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… as 1907 Te Rangi Hīroa had foreshadowed this problem, making a plea for Māori elders to pass on their knowledge: … ka mau tonu ai a tatou korero, ka mahue iho ai hei koha ki nga uri e tipu ake nei, kei moumou te hari atu a nga kaumatua ki te reinga a ka mahue kupu kore matou nga mokopuna. (Do …
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Part of story: Kaumātua – Māori elders
… Rangitoto ki te Tonga (D’Urville Island) Large island in the … highest point is Attempt Hill (726 m), also known as Wetekia. Port Hardy and Greville Harbour are large bays, both … Island off Cape Stephens, the northern point of Rangitoto ki te Tonga. Named by James Cook, the island’s highest point …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… priest Ngātoroirangi. The two sisters travelled from Hawaiki to bring fire to New Zealand. Tamatekapua of the Te Arawa … Taumata-whakatangihanga-kōauau-o-tamatea-turi-pūkaka-piki-maunga-horonuku-pōkai-whenua-ki-tānatahu. It means ‘the place where Tamatea, the man with …
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Part of story: Papatūānuku – the land
… European neighbour.’ 1 Māori artists such as Arnold Manaaki Wilson (of Ngāi Tūhoe), who trained at the Elam School of … statement. It was the first marae to do that.’ 3 Te Hono ki Hawaiki, Wellington Te Hono ki Hawaiki, the meeting house at …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… leader Hōne Heke Pōkai wrote to Governor Robert FitzRoy , asking, ‘What has become of the kind policy of England? Is Her kindness in her cannon, and in her rockets?’ 1 In 1847, long …
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… When the people of the Te Arawa landed at Maketū from Hawaiki, relations were strained between the captain, … west until he came to the Waikato River. He noted the murkiness of the water and reasoned that someone was ahead of … rejected the territorial claims of another inhabitant, Hape-ki-tūārangi. Ngātoroirangi chanted powerful incantations …
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Part of story: Ngāti Tūwharetoa
… Kawerau Town at the foot of Mt Edgecumbe (Pūtauaki), 100 km south-east of Tauranga and 58 km east of … European. There is some in-migration from retired people seeking affordable and well-built houses in a pleasant environment. Mt Edgecumbe (Pūtauaki) 821-m volcano, which forms part of the ‘line of fire’ …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… Hawaiki in Polynesia Generations of Māori have wondered about the physical location of Hawaiki. The arrival of Europeans and the establishment of … late 19th and early 20th centuries. In a 1929 letter, Taranaki elder Ōriwa Haddon wrote about a visit he made to Tahiti, …
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Part of story: Hawaiki
… Nā Toi rāua ko Pōtiki te whenua Nā Tūhoe te mana me te rangatiratanga. The land comes from Toi and Pōtiki The power and prestige comes from Tūhoe. Ngā Pōtiki Ngā Pōtiki are the early ancestors of the people we know …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… A region of many peoples The Hauraki region stretches from the Mahurangi Peninsula in the … a sunken reef near Katikati, Tauranga. It includes the Tāmaki isthmus, Te Hapū-a-Kohe, the Piako, Ōhinemuri and Wairoa … other tribes have maintained a presence, including Te Patukirikiri, Ngāti Huarere, Ngāti Hako, Te Whakatōhea, Ngāti …
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Part of story: Hauraki tribes
… the region. High-quality argillite was found on Rangitoto ki te Tonga (D’Urville Island) and was traded through the …
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Part of story: Te ohanga onamata a rohe – economic regions
… include traditional composers such as Mananui Te Heuheu Tūkino II and Puhiwahine of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Mihi-ki-te-kapua of Ngāi Tūhoe, Ēnoka Te Pakaru of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki and Te Rangitopeora of Ngāti Toarangatira. Composers of …
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Part of story: Māori composers – ngā kaitito waiata
… is compared to the tawa’s hard kernel: Ka mahi te tawa uho ki te riri. Well done, tawa kernel fighting away. Death … climbing frond of mangemange ( Lygodium articulatum ): Kia pēnei te mārōrō o tō kākahu me te mangemange. Let your …
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Part of story: Te Waonui a Tāne – forest mythology
… Sir Apirana Ngata, Porourangi and his brother Tahupōtiki inherited Toikairākau, Uenuku, Kahutiaterangi, Paikea and … in the crimson red-tipped dawn: his full name is Porou-ariki Mata-tara-a-whare, te tuhimāreikura o Rauru. Tahupōtiki’s birth was in the evening flushed red with the setting …
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Part of story: Ngāti Porou
… traditional sayings about kaumātua. ‘Ka eke anō i te puke ki Ruahine.’ The person is ascending the mountain at … but whose spirit is indomitable. ‘Rākau papa pānga ka hei ki te marae.' A weapon discarded can be an ornament on the … An older person who has followed a career of a certain skill but is no longer agile enough or strong enough can …
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Part of story: Kaumātua – Māori elders
… intent to take over Māori-controlled resources. The taking of Te Hau-ki-Tūranga The carved house Te Hau-ki-Tūranga, from Ōrākaiapu near Gisborne, was built in the …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… to a tohunga, who would carry out the rite of whakatō tamariki. When Paratene and Katerina Ngata feared that they could … became a Ngāti Porou politician. In one tradition the hei tiki talisman was said to help with conception. The first tiki was given to Hineteiwaiwa by Tāne for this purpose. There …
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Part of story: Te whānau tamariki – pregnancy and birth
… and washed ashore. He was found by his grandfather, Tamanui-ki-te-rangi, and was raised as a whāngai and trained in his … personification of the rainbow, took the form of Tamatea-arikinui, the father of Kahungunu, and slept with Tamatea’s … where his relative, Matetakahia, had been accused of killing a Pākehā. Nene accused Matetakahia of the crime and …
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Part of story: Whāngai – customary fostering and adoption
… autobiography , a memoir focused on his role in attacking and damaging the America’s Cup. Dictionary of New … whānau. The biography of Ngāti Porou war hero Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngārimu was written by Whai Ngata. Rewi Maniapoto ’s … Pou Temara produced the biography of Tūhoe composer Mihi-ki-te-kapua . Recent biographies Many recent biographies …
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… man’s spirit to the legendary Polynesian homeland of Hawaiki. A heavy rain cape made from undressed flax has been … mate mai i mua, i a Māui – Nā te pātātai i kata, ka motu ki roto rā … Death is no light matter. There was death in …
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Part of story: Ngā manu – birds