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… connected to the land and to the natural world. Kaitiakitanga grows out of this connection and expresses it in a … toward Rangiuru and said, ‘Te toropuke i runga rā, ahu mai ki ngā maunga nei, ko te takapū o Tapuika!’ (That small hill …
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Part of story: Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation
… Rediscovery Kaitiakitanga today is being rediscovered and explored. Māori … areas and tribal knowledge of those places. Kaitiakitanga in action There are many examples of contemporary kaitiakitanga. The Ngāi Tahu tribe are kaitiaki of the pounamu … Kaitiakitanga today …
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Part of story: Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation
… ancestors who journeyed from the ancestral homeland, Hawaiki. Although their traditions are very different, Kupe, like … in a letter to the Māori-language newspaper, Te Toa Takitini : E kīia ana he moutere kotahi ēnei e rua, nā Kupe i … ancestor, Te Whatuiāpiti. Ka tito au, ka tito au. Ka tito ki a Kupe! Te tangata nana i hoehoe te moana. Tu ke a …
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Part of story: Whenua – how the land was shaped
… came ashore. She eventually married a local man named Manaaki-ao. This marriage gave rise to the Ngāi Tai people, who … Plenty. Some generations later, a local man named Tamatea-tokinui urged his three granddaughters – Te Raukohekohe, … Kaweinga – to live with their Tainui relations in the Hauraki region. The women left with a large entourage, and their …
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Part of story: Hauraki tribes
… Land confiscation The Ngāti Awa chief Tamatearehe was speaking about his own tribe when he commented: Kei runga te … of Ngāti Awa: Koia tēnei; ko te toroa noho au, E tangi ana ki tōna kainga, e mihi ana. This is a fact; I live like the …
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Part of story: Ngāti Awa
… Waipatu, edited by Īhāia Hūtana from 1893 to 1895 Te Toa Takitini (the bravery of many), between 1921 and 1932 Te Reo O … community paper edited by Bonnie Waka and later Paul King and Jimina King, established in 1999. Radio Kahungunu, established in …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… tribe’s land, they might request, ‘Tukua mai he kapunga one ki au, hei tangi.’ (Send me some soil from home that I might … ease the passage of the spirit into the afterlife. The karakia were chanted by a tohunga. Preparing the body Because of … around the legs. The crouched body was wrapped in whāriki (mats), cloaks and other finery. Kia tangihia, kia mihia …
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Part of story: Tangihanga – death customs
… of Plenty coastline in the phrase, ‘Mai Ngā Kurī a Whārei ki Tihirau’ – from Ngā Kurī a Whārei to Tihirau (near Cape … ears) when they are swimming. The name comes from Hawaiki, the Polynesian homeland of Māori. It was also formerly … people (31.3% of the population is 65 and over). Some kilometres away is the Athenree homestead, built by Katikati …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… New Zealand: 1.2% Principal tribes and sub-tribes Rangitāne ki Wairau, Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō, Ngāti Koata, Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… (person of authority), as in this whakataukī: He māhiti ki runga, he paepaeroa ki raro Koia nei te kākahu o te rangatira! A dog hair cloak … of kākahu (garments) were the kahu kurī, or dog-skin and dog-hair cloaks. These could be worn with the hair …
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Part of story: Māori clothing and adornment – kākahu Māori
… to 3,000 tons which braved the Kaipara Harbour bar before making the journey to Onehunga, ports further south, and … ‘Kauri Coast’ tourist route, which leads to Waipoua and Hokianga. Ripirō 100-km beach stretching from the 500-m … Maunganui Bluff was an important landmark, visible many kilometres away in clear weather, especially from the south. …
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Part of story: Northland places
… down the west coast of the North Island to Waitara in Taranaki. Tītahi also established pā in Tāmaki-makau-rau (Auckland), which included Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill). The other migrating group went down …
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Part of story: Ngāti Awa
… off the south-west of the North Island, to Rangitoto ki te Tonga (D’Urville) Island in the Marlborough Sounds, … swim. While they were busy fishing, Hinepoupou said a karakia (incantation). A storm came up and her husband and his … foreshadowed a few years earlier when he had swum 22.5 kilometres along New Zealand’s Waihou River. Competitive …
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Part of story: Open water swimming
… to assert his authority and rights to land in the Hauraki region. These were conducted at various sites, including … The aute plant The aute or paper mulberry tree, used for making tapa (bark cloth) in Polynesia, was brought to New … an important symbol of the fertility and mana of Hauraki land. A number of canoes from Hawaiki brought this plant …
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Part of story: Marutūahu tribes
… a traditional saying: Ko Aotea te waka Ko Turi te tangata ki runga Ko Taranaki te maunga Ko Waingongoro te awa Ko Ngāti Ruanui te iwi. Aotea is the canoe Turi is the ancestor Taranaki is the mountain Waingongoro is the river Ngāti Ruanui is …
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Part of story: Ngāti Ruanui
… movement. Mahupuku also began the newspaper Te Puke ki Hikurangi . Published intermittently until 1913,thist was … to represent peace between Māori and Pākehā, rather than looking outwards to confront enemies. Fall and rise From the …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… valleys. Tāhuhunui-o-te-rangi’s son or grandson, Tāhuhupōtiki, married the famous Waikato woman chief Reipae. Ngātiwai … are descended from Manaia (the captain of the Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi or Ruakaramea canoe) and his people Ngāti … have links to ancestors from Whangaroa in the north to Tāmaki (Auckland) in the south, and eastward to Little Barrier …
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Part of story: Whangārei tribes
… Poling was difficult work – hence the saying, ‘He waka tuku ki tai, tūruru ana ngā tāngata o runga; he waka toko, tau … stone known as a punga terewai, although not strictly speaking an anchor, was used in sounding, and determining the …
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Part of story: Waka – canoes
… (Hole in the Rock) and Rākaumangamanga (Cape Brett), to Tāmaki (Auckland) in the south and eastwards to Hauturu (Little … Whangārei coast. The ancestor Manaia, captain of the Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi , landed at Motu Kōkako. Another account says he … (darkness), where the canoe made a night landing; Whananaki (kicking), so named because mosquitoes caused a restless …
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Part of story: Whangārei tribes