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… Māori society and was carried out by tohunga and matakite (seers). The transition from the traditional form of … Toiroa. He said: Tiwha tiwha te pō Ko te Pakerewhā Ko Arikirangi tēnei rā te haere nei. (Dark, dark is the night/There is the Pakerewhā/There is Arikirangi to come.) 1 This prophecy foreshadowed the coming of …
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Part of story: Māori prophetic movements – ngā poropiti
… It is said that the chief Manaia landed the canoe Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi at Motu Kōkako, the famous hole in the rock at … further south, his opponent, the Ngāi Tahu leader Tūhawaiki, had a home on Ruapuke Island, off present-day Bluff. … Island resources The islands around Stewart Island (Rakiura) were an important harvesting ground for tītī …
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Part of story: Nearshore islands
… with the seasons. For example, the pre-dawn rising of Matariki (the Pleiades cluster) signalled both the Māori new year … June and the end of the harvest. One saying was ‘Matariki ahunga nui’ (Matariki, provider of plentiful food). The sea was very important …
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Part of story: Kōrero taiao
… captained by Kupe Kurahaupō , captained by Pōhurihanga Ngātokimatawhaorua , captained by Nukutawhiti Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi , captained by Rongomai and Whakatau. The main … Tūmoana's descendants spread throughout the northern Hokianga and eastward to Maunga Taniwha. Tūmoana later …
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Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes
… It sits inside the two canoe boundaries of Horouta and Tākitimu. The traditional Horouta canoe territory is from Te … Act 1987, Ngāti Porou’s internal boundaries are from Pōtikirua in the north to Te Toka a Taiau in the south. The … the survivors of the Te Huripūreiata massacre in Hawaiki. The ancient name of Hikurangi is also found in Rarotonga …
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Part of story: Ngāti Porou
… Kapowairua, Pārengarenga Harbour, and Murimotu. Ngātokimatawhaorua and Māmari After the Polynesian explorer Kupe returned to Hawaiki his canoe, Matawhaorua , was re-adzed and renamed Ngātokimatawhaorua (ngā toki – the adzes) by its new captain, …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… Bennett, ‘E tipu, e rea, mo nga ra o tou ao, ko to ringa ki nga rakau a te Pakeha hei ora mo te tinana, ko to ngakau ki nga taonga a o tipuna Maori hei tikitiki mo to mahuna, a ko to wairua ki to Atua, nana nei nga …
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Part of story: Ngā tamariki
… (son), Rongomaipāpā (daughter), Tamatea-kōtā (son), Mahakinui (son) and Tauheikurī (daughter). There is only one … (sons of Kahungunu’s cousin Haumanga) had set out from Ōpōtiki with 500 warriors and engaged in a series of battles on … and acknowledged that he was indeed not as good looking as his brother. That pool has ever since been called Te …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… a week, with a focus on grammar and written Māori. Ruatoki Bilingual School opened in 1978, and by 1980 there were … by Egyptian educationalist Caleb Gattegno for Māori. Working with Ngoingoi Pēwhairangi, Mataira trained a number of … commented, ‘Whānau ana te tamaiti, me rarau atu, whakamau ki te ū, kei reira ka tīmata ki te kōrero Māori (when the …
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Part of story: Te reo Māori – the Māori language
… te maire o ngā kōrero? Where is the maire of the speechmaking? Affection A mother often sang this song while nursing a child. Taku hei piripiri Taku hei mokimoki Taku hei tāwhiri Taku kati taramea 1 My little …
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Part of story: Te Waonui a Tāne – forest mythology
… kautāhoe (sidestroke), kau āpuru (breaststroke), kau kiore (backstroke) and kau tāwhai (crawl). Kautāhoe was … expedition, and paddled back to their kāinga on Rangitoto ki te Tonga (D’Urville Island in the Marlborough Sounds). … races were known as kau whakataetae. Whakakau was a karakia to help with swimming. Competitions were held to see who …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori games – ngā tākaro
… Tūhoe people: Tūhoe moumou kai Moumou taonga Moumou tangata ki te Pō. Tūhoe wasteful of food Wasteful of treasures … Hapū-oneone occupying the district from Whakatāne to Ōpōtiki. Also established were Ngāi Tūranga in the Rūātoki and Ōpouriao districts, Ngā Pōtiki at Ruatāhuna and …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… Today there are six tribes in the wider Tāmaki (Auckland) region: Ngāti Pāoa on Waiheke Island; Ngāi Tai … Oho at Māngere; Ngāti Te Ata at Manukau; and Te Kawerau-a-Maki in the Waitākere Ranges. Waitangi Tribunal reports and … released three reports concerning tribes in the Tāmaki region. The Waiheke report stated that Ngāti Pāoa had …
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Part of story: Tāmaki tribes
… King Pōtatau was succeeded by his son, Tāwhiao , who was proclaimed king on 5 July 1860 at Ngāruawāhia. Wiremu Tāmihana … Grey famously declared that ‘I shall not fight against [the king] with the sword, but I shall dig round him till he …
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Part of story: Kīngitanga – the Māori King movement
… Ngāti Tūwharetoa convened a famous meeting known as Hīnana ki uta, Hīnana ki tai (search the land, search the sea) at Pūkawa, on the … famed rangatira of Waikato, Pōtatau Te Wherowhero , for the kingship. In 1841 Governor William Hobson had reported to …
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Part of story: Kīngitanga – the Māori King movement
… Tākina Puanga Ko Puanga kei runga Ko Puanga e Rangi Tākina mai te ara o Puanganui-o-te-rangi Tākina ngā pou o te …
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Part of story: Matariki – Te Tau Hou Māori
… of respect were integral to the practice of fishing. Karakia (incantations) were offered to Tangaroa, god of the sea, … fish. Mohi Ruatapu of the Ngāti Porou tribe cites this karakia, chanted to inspire Tangaroa: Kuku, kuku ika, kuku wehiwehi, Takina ko koe nā, te iho o ika, Te iho o Tangaroa – Uara ki …
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Part of story: Te hī ika – Māori fishing
… and interests. Most of these voluntary groups were not kin-based but had a common purpose of perpetuating Māori … their tribal domain, and reinforce tribal identity. Looking after your own John Rangihau, an elder of Tūhoe, … city later than most …We believed that these young Māori kids who were so lonely in the cities needed to know that …
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Part of story: Urban Māori
… in the south. There is a saying, ‘Ko te tomokanga o te iwi ki te tonga, ki Tokorangi’ – the southern gateway to Tūwharetoa is at … tribes to turn from war to peace. Commemorating the king Pūkawa, on the shores of Lake Taupō, is seen as the …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… settlers also encroaching on ancestral lands in Taranaki, return migrations took place. About 600 Te Āti Awa went back to Taranaki in 1848. More Māori returned to Taranaki during the land wars there in the 1860s. The Te Āti Awa …
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Part of story: Te Āti Awa of Wellington