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… Ngāwaka Taurua was a member of Pakakohe, a hapū of Ngāti Ruanui who lived at Hukatere, south of the Pātea River … are not recorded. He also had connections with another Ngāti Ruanui hapū, Ngāti Hine, and by the mid 1840s, while … were found guilty, and sent to the Dunedin gaol in the Rangatira at the beginning of November. Taurua was imprisoned …
Type: Biography
… Cooper and Mere Morera (or Christie). Both parents were of Ngāti Kahungunu and European descent. His mother was the … of Te Apatū-o-te-rangi, an important chief of Ngāti Rakaipaaka of Ngāti Kahungunu. She was descended from the important Ngāti …
Type: Biography
… Tiopira Tāoho) and his wife, Mārara Māhuhu. Her hapū were Ngāti Rangi and Te Roroa of Te Roroa, Ngāti Pākau and Ngāi Tū of Ngāpuhi, and Ngāti Rongo of Ngāti Whātua. A descendant of famous rangatira, she was the great-granddaughter of Te Roroa …
Type: Biography
… Pāora Te Pōtangaroa was the son of Ngaehe, of Ngāti Kerei and Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti , and Wiremu Te Pōtangaroa, a leader in … Mātaikona area of Wairarapa, of Te Ika-a-Papauma, a hapū of Ngāti Kahungunu. Through his father's mother, Nau, Pāora was …
Type: Biography
… Pāora Tokoaituā, was the elder son of Temuera Tokoaituā, a Ngāti Whakaue Anglican Māori missionary, and his first wife, … of William Gray and Hīria Kokoro Tiratahi of Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe. There were no children of this marriage. In … he continued to minister to Rātana’s followers among Ngāti Tūwharetoa. Around 1931 he was transferred to the …
Type: Biography
… Pene Taka was a leader of Ngāti Rangi hapū of Ngāti Ranginui iwi at Tauranga, from the 1850s to his death … cap; he had a fine moko. After the war Pene Taka lived with Ngāti Rangi at Papawhare, on the east bank of the lower …
Type: Biography
… third child of Hāmiora Tumutara Te Tihi-o-te-whenua Pio of Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Tūwharetoa, a tohunga, writer and important informant … also known as Maria Taka or Takawhare Te Ākaurangi, of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Kahungunu. From the 1880s his …
Type: Biography
… Nuku-tai-memeha , Nukutere and Paikea For Ngāti Porou, the Nuku-tai-memeha of Māui is the foundation … of Whironui, and their descendants became the founders of Ngāti Porou. A petrified rock that stands off the beach at … south to Tūranganui. The descendants from Horouta became Ngāti Ruapani, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki and Te …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… Kurahaupō Ngāti Kurī of Muriwhenua say that Pōhurihanga was the … important for the Muriwhenua tribes of Te Rarawa and Ngāti Kahu. Tinana , captained by Tūmoana, landed at Tauroa … married Kahutianui-a-te-rangi, the founding ancestor of Ngāti Kahu. Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi ( Māhuhu ) …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… but he was principally of Te Rarawa. He was kin to the hapū Ngāti Hinerakei and Ngāi Tūmamao, but was most closely associated with Ngāti Haua hapū. On 21 November 1894 at Whāngāpē he married Maraea Wētini of Ngāti Whātua from Te Pāraki. They were to have eight …
Type: Biography
… , a physician and surgeon. He was descended from leaders of Ngāti Toa and Ngāti Mutunga and had connections with Te Āti Awa. In 1901 … for others who were on probation. As president of the Ngāti Pōneke Māori Mission Society, Mīria Pōmare was …
Type: Biography
… Te Mete Raukawa of Ngāti Hangarau, a section of Ngāti Ranginui, was born at Bethlehem, Tauranga, probably in … Auckland and Tauranga; his mother was Raukawa Mātia of Ngāti Hangarau, a woman of rank. As a supporter of the King …
Type: Biography
… married Rūhia Ngākarauna (Karauna), daughter of the local Ngāti Rangitihi chief Paerau Mokonuiārangi; she was also of Ngāti Pourua. Alfred was the second son of this union. … partly to assist his brother Joseph, who was representing Ngāti Rangitihi land claims there. He also built a public …
Type: Biography
… investors by developing Rotorua as a spa town. In 1877 Ngāti Whakaue agreed to build a spa where the city of … the town was signed by the leading elders of the kin group Ngāti Whakaue. But developers became upset as the township … Arawa later settled their own historic Treaty claims. The Ngāti Rangiwewehi settlement, dated 16 December 2012, was …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… Rauru Kītahi. Rangitīkei is divided between the tribes of Ngāti Apa and Ngāti Hauiti, the confederated hapū (sub-tribes) of Mōkai Pātea, and the Ngāti Raukawa hapū of Ngāti Parewahawaha. The region …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… Kahe Te Rau-o-te-rangi was the daughter of Te Matoha, of Ngāti Toa, and Te Hautonga, of Ngāti Mutunga and Te Āti Awa. Her birthplace is uncertain; … Taranaki, or Tutaerere, the home village of Te Rauparaha of Ngāti Toa, on the southern side of Kāwhia Harbour. Kahe was …
Type: Biography
… Iwi Settlement 15 km north-west of Whanganui, the home of Ngāti Pūkeko and Ngāti Iti, sub-tribes of Ngā Rauru. Woodall’s redoubt was … 2022 Maxwell was renamed Pākaraka, the name of the marae of Ngāti Maika, a hapū of Ngā Rauru. Nukumaru Locality 28 km …
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Part of story: Whanganui places
… the East Coast. The hapū which resides at Whāngārā is Ngāti Konohi. Local tradition recounts that Paikea arrived … of a partnership between the Department of Conservation and Ngāti Konohi. It takes in the coastal waters between … A famous rock Te Toka-a-Taiau was the southern marker of Ngāti Porou territory. It was blasted in 1877 to make way …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… explorer. The northern tribes have many stories about Kupe. Ngāti Kurī believe Kupe first saw New Zealand when he mistook Houhora mountain for a whale. Ngāti Kahu say that Te Aukānapanapa (the flashing current) … and Te Whitianganui-o-Kupe commemorate his time there. Ngāti Ruanui believe that Kupe arrived at the Pātea River …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… also as pōkeka to Te Arawa, ngākau-maemae or kiriwera to Ngāti Porou and manawawera to Ngāi Tūhoe. The divinatory … was also called whakarewarewa (Te Arawa), whakatūwaewae (Ngāti Porou) and tūtūngārahu (Waikato). Haka pōwhiri Haka … the country, the haka pōwhiri performed by the women of Ngāti Porou and Te Whānau-a-Apanui appear to have no …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori songs – waiata tawhito