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… by Māori and European alike as the leading trader in Ngāti Porou territory. In 1861 he established a trading-post … Waiapu River. He owned five horses and held half an acre of Ngāti Porou land 'by sufferance', paying rent of £12 a year. … Hauhau later in July. Manuel José had five wives, all from Ngāti Porou: Tapita Te Here-kaipuke, Kataraina Te Auwhi (a …
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… to the Waiapu River, and then south to Tūranganui. The Ngāti Ruapani, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki and Te … flax and left his son Ranginui, who became the ancestor of Ngāti Ranginui. Tamatea rounded East Cape and headed south … and Huiarau ranges, are named after him. The traditions of Ngāti Whitikaupeka, Ngāti Hauiti and Ngāti Apa tell how …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… Māori in Australia call themselves Maussies or Mozzies, Ngāti Rānana is a London-based cultural group. Fair-skinned …
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… the ‘River City’. Tribes Whanganui is the ancestral home of Ngāti Tūpoho, Ngāti Tūmango and Ngā Paerangi, hapū (sub-tribes) of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi. Pūtiki is the marae of Ngāti Tūpoho and Ngāti Tūmango, and Te Ao Hou at Aramoho is …
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Part of story: Whanganui places
… his mother, Hāmiora Mangakāhia was a high-ranking member of Ngāti Whanaunga; his hapū were Ngāti Hei and Ngāti Pare. His father was from Ngāti Kahungunu . Meri Te …
Type: Biography
… 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 … to be kept from a possible threat from Te Rauparaha and Ngāti Toa, with whom Ngāi Tahu of Kaiapoi pā were in …
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… also named Te Rangi-pūawhe, led Tūhourangi in war against Ngāti Pikiao before Tūhourangi abandoned their home at … about 1826. His mother was Hinatuituia of Tūhourangi and Ngāti Wāhiao. In the wars of the 1860s Te Keepa Te … 4 May 1869 and soon captured Te Harema (Salem), the pā of Ngāti Whare, Pai Mārire adherents who supported Te Kooti, …
Type: Biography
… Waitoa is said to have been of Ngāti Raukawa , Ngāti Maru and Te Arawa descent. The names of his parents … have gone south to Horowhenua with one of the migrations of Ngāti Raukawa in the 1820s. He was an early convert of the …
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… invading musket-armed Ngāpuhi in 1818 and 1820, and against Ngāti Maru in 1828. He was almost certainly with Ngāi Te Rangi who assisted Te Waharoa of Ngāti Hauā against Ngāti Maru at the battle of Taumatawīwī in Waikato in 1830. …
Type: Biography
… , Rangitāne, Te Aomatarahi and Ira. His principal hapū was Ngāti Kahukura-awhitia. Some genealogies suggest that … Heretaunga (Hawke's Bay) by Te Pareihe , the war leader of Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti, to help 'extinguish the fires' kindled … by an invading force led by Mananui Te Heuheu Tūkino II of Ngāti Tūwharetoa. At this time Te Pareihe wanted the …
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… to the ariki Te Kani a Takirau of Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Ngāti Porou through his mother, and to Te Rarawa of … of her grandparents; but his main identification was with Ngāti Kahungunu of Wairoa through the hapū Ngāi Te Apatari. … Tamaira, also known as Te Rangiita Te Waaka, a leading rangatira of Ngāti Te Rangiita hapū of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, and …
Type: Biography
… on their ancestral lands. His father was Te Omanga Tūrei of Ngāti Hokopū and his mother Mākere Tangikuku of Te Aitanga-a-Mate, both hapū of Ngāti Porou . He was their only child. Te Omanga and his … Parāone Pohukura and Te Paaka were among the leading men of Ngāti Hokopū. Mohi was also closely related to Mōkena Kōhere …
Type: Biography
… versions of the story; the following is drawn from Ngāti Tūwharetoa tradition. The story goes that in the days … The following account, given by Pei Te Hurinui Jones of the Ngāti Maniapoto tribe, illustrates how the same story can … are the snow, the winds and the rain. According to Ngāti Awa, Tongariro had two wives, Pīhanga and Ngāuruhoe. …
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Part of story: Whenua – how the land was shaped
… in tribal narratives and whakapapa (genealogies). The Ngāti Awa tribe have a whakapapa for the kūmara (sweet … caterpillars that live on it. For example, according to the Ngāti Awa whakapapa concerning the origin of the kūmara, … Agrius convolvuli ). Pūriri moth (pepetuna) According to a Ngāti Kahungunu tradition, an ancestor named Hinepeke …
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Part of story: Te aitanga pepeke – the insect world
… from the sky. Despite the slight difference in name, Ngāti Awa and Te Āti Awa share a common ancestry. Several … tribes. They relocated to both the Bay of Plenty, where the Ngāti Awa people today reside, and to Taranaki, where Te Āti … identity is the current affiliation of the Bay of Plenty Ngāti Awa people with the Mataatua canoe, and Te Āti Awa in …
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Part of story: Te Āti Awa of Taranaki
… In the late 1970s, Ngāti Whātua o Ōrākei occupied their former lands at …
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… 0.3% New Zealand: 1.2% Principal tribes and sub-tribes Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Tamaterā, Ngāti Whanaunga, Ngāti Pāoa, Ngāti Hako, Ngāti Hei, Ngāti …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… Tāmati Hōne Ōraukawa was a member of Ngāti Manuhiakai hapū of Ngā Ruahine, a section of Ngāti Ruanui of South Taranaki. He was the principal leader … he attended the meeting at Manawapou, near Hāwera, at which Ngāti Ruanui, Ngā Rauru and Taranaki agreed on boundaries …
Type: Biography
… a daughter named Ngā Roimata. Tama-i-hara-nui belonged to Ngāti Rakiāmoa, an eminent hapū of Ngāi Tahu, and, as the … Ngāi Tahu would probably have continued, but about 1828 Ngāti Toa from the north, led by Te Rauparaha , attacked and destroyed the Ngāi Tahu pā at Kaikōura. Ngāti Toa then over-ran Ōmihi pā and proceeded to Kaiāpoi. …
Type: Biography
… Tene Waitere belonged to Ngāti Tarāwhai, who were kin to Ngāti Pikiao and Tūhourangi of Te Arawa of Rotorua. His … mother was Ani Pape, the daughter of Te Rāhui, a prominent Ngāti Tarāwhai leader. As a young girl, she was captured …
Type: Biography