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… Despite continuing poor health, Kīngi was a good student, liking music and books. His closest school friend, Eddie … leaving school Kīngi Īhaka joined the Native Department, working as a clerk in Auckland and Te Kao from 1939 to 1942. … priest in Rangiātea, the Anglican Māori church at Ōtaki, and retained his post as curate at St Matthew’s until …
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… Native Land Court, where he not only represented his own kin, but was invited to conduct cases as far afield as … By the end of the preliminary session Mangakāhia, working alone, had prepared all the documents for the first … that a petition be sent to the colonial parliament asking that all legislation on Māori land and people cease, …
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… Nireaha Tāmaki was born at Te Pākawau on the Manawatū River probably between 1835 and 1837. His father was Matiu Tāmaki, a descendant of high rank of Rangitāne and Hāmua; … hapū were Hāmua and Ngāti Mutuahi, and he was also kin to Ngāti Kapakapa, Ngāti Te Wānanga, Ngāti Matangiuru …
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… His mother was Pareraukawa, elder sister of Hape or Hape-ki-tūārangi of Ngāti Raukawa and Ngāti Huia. Hape died at … had led the first migration of his people to Taranaki about 1821, he returned to attempt to recruit allies to … in 1821, Te Whatanui urged Ngāti Whakaue and Tūhourangi to kill any Ngāpuhi they might meet, because Whetūroa, his …
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… Tiakitai was a Ngāti Kahungunu leader of great mana in the … chief of Ngāti Te Ūpokoiri and Ngāti Hinemanu during Tiakitai's childhood. The hapū with which Tiakitai was most closely associated was Ngāti Kurukuru, … Tiakitai …
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… His sister was Hera Te Miha, possibly also known as Hine-ki-te-rangi; Pūhara and Taiāwhio Te Tau were his … Wairarapa leaders to the third Kotahitanga session at Pākirikiri, Poverty Bay. They asked for financial support for a …
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… Te Kaeaea was a chief of Ngāti Tama of northern Taranaki. He was born in the later eighteenth century; his father was Whangataki II and his mother, Hinewairoro; Te Pūoho-o-te-rangi was … early 1820s Te Kaeaea was overshadowed by Raparapa and Tūpoki; after their deaths in battle in 1821, Te …
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… by Te Hauwaho of Ngāti Te Whatu-i-apiti and Te Wera Hauraki of Ngāpuhi came to Heretaunga to avenge the killing of Te Hauwaho's brother, Hungahunga, by Ngāti Te … They landed at Ahuriri (Napier) and attacked Ngāti Hāwea, killing many. Te Moananui himself only just escaped the …
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… Wheao was born at Ōmanaia, a small settlement in southern Hokianga, on 6 June 1924. Her parents were unmarried. Her … foster family to Motutī, a remote settlement in northern Hokianga. There she was raised Catholic, attended the Motutī … engaged, and Betty was soon pregnant. Sadly, Charles was killed in action in the Pacific at the age of 22. Betty, who …
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… Davis, of Welsh and Irish descent. Te Riutoto was of Ngāti Kinohaku and Ngāti Te Kanawa hapū of Ngāti Maniapoto. John … his mother's Māori looks. Following the opening up of the King Country to European settlement in the early 1880s, much … farm’s produce by wagon to the railway station in Hangatiki six miles away. Edward assisted his father to drive …
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… troops in the northern wars. His ancestral waka were Ngā-toki-mata-whao-rua, Māmari, Mamaru, Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi, Mātaatua, Tainui, Tākitimu, Horouta and Te Arawa, indicating his links to …
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… the daughter of Oriwia Hawea (Ngāti Raukawa) and John Piuraki Rehu (Ngāi Tahu), was born at Arowhenua, South … Erihapeti said of her tūrakawaewae : ‘My spot is from Moeraki north to Tuahiwi, Kaiapoi, Kaikōura, and Aoraki was central to our life.’ 1 At birth her name was …
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… years from 1845 he served on the staff of I. K. Brunel, working on the Great Western railway in the south of England. … bound for New Zealand and intending to settle in Taranaki. An aunt, Helen, married to John Hursthouse, was already … Other Richmonds were expected to follow, as well as Atkinsons, with one of whom, John Staines, James had worked on …
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… to Tamakaimoana of Maungapōhatu, Te Whakatōhea of Ōpōtiki and Ngāi Tūterangi of Tūhourangi, Te Arawa. His mother, Emeria or Meri Maraki of Waimana, was connected to Te Arawa and to Ngāi Tūranga … came under the tutelage of his famous uncle, Te Whiu Maraki, in the traditional martial arts of the Māori warrior. He …
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… Hauraki was the son of Kaitara, a principal leader of Ngāti … Hineira and Te Uri Taniwha, of Ngāpuhi. In his youth Hauraki lived in Pukenui pā, Te Ahuahu, in the Bay of Islands. … was Inu, of Ngāti Pou; it is possible that she was Hauraki's mother. As young men Hauraki and his brother, Te …
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… He was the third and youngest son of the chief Te Ruki Kawiti and his wife, Kawa. His two elder brothers were … home. The chieftainship of Ngāti Hine passed from Te Ruki Kawiti to Maihi soon after his father's death in 1854. Maihi's eldest brother, Taura, had been killed in battle, and although there were those among Ngāti …
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… see the world in a painterly way: as a composition of striking colour and form, clean lines and great depth of field. … for the German émigré landscape designer Odo Strewe, raking lawns, weeding and picking up building debris. Landscape architecture was not yet …
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… and write Māori under missionary tutelage. His literacy skills were combined with a thirst for knowledge which he … the Bay of Plenty, and in places such as Ōtorohanga in the King Country. Experience with land dealings, surveyors and … of his living as a native agent. It was probably while working with survey parties that Takaanui Tarakawa encountered …
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… Winipere married twice: Takamoana's father was Tinikirunga, of Rangitāne and Ngāti Kahungunu descent; he … was said to have been born in Wairarapa. Te Meihana Tākihi was Takamoana's brother. Hēnare Tomoana and Pene Te … a force of northern tribes led by Mananui Te Heuheu Tukino II of Ngāti Tūwharetoa. He was one of the Heretaunga …
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… Te Arikinui, Dame Te Atairangikaahu was the first woman chosen to lead the Kīngitanga (the Māori king movement). She served as Māori queen for over 40 years, … under the Treaty of Waitangi. Childhood and education Pikimene Korokī Mahuta, later known as Te Atairangikaahu, was …
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