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… which is now a centre for pounamu craft work. Under the Ngāi Tahu (Pounamu Vesting) Act 1997, the ownership of all pounamu is administered by the Ngāi Tahu tribe. …
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Part of story: Gemstones
… Māori. Different pronunciation is found in different areas. Ngāi Tūhoe pronounce the ‘ng’ as ‘n’, while Ngāi Tahu replace ‘ng’ with ‘k’. Among the Whanganui and …
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Part of story: Te reo Māori – the Māori language
… agricultural and racing newspaper. Māori institutions Ngāi Tahu life was dominated for 150 years by a long … was achieved in the first half of the 20th century, and the Ngāi Tahu Trust Board was set up. The claim was finally settled in 1997. Ngāi Tahu is now a major force in the Canterbury economy. …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… Waiheke Island and the coast northward to Whangaparāoa. Ngāi Tai Ngāi Tai descend from the Tainui ancestors Taihaua, Taikehu … Tainui-related tribe, Ngāti Tai, live today. Links between Ngāi Tai and Ngāti Tai were reinforced several generations …
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Part of story: Tāmaki tribes
… and Tuahiwi has remained the main settlement of the Ngāi Tūahuriri hapū (sub-tribe) of Ngāi Tahu. A Māori mission was established at Tuahiwi in the … the community centre were also lost. The site of the large Ngāi Tahu pa, Kaiapoi, is 11 km north of the town. Built in …
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Part of story: Canterbury places
… district from Whakatāne to Ōpōtiki. Also established were Ngāi Tūranga in the Rūātoki and Ōpouriao districts, Ngā … unions were to bring about new tribes, one of them being Ngāi Tūhoe. The Mataatua migrants, while extremely few in … (the grandson of Toroa) and Paewhiti, who was part Ngāi Tūranga and part Mataatua immigrant through her father …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie was a Ngāi Tahu (or Kāi Tahu) leader and woman of mana, and a … and Takerei Norton (eds.), Tāngata Ngāi Tahu: people of Ngai Tāhu , Wellington, 2017. It is published with the …
Type: Biography
… wars by acting as mediums for the war gods. An example was Ngāi Tuhoe tohunga Uhia who became a medium for an atua … Rehu-o-Tainui and he became a principal war god among the Ngāi Tūhoe people. …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori warfare – Riri
… such as Selwyn Muru (of Ngāti Kurī) and Haare Williams (Ngāi Tūhoe and Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki) in Auckland, and Whai … Hirini Melbourne In the same period Hirini Melbourne (Ngāi Tūhoe), a multi-talented musician who wrote many …
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Part of story: Māori radio – reo irirangi
… Te Uri or Ngā Uri (the descendants), Ngāti, Ngā, Ngāi, Aitanga or Te Āti (the people or offspring), Te Tini … of Tama (Taranaki) Ngāpuhi: The People of Puhi (Northland) Ngāi Tūhoe: The People of Tūhoe (Urewera) Te …
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Part of story: Tribal organisation
… very severe for Waikato–Tainui tribes; Taranaki tribes; Ngāi Te Rangi in Tauranga; and Ngāti Awa, Whakatōhea and … part of the ‘returned’ area was purchased from a group of Ngāi Te Rangi chiefs and vested in the Crown shortly …
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Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… Hokianga tribes first consolidated under the tribal name Ngāi Tūpoto, which they took from Rāhiri’s great-grandson … Paihia districts, overrunning and often intermarrying with Ngāi Tāhuhu, Ngāti Manaia, Te Wahineiti and Ngāti Miru. …
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Part of story: Ngāpuhi
… tribal areas. It was while visiting Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and Ngāi Tai that he met the famed beauty Hinemōtū. Although she … He in turn had Te Rangihouhiri, the ancestor of the Ngāi Te Rangi tribe from the Tauranga district. This …
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Part of story: Ngāti Tūwharetoa
… and the younger sister of Tūhotoariki, principal chiefs of Ngāi Te Ūpokoiri, of Heretaunga (Hawke's Bay) and inland … the name Kawepō as a boy when Ngāti Raukawa attacked Ngāi Te Ūpokoiri and Ngāti Hinemanu in Pātea, killing the … and Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti, the major tribes of Heretaunga. Ngāi Te Ūpokoiri and their allies were defeated at the …
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… father was Aritaku Maaka, of Ngāti Hikatoa of Waimārama and Ngāi Tahu of Takapau, hapū of Ngāti Kahungunu . On his … Tete (Teitei) of Ngāti Rakiāmoa, Ngāti Te Ātawhiua and Ngai Tūāhuriri hapū of South Island Ngāi Tahu. She was the …
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… 3 November 1858 Mackay was instructed by McLean to purchase Ngāi Tahu title to the Kaikōura block of 2,500,000 acres and … Mackay he proceeded to Kaikōura, where the position of Ngāi Tahu had been compromised after Governor George Grey … had since moved in. James used these circumstances to beat Ngāi Tahu down from their asking price of £5,000 to £300. …
Type: Biography
… affiliated. The figures below show the number who indicated Ngāi Tahu (including those who indicated more than one …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… a ‘more liberal spirit’ in their dealings with the Ngāi Tahu people of the South Island, and that some North … settlements were finalised in 1944 for Taranaki and Ngāi Tahu iwi, in 1946 for Waikato–Maniapoto iwi, and in … amount was small by modern standards – £3,000 annually for Ngāi Tahu for 30 years (around $270,000 annually in 2021 …
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… 1.2% Principal tribes and sub-tribes Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Te Arawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Manawa, Ngāti Whare, Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Whakatōhea, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, Ngāi Tai Population of major urban areas, 2013 Tauranga: …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… and Ngata initially encountered some resistance from Ngāi Tahu of Southland, who were hostile to any policy … from several Ngāti Mamoe hapū was vehemently opposed by Ngāi Tahu elders: they believed his ancestors had not … unremitting in appealing to Parliament to settle Ngāi Tahu grievances. He was appointed to the Ngāi Tahu …
Type: Biography