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… death of one Moriori (at least), a man named Tamakororo. A Ngāti Tama elder recollects Amongst those who had visited … of the spoils of war reached such a pitch that two groups, Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga, sought sanctuary elsewhere. A few proposed …
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Part of story: Chatham Islands
… Hēkopa Awatere, a farmer of Te Whānau-a-Hinetāpora hapū of Ngāti Porou , and his wife, Hēni Hautao, also known as Hēni … had died in battle against a Ngāpuhi force. Later, Ngāti Hine of Ngāpuhi sent young rangatira women and men to intermarry with Ngāti Porou to …
Type: Biography
… times; the descendants of the navigator Kupe; and powerful Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri, who ruled for 200 years. Today, eight …
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… 0.5% New Zealand: 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 …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… 1 Unlike Māori, they were never tattooed. Mohi Tūrei of Ngāti Porou described their skin as white, albino or the … to Māori society. In 1894 Hoani Nahe, an elder of the Ngāti Maru people, recalled three sub-tribes of patupaiarehe: Ngāti Kura, Ngāti Korakorako, and Ngāti Tūrehu. Tahurangi, …
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Part of story: Patupaiarehe
… and animals. Because of the tension between Tūhoe and their Ngāti Awa kin on the coast, Tūhoe hapū (sub-tribes) … in the battle for Ōrākau. Ōrākau In 1863 or early 1864, Ngāti Maniapoto war leader Rewi Maniapoto visited Te Urewera … between the chiefs Te Purewa of Tūhoe and Peehi Tūkorehu of Ngāti Maniapoto at Te Whāiti 40 years earlier. This ended in …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… is in the south-east of the territory. Tūhoe and Ngāti Ruapani say the lake was formed by the thrashing of … of war existed between hapū (sub-tribes) of Ngāi Tūhoe and Ngāti Kahungunu around Waikaremoana. Tūhoe hapū moved from … pā, and intermarried with local hapū, to the extent that Ngāti Ruapani-ki-Waikaremoana identify strongly with Tūhoe. …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… of their mountains, waterways and important ancestors. When Ngāti Porou identify themselves, they say: Ko Hikurangi te maunga Ko Waiapu te awa Ko Ngāti Porou te iwi. Hikurangi is the mountain Waiapu is the river Ngāti Porou is the tribe. Here, the sense of tūrangawaewae …
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Part of story: Papatūānuku – the land
… influence of Māori leader and politician Apirana Ngata of Ngāti Porou. The earliest published reference to modern … leaders included Ngata, Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hīroa) of Ngāti Mutunga, and Māui Pōmare of Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Toa. During the First World War, …
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Part of story: Kapa Haka
… Because of the mana of Rongomaiwahine, the people of Ngāti Rongomaiwahine hold strongly to their separate identity. Some identify themselves as both Ngāti Rongomaiwahine and Ngāti Kahungunu, but those who are descended from …
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Part of story: Ngāti Rongomaiwahine
… lived in the southern Bay of Islands, in the territory of Ngāti Manu, of Ngāpuhi. His connection to this hapū was … Kororāreka (Russell) and to his heir, Te Whareumu, also of Ngāti Manu. By 1815 Whiria was chief over a village in the … Ngāpuhi women who were living with Captain W. D. Brind in Ngāti Manu territory at Kororāreka were bathing one day. …
Type: Biography
… Moihi (or Mohi) Torohanga, was of the major Wairarapa hapū Ngāti Moe. His family hapū was Ngāti Whakawhena. He was also kin to Ngāi Tahu of Wairarapa, Ngāi Tūkoko, Ngāti Kahukura-awhitia and Ngāti Kaumoana. His various hapū …
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… Takamoana derived chiefly rank among Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti and Ngāti Kahungunu in Heretaunga (Hawke's Bay) through his … twice: Takamoana's father was Tinikirunga, of Rangitāne and Ngāti Kahungunu descent; he belonged to Ngāti Rangiwhakaaewa …
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… , Pākehā and Māori descent; her Māori connections were to Ngāti Māmoe and Ngāti Hinetewai. Her first marriage, to Rīwai (Rēwai) Te … Te Ao in 1906. The son of Āhitana (Manaia) Mātenga of Ngāti Kahungunu , he was connected to many hapū, including …
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… who was robbed and murdered by ex-convicts in 1843. In 1852 Ngāti Tamaterā of Hauraki gifted land at Harataunga to Ngāti Porou. The main reason was to give the East Coast … on trading voyages to Auckland. Also, the great ancestor of Ngāti Porou, Paikea, made landfall at Ahuahu (Great Mercury …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel places
… the first Te Heuheu Tūkino , and the child of Rangiaho, of Ngāti Maniapoto, was born late in the eighteenth century. … at Rotorua, Mananui repudiated Iwikau's action, but the Ngāti Tūwharetoa signatures remained on the treaty … Iwikau went to live at Pūkawa, in the territory of Ngāti Manunui, the hapū of his senior wife, Ruingārangi (or …
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… Te Houkāmau, of Ngāti Porou, was descended from Te Rangi-i-pāia I, and from … tribal wars in his youth. To resist the raids of Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou gathered into several immense pā in the Waiapu … 1853, because he considered it inappropriate that a man of Ngāti Raukawa should exercise power in Ngāti Porou …
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… surgery. Well-known gender-diverse people Carmen Rupe (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Hauā, Ngāti Heke-a-Wai) was one of 13 children in a King Country …
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Part of story: Gender diversity
… of Takaparawhau (Bastion Point) by mana whenua iwi Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, and the occupation of Ihumātao in South …
Type: Story Front
… late in the eighteenth century, was the son of Te Rātāu of Ngāti Rākaipaaka and Ngāti Kahungunu . Te Rātāu was killed and eaten in a … in Hawke's Bay. Locke planned to confront Te Hāpuku of Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti, their protector, with Whaanga at his …
Type: Biography