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… From Waitaha to Ngāi Tahu Traditionally, the Waitaha people had authority … sway of another tribe from the North Island’s East Coast, Ngāi Tahu. Early arrivals Traces of human occupation in … In June 1840 Major Thomas Bunbury gained the signatures of Ngāi Tahu leaders to the treaty. In 1844 the Ngāi Tahu …
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Part of story: Otago region
… returned in the early 1830s to attack both Tauranga and Ngāi Tūhoe. Traders The Europeans who had reached the region … encouraged peacemaking – for instance between Ngāti Awa and Ngāi Tūhoe in 1834, and between Ngāi Te Rangi and Te Arawa in 1845. It also enabled …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… Te Maiharoa belonged to Ngāti Huirapa, a hapū of Ngāi Tahu which was also linked to Ngāti Māmoe. Little is … was learned in the traditions of Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe and Ngāi Tahu. By 1857 he was literate, professed himself an … laid out were becoming a matter of growing concern to Ngāi Tahu. The loss of the reserve at Hakataramea in 1868 …
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… domain, .com, for example: Muaūpoko – www.muaupoko.iwi.nz Ngāi Takoto – www.ngaitakoto.com Te Rarawa – www.terarawa.co.nz Ngāi Tai – www.ngaitai.maori.nz Ngāi Te Rangi – www.ngaiterangi.org.nz. While content varies …
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Part of story: Mātauranga hangarau – information technology
… to take captives. They were also seeking greenstone. The Ngāi Tahu pā of Kaikōura and Ōmihi were sacked and their … killed or enslaved. Ngāti Toa continued south to the Ngāi Tahu pā at Kaiapoi and there professed friendship and a … the night in Kaiapoi pā and were killed while sleeping. Ngāi Tahu sources say that there was a quarrel, initiated by …
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… established to represent the interests of Rongowhakaata, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri and Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki. It is involved in … to its treatment of Te Kooti Rikirangi and his descendants. Ngāi Tāmanuhiri settled it historic treaty claims on 5 March … Forest. Young Nick’s Head Historic Reserve was vested in Ngai Tāmanuhiri as a national historic reserve, and its name …
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Part of story: Tūranganui-a-Kiwa tribes
… Hēnare Wiremu Taratoa was a leader of Ngāi Te Rangi of the Tauranga district. He was born about … Contingents of warriors were allowed to move through Ngāi Te Rangi territory to aid the King movement. When British troops were sent to stop this, the warriors of Ngāi Te Rangi gathered at Te Waoku pā near the Waimapu …
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… was the daughter of Ānaru Mākiwhara (Andrew Maxwell) of Ngāi Tai and Ngāti Paoa, the last tohunga-tā-moko (tattoo … Trust Board from 1948 until at least 1968, representing Ngāi Tai, Ngāti Tamaoho and Te Koheriki of the Tāmaki–Wairoa … of her land at Umupuia to be set aside as a marae for her Ngāi Tai people. She raised money by opening her paddocks to …
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… Uenuku, Ruatapu and Paikea Ngāi Tahu origins lie in Hawaiki, which is considered by … the North Island. From this ancestor stem the two tribes of Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Porou. …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… virtually invisible. Despite the agreement between Poutini Ngāi Tahu and the Crown, signed in 1860, local Māori lost … promised reserves were never established. As part of the Ngai Tahu Claim Settlement Act 1998, there was a substantial … control of pounamu resources was returned to groups within Ngāi Tahu. Ownership of pounamu in the Arahura River …
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Part of story: West Coast region
… in the Arahura River has been most important for Poutini Ngāi Tahu (Ngāi Tahu people on the West Coast), with the junction of … Stream being particularly important. Value The South Island Ngāi Tahu people have a particularly close relationship with …
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Part of story: Pounamu – jade or greenstone
… and 1863 the Crown bought millions of hectares of land from Ngāi Tahu in a series of nine purchases. In the 1848 … had begun to investigate the amount of land available to Ngāi Tahu and found that only 10% of the tribe had … Māori throughout the South Island were given some land. Ngāi Tahu and other South Island tribes had not had an …
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Part of story: Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy
… Manawa, the local iwi (tribe), are kin to Ngāti Whare and Ngāi Tū. We are the people The traditional saying of Ngāti … that stretches from Murupara to Waiōahau. It has a strong Ngāi Tūhoe identity. The damming of the Rangitāiki River at … associations for hapū of Ngāti Manawa, Ngāti Whare and Ngāi Tūhoe. Tawhiuau, the mountain of Ngāti Manawa, reaches …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… from Kaikohe and Te Waimate into the Bay of Islands. Ngāi Tāhuhu Ngāi Tāhuhu, another of the earliest tribes in the northern … Tāhuhunui-o-te-rangi, the captain of the Moekākara canoe. Ngāi Tāhuhu established pā at Pouērua in the Bay of Islands, …
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Part of story: Whangārei tribes
… Jack' by the sealers of Foveaux Strait, was the leader of Ngāi Tahu in Murihiku (the southern part of the South … century. Much of his adult life was spent in movement about Ngāi Tahu territory and further afield, but his home was on … ancestry can be traced through leading families of Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe. His father, Te Kaihaere, a son of …
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… nearby. Tahu Pōtiki left some descendants here, who became Ngāi Tahu of Te Wairoa. Tūpai, another tohunga on the canoe, … to the South Island, where he became the ancestor of Ngāi Tahu. Rongokako Tamatea Arikinui’s son was Rongokako, a …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… Tāmaki (Auckland) region: Ngāti Pāoa on Waiheke Island; Ngāi Tai at Maraetai; Ngāti Whātua at Ōrākei; Te … establish a marae at Te Onekiritea Point (Hobsonville). The Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Deed of Settlement was signed on 7 …
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Part of story: Tāmaki tribes
… them she was descended from Māhanga-pūhua of Ngāti Ira and Ngāi Tara, who was also connected to Ngāti Moe of Wairarapa … area. Through Te Rōnaki, Tāmairangi was connected to Ngāi Te Ao, Rangitāne, and to Ngāti Kuia who lived on the … killed at Kaiapoi pā. Possibly they sought shelter with Ngāi Tahu at Kaikōura, and died when Te Rauparaha and Ngāti …
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… Tribes South Canterbury is in the territory of the Ngāi Tahu people. The lines of earlier South Island iwi … (tribes) – Ngāti Mamoe and Waitaha – merged into those of Ngāi Tahu, but are especially strong in the region. The … marae is one of the main centres for Waitaha. The major Ngāi Tahu settlement in South Canterbury was Te Waiateruati, …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… governments, for sale and grant to private settlers. Ngāi Tahu of the South Island lost their very large landed … local Māori. This was particularly the case with the Ngāi Tahu deeds, where the government’s failure to set aside … a long-standing grievance which was not resolved until the Ngāi Tahu claim settlement in 1998. …
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Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation