaroa and Hine-i-whāriua of Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti …
Type: Biography
… 1840s: European settlers The invading hapū were attracted by the prospect of fruitful contact with European ships … but it had only lapped at the edge of the region by 1870. Te Rauparaha and Te Whatanui The leader of the Tainui invaders was Te …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region
… The East Coast region is home to the related tribes of Ngāti Porou, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata and Ngāi Tāmanuhiri … inhabits the area between Pōtikirua in the north and Te Toka–a-Taiau (a rock that once stood in the mouth of the …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… Conflicts with related neighbouring tribes led to the spread of influence of … Ngata as Ngā Uri o Toi. Among them were: Ruawaipū (later Ngāi Tuere), in the territory north of the Maraehara valley to Te Araroa and …
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Part of story: Ngāti Porou
… Kāwhia Township on the north-western shore on Kāwhia Harbour, 50 kilometres north-west of … around Kāwhia Harbour. Famous 19th-century Ngāti Toa chief Te Raupahara grew up at Kāwhia, but he and his people were expelled by Waikato and Ngāti Maniapoto forces after he killed a Waikato chief. European traders arrived in …
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Part of story: King Country places
… Hēnare Mōkena Kōhere was born on 10 March 1880 at Te Araroa, East Cape. He was the fourth child of Hōne Hiki … Hinekukurangi, was of Ngāti Piritai of Ngāi Tūitimatua and Te Whānau-a-Tūwhakairiora. Hēnare received his education at …
Type: Biography
… In its first two decades (1960–80), New Zealand television’s potential to achieve a Māori presence and voice was stifled. … Māori television …
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Part of story: Television
… Ngāwaka, a farmer, and his mother, Ngāneko Mare (Murray), later known as Mary Ngāhemo Ngāwaka, were both of Te Rarawa . Naru was a descendant of Ruanui and Nukutawhiti …
Type: Biography