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… sing it at the opening of the carved meeting house Te Hono ki Rarotonga at Tokomaru Bay in January 1934. Other … Materoa, who had joined the army, and ‘Arohaina mai e te Kingi Nui’. This second song, written in 1940 following a … to be appointed a teacher specialising in Māori culture, working with all schools that taught Māori children from Te …
Type: Biography
… Pouaka Winikerei, a carpenter, and his mother Rangitaau Paraki. The family moved to Raungawari, near Pukekawa, in 1910. … near Mercer. He became as one of her adopted children, taking part with her in the revived Pai Mārire religion, and … she moved to Ngāruawāhia in 1921 to create a centre for the King movement. He helped clear the gorse and blackberry from …
Type: Biography
… principal chief of Ngāti Te Ūpokoiri, and his son Tūhotoariki. Rāniera's parents, Te Kere of Ngāti Mahuika hapū of … Mangatoetoe and with Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Kurapare at Kirikiritatangi, Rāniera was living with Ngāti Hinepare at Te …
Type: Biography
… tribunal with a director, Wira Gardiner (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pikiao, Whakatōhea and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) being the first. … that the investigation into a claim could favour those taking part and overlook the rights and claims of other iwi … first tribunal inquiry under this system was for the Mōhaka ki Ahuriri district in Hawke’s Bay. Direct negotiation The …
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Part of story: Waitangi Tribunal – Te Rōpū Whakamana
… and Ngāti Kahu, and Pimia (Nen) Wehi of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Te Whakatōhea and Te Whānau-a-Apanui led … in 1936. In 1969 Pita Sharples of Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Te Kikiri o te Rangi and Ngāti Pāhauwera set up Te Rōpū Manutaki …
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Part of story: Kapa Haka
… popular success. Although she had highly developed written skills in te reo Māori, she was not a fluent speaker. Quietly … she attracted criticism for being a Pākehā academic working on Māori subject matter. Early life and interest in te … house in the country’ over the course of two years, taking photographs of the artwork that adorned the wharenui. 1 …
Type: Biography
… Himiona Tūpākihi Kāmira, sometimes known as Tākou, was born in 1880 at Reena in north-western Hokianga. He was to live there, or at Mātihetihe, on the coast south of Mitimiti, most of his life. His father, Tūpākihi Kāmira, also known as Raukohe, was the son of Kāmira …
Type: Biography
… Kirihi Te Riri Maihi Kawiti was born, according to family … and his third wife, Hēningārino, and the grandson of Te Ruki Kawiti , the Ngāpuhi warrior chief. Kirihi was a baptismal name; his full birth name was Te … Kawiti, Kirihi Te Riri Maihi …
Type: Biography
… to New Zealand where its main occupations were road making and garrison duties. Russell joined it there as … 1860 was gazetted captain and transferred to the 14th (Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot, with which he returned to … England, William Russell had married Harriette Julia Hodgskin of Sherenden, Sussex, who was to bear seven sons and …
Type: Biography
… the local railway line, the women occupied a goods shed at Kiwi station (near Glenhope) to stop its demolition. As news … Tuaiwa (Eva) Rickard (Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Toa, Tainui, Taranaki) led a sit-in at the Raglan golf course. The land had … In January 1977 protesters occupied former Ngāti Whātua ki Ōrākei land that the government had compulsorily …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Public protest
… Te Rohu was the daughter of Mananui Te Heuheu Tūkino II and his senior wife, Nohopapa. She was born in the … hapū of her father was Ngāti Pēhi (now Ngāti Tūrumakina) of Ngāti Tūwharetoa , but he also had kinship ties with Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Raukawa. To …
Type: Biography
… Love and Mere Rure Te Hikanui, a rangatira of the Taranaki iwi. Eruera Love was a descendant of the whānau of the … be passed on to their eldest child, Rio Rangatira Mokoroa ki Aitu Love. In 1931, after the birth of their third … principally to house and accommodate relations from Taranaki who came to Wellington to pursue land issues. The opening …
Type: Biography
… He succeeded Hōri Kīngi Te Ānaua in 1868 as the highest-ranking leader among the lower Wanganui tribes. Mete Kīngi's … intervened among Te Arawa in Rotorua, and in 1854 in Taranaki. When hostilities broke out in 1857 in Heretaunga … return to his ancestral lands. In this period he attended King movement meetings, including the great meeting at …
Type: Biography
… was a leader of Ngāti Rua, a hapū of Te Whakatōhea of Ōpōtiki. His father was Charles Frederick Leggett, an Englishman who arrived to settle in Ōpōtiki probably in the 1840s. Mākawa and Leggett married in … Tuakana the family included his elder brother, Te Riaki, and a sister who was sent to Sydney, New South Wales, to …
Type: Biography
… Īhāia Hūtana was born at Poroutāwhao, near Ōtaki, probably in 1843 or 1844. His parents had been taken … a hapū of both Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne descent with kin links to earlier Hawke's Bay descent groups. Te Hūtana … Īhāia's mother did not live long after his birth. She had kinship links to Ngāti Raukawa, and for her sake they …
Type: Biography
… and also had important links to the senior lines of Ngāti Pakiua. Through Pakiua's descent from Tūmapuhiārangi, Hēnare had kin links to the people of Waimarama to the north and …
Type: Biography
… Te Pūoho-o-te-rangi, also known as Te Pūoho-ki-te-rangi, Ngārau, and Te Manu, was born possibly in the … the tribal homeland of Ngāti Tama, in northern Taranaki. He was the eldest son of Whangataki II (his father) and Hinewairoro (his mother). There were …
Type: Biography
… a contemporary of Nuku-pewapewa and Pēhi Tū-te-pākihi-rangi. His mother was Mere Te Kiri Maihi from Wanganui. He traced his descent from Te … Rerewai-i-te-rangi from Tokomaru Bay. In 1841 Pēhi Tū-te-pākihi-rangi brought him home to Wairarapa. At this time …
Type: Biography
… uncles included Karaitiana Takamoana , Te Meihana Tākihi and Pene Te Uamairangi, all of whom were prominent … Ao, Ngāti Hinepare, and Ngāti Hinetewai. With such high-ranking parents, Paraire was destined for leadership. As a … and problems in Māori newspapers, beginning with Te Puke ki Hikurangi. From 1900 he served as a lay delegate to Māori …
Type: Biography
… viewed and preserved. Yet she always held to the whakataukī: ‘E kore te kūmara e kī ana mō tōna ake reka’ (It is not for the kūmara to say …
Type: Biography