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… Pene Taka was a leader of Ngāti Rangi hapū of Ngāti Ranginui iwi at Tauranga, from the 1850s to … confiscation and purchases involving lands claimed by these hapū, they began to interfere with government survey … actions in January and February 1867. The disaffected hapū were driven off into the bush, their houses burnt and …
Type: Biography
… to Te Arawa. On 11 June 2008 the affiliated Te Arawa iwi/hapū settled their historic treaty claims. This settlement, … It included the return to the affiliated Te Arawa iwi/hapū of 19 areas of Crown-owned land. Two smaller iwi …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… agreements. Little land remained in the hands of the seven hapū of Te Whanganui a Orotū by the time of the 1931 Napier … Public Works Act, without compensation. Within 40 years the hapū had lost all their rights and lands. Papawai village …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… Māori settlement and traditions For centuries Māori hapū groupings populated the region, migrating from the … back again as the seasons changed. As the populations of hapū increased and stretched available resources, warfare …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… the tribes of Ngāti Apa and Ngāti Hauiti, the confederated hapū (sub-tribes) of Mōkai Pātea, and the Ngāti Raukawa hapū of Ngāti Parewahawaha. The region developed from the …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… between Tūhoe and their Ngāti Awa kin on the coast, Tūhoe hapū (sub-tribes) travelled long distances to Tāmaki, … in 1856, and to the blood ties between Ngāti Whare (a Tūhoe hapū) and Tainui. Under the leadership of Piripi Te Heuheu …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… Others were kaitiaki, or protectors of iwi (tribes) and hapū (sub-tribes). These ones were respected, and people who …
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Part of story: Taniwha
… was of Ngāti Uekaha and various other Ngāti Maniapoto hapū. Occasionally, he used the English form of his name, … representing groups of nine or more Ngāti Maniapoto hapū, Pēpene conducted their cases, very often successfully. … published Ko te kawenata o Ngāti Maniapoto me ōna hapū maha (the covenant of Ngāti Maniapoto with all its …
Type: Biography
… daughter of Maaka Te Ehutū of Te Whanau-a-Maruhaeremuri, a hapū of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, and his wife, Ruiha Rahuta, of the neighbouring hapū Ngāti Hinekehu. Both her parents were the senior people … to confirm peace and existing boundaries between the two hapū. Mihi was also descended from a leading ancestor of …
Type: Biography
… in Canterbury. Tīkao claimed descent from 21 Ngāi Tahu hapū but was principally of Ngāi Tūahuriri and Ngāti Irakehu … descent. He identified most strongly with Ngāti Irakehu, a hapū which had connections in southern Wairarapa. The Banks … himself and rose above the petty squabbles of runanga and hapū. Above all, he was a source of traditional learning for …
Type: Biography
… Wairoa lands. Te Hata Tīpoki belonged to several hapū of Ngāti Kahungunu of Wairoa: he usually identified with Ngāi Te Apatū, the dominant hapū at Waihīrere marae but was also connected to … daughter of Hōhepa Kahuroa (of Te Whānau-a-Kai, a hapū of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki) and his wife Makuini Honotapu …
Type: Biography
… All other kaitiaki emulate those original ones. Many hapū (sub-tribes) and whānau (families) care for a place …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation
… Tahu example is the wakawaka (boundaries defined between hapū or fishing grounds) … An example of the natural rāhui …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation
… be sung in the 21st century on marae and at other tribal, hapū and whānau gatherings. While the social and political …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Traditional Māori songs – waiata tawhito
… defence, when it usually depended on the iwi (tribe) or hapū (sub-tribe). Tamariki Tamariki (children) and mokopuna …
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Part of story: Tribal organisation
… present, as well as the ritual of dividing the food between hapū and iwi. Dividing the food At hākari a chief would … along and note that a particular pile was for a particular hapū or iwi. An example was given by missionary Richard …
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Part of story: Māori feasts and ceremonial eating – hākari
… lived at Waiōtahe. He conquered the other sections of this hapū to avenge the killing of his father, Rongopopoia. He … of Whakatāne and Ngāti Raumoa, including the Te Ūpokorehe hapū, occupied lands at Waiōtahe and Ōhiwa under Kahuki’s …
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Part of story: Te Whakatōhea
… 129 km from Ōpōtiki on State Highway 35. It is home to the hapū Te Whānau-ā-Tāpaeururangi. It has a school, marae and … through the traditional territory of Te Whānau-ā-Hunaara hapū to East Cape, and a climb of 700 steps, leads to the …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… a farmer, and his wife, Wirapeti Mīkaera of Hāmua, a hapū originally of Rangitāne descent, but through … intermarriage by the nineteenth century often regarded as a hapū of Ngāti Kahungunu. His maternal grandfather, …
Type: Biography
… was of Ngāti Te Rēinga, Ngāti Manawa and Te Kaitūtae, three hapū of Te Rarawa . She is said to have been born on 22 May … Mangakāhia , of Ngāti Whanaunga and other Coromandel hapū. He was an assessor in the Native Land Court, and was …
Type: Biography