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… Isolated high up in the rugged Urewera country, Ngāi Tūhoe developed a powerful connection with the … of the natural world, who brought forth the people known as Ngāi Tūhoe. … Ngāi Tūhoe …
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… Migrating from the North Island’s East Coast, Ngāi Tahu thrived in the South Island. They intermarried … Ngāi Tahu …
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… a way to the east coast. On finding some men of the Ngāi Tahu tribe building a canoe, she commented on the … a small packet. Impressed by this tool, a small group of Ngāi Tahu people returned with her to fetch some pounamu, … learned the route to the highly valued resource. Poutini Ngāi Tahu Over time the Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Wairangi tribes …
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Part of story: Pounamu – jade or greenstone
… Tau filed a claim to the Waitangi Tribunal on behalf of the Ngāi Tahu Māori Trust Board. The claim identified Ngāi Tahu’s grievances about the land purchases. In 1991 the … reports became the basis of a negotiated settlement between Ngāi Tahu and the Crown. Sir Tīpene O’Regan led the …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… Within a year of the peace settlement with Ngāti Toa, Ngāi Tahu also committed themselves to the Treaty of … chiefs signing at Akaroa, Ruapuke and Ōtākou during 1840. Ngāi Tahu believed that with the treaty would come material … sell to settlers or commercial interests. From 1844 to 1863 Ngāi Tahu sold their lands to the Crown in a series of nine …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… The claim to the land For Ngāi Tahu, conquest had never been a preferred means of … marrying into the earliest resident tribes such as Waitaha, Ngāi Tahu also learned the traditions and customs of these … region, and begun to extend to the south and west, Ngāi Tahu acquired the tribal belief system of Waitaha. …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… The southern coast Ngāi Tahu along the Foveaux Strait and Otago coastlines had … trading in Sydney to arm themselves with muskets. Kaiapoi Ngāi Tahu sought the support of their southern kin, and it … Makere Te Whanawhana, Whaitiri and Paitu, the southern Ngāi Tahu departed to attack Ngāti Toa. At Ōtākou the chiefs …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… Ngāi Tai When the Tainui canoe arrived at Whangaparāoa in … local man named Manaaki-ao. This marriage gave rise to the Ngāi Tai people, who are located at Tōrere in the Bay of … led to the formation of another tribe, again called Ngāi Tai, who are based in the Maraetai and Clevedon …
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Part of story: Hauraki tribes
… Pārengarenga Harbour, for the funeral of the chief Ihutara. Ngāi Takoto and Te Pātū The tribes Ngāi Takoto and Te Pātū also trace descent from the … the second, he had a son, Hoka. In an account of how Ngāi Takoto got their name, it is said that when Hoka was …
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Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes
… A South Island toehold Tahupōtiki, from whom Ngāi Tahu take their name, was descended from the legendary … history. Largely because of internal struggles between Ngāi Tahu and their kin, Ngāi Tahu migrated further south to Wellington and settled …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… Further intermarriage From Kaiapoi, Ngāi Tahu incorporated the southern sections of Ngāti Māmoe … were forged to legitimise residence in each region. Ngāi Tahu occupied the Otago coast and the far south. By the late 18th century, Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe had established a tribal …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… Horomona Pōhio claimed descent from the major lines of Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Māmoe and Waitaha. His hapū were Ngāi Taoka, Ngāti Huirapa, Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki, Ngāi Te Rakiāmoa and Ngāi Tūāhuriri. …
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… Ngāti Toa Ngāi Tahu’s tribal domain was seriously threatened from the … When Ngāti Toa reached the South Island, a new era of Ngāi Tahu history began as the tribes became embroiled in … conflict. The first battles The first attack made against Ngāi Tahu was at Kaikōura during 1827–28. Ngāi Tahu records …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… a tatau pounamu was made between the Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāi Tūhoe tribes. Three Ngāti Kahungunu chiefs requested a meeting with chiefs of the Ngāi Tūhoe tribe. Principal negotiators were selected from each tribe – Te Āhuru of Ngāi Tūhoe, and Hipara of Ngāti Kahungunu. In the …
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Part of story: Pounamu – jade or greenstone
… Ngāi Tahu investment In the early 2000s Ngāi Tahu was widely regarded as a tribe that performed successfully commercially. Ngāi Tahu separated its governance and investment arms, to …
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Part of story: Ngā haumi a iwi – Māori investment
… in the 1830s or early 1840s. His father was the prominent Ngāi Tahu chief Te Mātenga Taiaroa , of Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki, and his mother was Mawera of Ngāti … in commemoration of a traditional peacemaking between Ngāi Tahu and Te Āti Awa in 1844, when Te Maraini Huriwhenua …
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… a place to signal a rāhui. 1 In the Southland region, the Ngāi Tahu tribe preserved resources through a number of restrictions: A traditional Ngāi Tahu example is the wakawaka (boundaries defined … on seafood gathering: [T]he rāhui [was] placed around the Ngāi Tahu rohe pōtae (region) by Rakiihia Tau … This rāhui …
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Part of story: Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation
… Kaikōura Whakatau was the leader of Ngāi Tahu in the Kaikōura district throughout the first 25 … Tāhere, or Te Haere, and Āniwaniwa, were descended from the Ngāi Tahu leader Turakautahi. His lineage therefore entitled … him to share in the deliberations of the senior leaders of Ngāi Tahu. Kaikōura Whakatau was absent when his pā at …
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… are the early ancestors of the people we know today as Ngāi Tūhoe. Before the arrival in New Zealand of the … Some of the sub-tribes of Ngā Pōtiki were Ngāti Rākei, Ngāi Tuahau, Tama-kai-moana, Ngāti Papa and Ngāi Tūmata-rākau. Te Tini o Toi Tūhoe also belong to Te …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… of Barrett’s Hotel in Wellington, and Kararaina Hinehou, a Ngāi Tahu woman from Kaiapoi. Bill Barrett attended Kaiapoi … Barrett married Tini Weepu (also known as Jennie Webb) of Ngāi Tahu; they would have five children. Tini died in … 1918 in Christchurch Bill married Mere Rihiani Ruru of Ngāi Tūāhuriri from Koukourarata. The couple were to have …
Type: Biography