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… (between Tōrere and Hāwai) to Pōtaka. The 13 hapū are situated along the narrow coastal strip between the …
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Part of story: Te Whānau-ā-Apanui
… the use of money. The basic Māori economic unit – the hapū – was largely self-sufficient. There was specialisation of activity (division of labour) inside the hapū. Māori lived in a subsistence economy, but they were …
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Part of story: Economic history
… people whose children have grown up strengthening whānau, hapū or iwi ties by strategically placing children within … open. It was done with the full knowledge of the whānau or hapū, and the child knew both their birth parents and …
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Part of story: Whāngai – customary fostering and adoption
… Ūpoko of the middle reaches and Tūpoho of the lower river. Hapū (sub-tribes) of the Waimarino district also identify … te awa. Ko te awa ko au' (I am the river. The river is me). Hapū of Ngā Rauru regard various hills and rivers in their …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… are mostly named for ancestors of the various whānau and hapū who belong to the marae. The wharenui is the place … the importance of the marae to its people the names of the hapū that are affiliated to the marae (there may be several) … of the marae are (mostly those who are related to the named hapū, but sometimes also their spouses, whāngai and adopted …
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Part of story: Marae management – te whakahaere marae
… and regular trading patterns amongst their own whānau and hapū, within their iwi, and between iwi. Early Māori trade … products which were exchanged over long distances by hapū and iwi. Coastal Māori offered kaimoana (seafood), and …
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Part of story: Ngā umanga – Māori business enterprise
… Tribunal. They can be an individual, or represent a group, hapū or iwi. A claim must allege that a particular law, … to include the traditional history of the claimants’ iwi, hapū or whānau (and in district inquiries, their tribal rohe …
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Part of story: Waitangi Tribunal – Te Rōpū Whakamana
… (also known as Mere Te Iwa Te Rerehau). The principal hapū of the Te Heuheu line was Ngāti Tūrumakina, based at … Lake Taupō. Hoani Te Heuheu was related to other southern hapū of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, and through his mother had kin links to northern hapu, and to Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Raukawa. Hoani was …
Type: Biography
… Traditionally Māori society was based around whānau, hapū and iwi. European settlement from the 19th century saw … treaty. In the treaty it was named Te Whakaminenga o nga Hapu o Nu Tirani (Confederation of the United Tribes of New …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations
… whakapapa, spirituality and the responsibility to marae and hapū. The historical whānau Early anthropologists had a … traced through links on both sides (the middle tier was hapū and the highest tier was iwi). Historical, traditional …
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Part of story: Whānau – Māori and family
… often gifted horses to chiefs as a sign of goodwill. Hapū (sub-tribes) banded together to buy horses, paying for … travel faster, and probably helped bring neighbouring hapū and iwi (tribes) closer together. From the 1840s, some …
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Part of story: Hōiho – horses and iwi
… its mana in the Taupō region. Intertribal and inter-hapū warfare Ngāti Tūwharetoa history tells of many battles with other tribes and among their own hapū (sub-tribes) until the 19th century. Ngāti Whiti, Ngāti …
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Part of story: Ngāti Tūwharetoa
… but he was principally of Te Rarawa. He was kin to the hapū Ngāti Hinerakei and Ngāi Tūmamao, but was most closely associated with Ngāti Haua hapū. On 21 November 1894 at Whāngāpē he married Maraea … of Ngāti Haua caused most of the leading families of the hapū to change denominations. In 1923 they crossed the …
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… father she was affiliated to many of the Ngāti Kahungunu hapū resident in south Wairarapa, including Ngāti Hinewaka, … to Ngāti Maniapoto, South Island Ngāi Tahu, and Ngāti Kauhi hapū of Ngāti Kahungunu, resident at Papawai. Later in life … Kaihau was to be strongly identified with Ngāti Hinewaka hapū of Ngāti Kahungunu. During her youth Kaihau probably …
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… grandfather was Tuperiri, principal leader of Te Taoū hapū of Ngāti Whātua who overran the Auckland isthmus around … the Waiōhua who became the Nga Oho and Te Uringutu hapū of Ngāti Whātua. Thus Te Kawau, the inheritor of … in Taranaki between their ally Tūkorehu and some Te Āti Awa hapū. Other Te Āti Awa helped the war party to escape to …
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… or Taruheru in Poverty Bay. She belonged to Te Whānau-a-Iwi hapū of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki . Her mother was Ūaia (Ūwaia), … as Kaitī, and who had married a woman of the Ngāi Tāwhiri hapū of Rongowhakaata. Riperata had an older half-sister … many blocks, on her own behalf and on behalf of her family, hapū and tribe. Her actions were motivated by the desire to …
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… grandchildren. They are the ancestors from whom many of the hapū of today are descended and take their names, such as … that marriage was born Rōrā, ancestor of the Ngāti Rōrā hapū who settled the Te Kūiti district. Te Kawairirangi The …
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Part of story: Ngāti Maniapoto
… their puhi (virgin) status was jealously guarded by the hapū so they could be betrothed to a suitable suitor from … through their whakapapa. They were nominated by the hapū to ensure there was a woman of mana to represent them …
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Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… for sharks and other fish were often organised on a hapū (sub-tribe) or iwi basis. Nets could be up to a …
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Part of story: Te mahi kai – food production economics
… arts) and touch football matches. This is a time when the hapū (sub-tribes) of Muaūpoko can come together and …
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Part of story: Muaūpoko