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… is adapted from a version given by Tipene O’Regan of the Ngāi Tahu tribe. 1 Poutini was a taniwha or guardian of …
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Part of story: Pounamu – jade or greenstone
… area is the home principally of Ngāti Whare, a sub-tribe of Ngāi Tūhoe, and includes the settlements of Te Whāiti and …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… born in the late eighteenth century. He was the superior Ngāi Tahu leader at Ōtākou, on the Otago Peninsula, by the … to.' In September 1857 Karetai joined with other prominent Ngāi Tahu leaders in signing a loyal petition to the Queen …
Type: Biography
… Tregerthen's mother, Emma Driver, derived her high rank in Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Māmoe and Waitaha from her mother, … mother, was Tini Noti Tūhuru Arapata Hōrau (Jane Albert) of Ngāi Tahu; she was descended by senior lines from the … married Ruti Matekino Solomon (Horomona), daughter of Ngāi Tahu chief Āperahama Tūpahu Tahuna Horomona and his …
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… Patu) of Te Whakatōhea; his mother, from Murihiku, was of Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe. At birth Mōnita was given to his … hearings of the Muriwhenua (fishing and land), Te Roroa, Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Rangiteaorere claims. Before accepting …
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… warfare and then intermarriage. In the early 1800s the Ngāi Tahu tribe gradually incorporated Ngāti Māmoe. The … – more or less today’s Southland – for the Crown from local Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe. Reserves were never properly laid …
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Part of story: Southland region
… tribal affiliations included Te Whakatōhea, Ngāti Pūkeko, Ngāi Tai, Tūhoe and Te Arawa on her mother's side, and Ngāi Tawarere and Te Whānau-a-Manu on her father's. She was …
Type: Biography
… and Jesse Ryder (batsman). American football Riki Ellison (Ngāi Tahu) is a former linebacker who played in the NFL (the … K-1 200 metres at the 2012 Olympic games. Storm Uru (Ngāi Tahu) won the gold medal along with Peter Taylor at the …
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Part of story: Māori and sport – hākinakina
… in nature. Perhaps the most well-known is that of the Ngāi Tūhoe people, said to descend from the mist of the …
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Part of story: First peoples in Māori tradition
… Awa still have links with many northern tribes, including Ngāi Takoto, Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa and Ngātiwai. Tribal …
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Part of story: Ngāti Awa
… be a matter of life or death. In 1831 Whakarua- tapu of Ngāi Tahu was a captive on a canoe of the Ngāti Toa leader …
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Part of story: Open water swimming
… where they were found in the greatest numbers in 2013. Ngāi Tai 1991 census: 96 2001 census: 177 2006 census: 342 …
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Part of story: Hauraki tribes
… entirely dependent on Māori for supplies. By the mid-1830s Ngāi Tahu were bringing potatoes from Taieri and Moeraki by …
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Part of story: Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy
… of the land. They say that Tuputupuwhenua’s descendants Ngāi Tuputupuwhenua, and the descendants of his wife Kui, Te …
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Part of story: Ngāti Whātua
… te hono a te kiore’ (gather as rats do) was used by the Ngāi Tūhoe ancestor Karetehe to rally warriors who were …
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Part of story: Kiore – Pacific rats
… and pūrerehua (bull roarer). The late Hirini Melbourne of Ngāi Tūhoe and Ngāti Kahungunu and ethnomusicologist and …
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Part of story: Waiata hōu – contemporary Māori songs
… George Manning Moke Couch, who had an English father and Ngāi Tahu mother, and his wife, Hinerua Rīwai of Rāpaki, who had a Ngāi Tahu father and Ngāti Mutunga mother. Until the age of …
Type: Biography
… were Ngāti Rangi and Te Roroa of Te Roroa, Ngāti Pākau and Ngāi Tū of Ngāpuhi, and Ngāti Rongo of Ngāti Whātua. A … carved chests and remains of her Te Roroa, Ngāti Pou and Ngāi Tū ancestors were discovered on the non-Crown reserved …
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… leaders, such as John Te Rangiāniwaniwa Rangihau of Ngāi Tūhoe, a master of the meremere (short stone weapon), … of women in haka. Others, such as Bub Wehi (Te Whakatōhea, Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu) not …
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Part of story: Kapa Haka
… he acted as a peacemaker in the war between Te Arawa and Ngāi Te Rangi at Maketū in 1833 and wrote to Williams in the … a war party of Ngāti Hauā to Maketū, and with the help of Ngāi Te Rangi, destroyed Maketū pa. Tapsell watched his …
Type: Biography