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… the iwi (tribe). This usually consisted of several related hapū (clans or descent groups). The hapū of an iwi might sometimes fight each other, but would … The significance of iwi and hapū …
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Part of story: Tribal organisation
… arrived from Hawaiki. The earliest iwi (tribes) and hapū (clans or descent groups) formed as the descendants of … have different accounts of that canoe’s history. Iwi and hapū descended from the same canoe would sometimes act in … an alliance against the intruders. Reasons why new iwi and hapū formed New groups also continuously split off as …
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Part of story: Tribal organisation
… The importance of ancestors Iwi (tribe) and hapū (sub-tribe) names were preceded by a clan prefix such … distinguished themselves from the larger group. New iwi or hapū could emerge at each succeeding generation and take … the East Coast of the North Island, where several iwi and hapū related to Ngāti Porou took their names from female …
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Part of story: Tribal organisation
… Everyone has this framework the structure of whānau, hapū and iwi. You owe it to your whānau your very being … you into a culture. … It is a very deep concept. 2 Whānau, hapū and iwi On its own whānau is incomplete because it is … They thought whānau should always be qualified with hapu and iwi. Separation of whānau, hapū and iwi has …
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Part of story: Whānau – Māori and family
… the structure of Māori society. Within each iwi are many hapū (clans or descent groups), each of which is made up of … a founding ancestor and with the many members of their iwi, hapū and whānau today. …
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… the 19th and 20th centuries, iwi (tribes) began to replace hapū (clans or descent groups) as the main political body. … Government policy actually favoured the shift from hapū to iwi, as the Crown preferred to deal with a small number of regional iwi groups rather than numerous hapū. After 1945, tribal trust boards were formed on an iwi …
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Part of story: Tribal organisation
… rohe (area) there were a variety of competing rights. Hapū (sub-tribes) had main or tūturu (permanent) villages … and resource areas according to the season. Communal rights Hapū or tribal collectives held the land, rather than …
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Part of story: Take whenua – Māori land tenure
… determine status and rank – for example, rangatira of one hapū could be considered senior to rangatira of another hapū if they descended through a senior line. Rangatira … this group and rangatira was not sharp – all members of a hapū or iwi could trace their descent from a common ancestor …
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Part of story: Tūranga i te hapori – status in Māori society
… Whānau and hapū Traditionally Māori worked on a whānau or hapū basis. Much of the daily work activity was based around … such as building a pā, or large-scale fishing, were done by hapū under the leadership of the rangatira. The role of …
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Part of story: Te rāngai mahi – Māori in the workforce
… for generations after their death. Connection with iwi and hapū Although Māori in the 2000s are a highly urbanised … non-Māori society. Each tribe is made up of a number of hapū (sub-tribes), whose members can generally claim descent from a common ancestor. In turn, each hapū is made up of a number of whānau (extended families), …
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Part of story: Māori manners and social behaviour – Ngā mahi tika
… Whānau and hapū Tribally based economies were increasingly undermined … economy. While Māori often continued to work in whānau or hapū groups it was no longer as part of a tribal enterprise. … the country. Shearing was carried out by whānau and hapū. Kauri gum digging was done on both a hapū and …
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Part of story: Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy
… was a seasonal round of activities, done on a whānau or hapū basis. Later, Māori worked as contract labourers and in …
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… his marriages, particularly to Te Utu and Kūmara, whose hapū affiliations allowed a wide range of alliances to be … experienced a good deal of warfare, both between Tūhoe hapū and between Tūhoe hapū and other tribes. Te Ngahuru rose to prominence in this …
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… whenua’ (people of the land), referring to local iwi or hapū, to define themselves as distinct from non-Māori. This … for the same purpose. They include ‘whānau’ (family), ‘hapū’ (sub-tribe) and ‘iwi’ (tribe), together with the specific names of their own hapū and iwi. Māori also identified themselves (and still …
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Part of story: Ngā tuakiri hōu – new Māori identities
… Roles Whānau members have roles on the marae, and with hapū and iwi as well as the whānau. One elder stressed the … to perform them, for example if a person from one marae or hapū could not undertake a role someone from another hapū would. Marae and hapū are pragmatic and if they need a …
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Part of story: Whānau – Māori and family
… Kūhāwaea (Galatea) and Te Whāiti-nui-a-Toi (Te Whāiti). Te Hapū-oneone In addition, Tūhoe trace their descent from the confederation of Te Hapū-oneone. These people were descendants of Hape, who came … to Waimana and over the Taiarahia range to Rūātoki. Te Hapū-oneone consisted of related tribes including Ngāti …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… of the same sex. Rangatira and ariki The chiefs of various hapū (clans or descent groups) within an iwi (tribe) … Tūtūā Tūtūā or commoners were all other members of the hapū who could claim descent from the founding ancestor, but … would split off from the main group to form their own hapū. Taurekareka or mōkai Taurekareka, also known as mōkai, …
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Part of story: Tribal organisation
… is based around Urenui, and Te Āti Awa, with its several hapū (sub-tribes), includes Waitara and New Plymouth. … around the coast are the lands of the Taranaki tribe’s hapū. Just south of Ōpunake, the lands of Ngā Ruahine and … of these devastating raids, many North Taranaki and coastal hapū joined Te Rauparaha and his Ngāti Toa people when they …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… his wife, Rāhera Uruamo of Te Taoū, Ngā Oho and Te Uringutu hapū of Ngāti Whātua . He was baptised in January 1873. … had awarded title of the block to the three Ngāti Whātua hapū to which he belonged, the descendants of those who had … court had established an inalienable trust estate for the hapū. However, it soon became clear that the 13 persons …
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… moko (tattooing expert). Commissioning a tattoo artist If a hapū (sub-tribe) had no tohunga tā moko among its members, … sent out to a tohunga to come and practise their art. The hapū would commission the tohunga with taonga (treasures) … space kept apart from communal areas. In most instances the hapū would construct a temporary structure to house a …
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Part of story: Tā moko – Māori tattooing