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… probably Mana. Kāpiti is renowned as the stronghold of the Ngāti Toa tribe during the 1820s and 1830s, when the great … whalers and missionaries – often called at these islands. Ngāti Toa encouraged Europeans, and repeatedly sold parts of … After the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, most Ngāti Toa left Kāpiti and Mana to live on the mainland. …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… Ani (later baptised Katerena), daughter of Te Moanaroa of Ngāti Tahinga. According to one family tradition, the … a Pākehā resident among them. The couple settled with Ngāti Tahinga at Waikorea, between Whaingaroa and the mouth … back on his Scottish heritage and merged into the life of Ngāti Tahinga, among whom he died at Te Horea on 10 April …
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… the site of the old athenaeum. Māori heritage There are 75 Ngāti Kahungunu and 11 Rangitāne marae in Hawke’s Bay. … in 1938 as a memorial to Sir James Carroll, a distinguished Ngāti Kahungunu politician. Ōtātara pā in Taradale, which … is one of the most important pā sites in New Zealand. Ngāti Paarau hapū of Waiohiki are kaitiaki (guardians) of …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… the sub-tribes Hāwea and Rapuwai, was assimilated into Ngāti Māmoe – newcomers from the north – through warfare and … the early 1800s the Ngāi Tahu tribe gradually incorporated Ngāti Māmoe. The first Europeans The British vessel … north. Warriors from Murihiku were involved in resisting Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha’s invasion of the upper South …
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Part of story: Southland region
… 1.2% Principal tribes and sub-tribes Rangitāne ki Wairau, Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō, Ngāti Koata, Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Rārua, Ngāi Tahu …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… 1878. His father, Arapata Meha, a prominent member of Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Ruatōtara of Rangitāne, was a successful sheepfarmer … appeasement, Meha was recognised, along with three other rangatira within the church, as a special ‘Nephite’ missionary …
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… late 1820s. He belonged to Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare hapū of Ngāti Porou . His father was Te Pōtaeaute, also known as … of support for the King movement: he tried to dissuade Ngāti Porou from going to Waikato to join the King's forces. … Mārire (Hauhau) religion reached the East Coast in 1865. Ngāti Porou divided into factions, and fighting began with …
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… In later years he was particularly associated with Ngāti Tuera hapū, kin to Ngāti Rangatahi. Many of the details of his life are … his mother was Peti Te Oiroa, also known as Peti Tetua, of Ngāti Pāmoana. Pukehika was a relative of Hōri Kīngi Te …
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… from the senior lines of descent of the leading hapū of Ngāti Porou, which included Te Aitanga-a-Mate, Te … Te Whānau-a-Mahaki, Te Whānau-a-Iritekura and Ngāti Rangi. After attending Akuaku, Hiruhārama and Tūpāroa … elders had already matched her with John Marshall Reedy of Ngāti Porou, and they were married on 19 May 1903 at …
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… to take up land they believed they had purchased from the Ngāti Toa tribe in the Wairau Valley, Marlborough. Ngāti Toa disputed the deal, and resisted the takeover. In a … successor) to punish the tribe. But FitzRoy thought Ngāti Toa had been provoked, and refused to do so. End of …
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Part of story: Wellington region
… Patuone was the eldest son of Tapua, leader and tohunga of Ngāti Hao of Hokianga, and the elder brother of Nene . … Patuone was related to many neighbouring hapū, including Ngāti Pou of Whangaroa, and Te Roroa of Hokianga and … taking captives, Tūwhare of Te Roroa and Te Rauparaha of Ngāti Toa shared the military leadership. On the return …
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… Mōhakatino River. Tama-ariki is the ancestor from whom the Ngāti Tama people take their name. Rākeiora was deified … of this canoe and that it was wrecked at Māhia Peninsula. Ngāti Apa of the Rangitīkei River agree that the canoe was … on the northern side of the Pātea River, where they became Ngāti Ruanui. The descendants of Turi’s son, Tūranga-i-mua, …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… Muaūpoko people continued to live there alongside hapū of Ngāti Raukawa. Communities clustered at that time on the … in 1906. The Māori presence is evident in the Muaūpoko and Ngāti Raukawa meeting houses: at Kōputaroa , Muhunoa, Kuku, … of conflict between the Muaūpoko tribe on the one hand and Ngāti Raukawa and Ngāti Toa on the other. Ornithologist …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua places
… 18 km east of Inglewood. Tarata is important to the Ngāti Maru iwi. In a loop of the Waitara River opposite the … and taken by a musket-armed war party of Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Toa. A few kilometres upriver is the site of Kawau … and Tītokowaru took refuge after the Taranaki wars. Ngāti Maru’s Tarata marae, Te Ūpoko-o-te-whenua, is near the …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… first wife, Aromea, was born about 1820. She belonged to Ngāti Moe at Papawai, in Wairarapa, a hapū of Rangitāne and of Ngāti Kahungunu in Wairarapa. Her parents and her … and many of his people were massacred by a group of Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga and Te Āti Awa on the Wharehanga …
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… to emerge in Māori communities. Led by Apirana Ngata of Ngāti Porou and later Te Puea Hērangi of Waikato, this was … Paraire Tomoana Born in the mid-1870s, Paraire Tomoana of Ngāti Whatuiāpiti and Ngāti Kahungunu was a pioneer composer of songs in the new …
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Part of story: Māori composers – ngā kaitito waiata
… (out of some 512 signatures). The daughter of Te Pēhi, a Ngāti Toa rangatira, was not allowed to sign, as it was … Land Court process. Sometimes, like Mākereti Hinewai of Ngāti Kaputuhi, they acted as the principal witness for … such as Meri Mangakāhia of Te Rarawa, Niniwa-i-te-rangi of Ngāti Kahungunu, Takarea Te Heuheu of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and …
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Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… which affected both ‘rebel’ and ‘loyalist’ Māori. No Ngāti Porou land was confiscated, but the Native Land Court, … were more than four Pākehā to every Māori in Poverty Bay. Ngāti Porou, under the leadership of Rāpata Wahawaha, sold or leased only back-country land. From the 1880s Ngāti Porou engaged in sheep farming on their own account. …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… Raureka’s packet Ngāti Wairangi people were the first to occupy the Poutini … resource. Poutini Ngāi Tahu Over time the Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Wairangi tribes came into conflict over the stone. A … ultimately Ngāi Tahu wrested control of the resource from Ngāti Wairangi. This West Coast section of Ngāi Tahu became …
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Part of story: Pounamu – jade or greenstone
… Te Whānau-a-Rākairoa and Te Aitanga-a-Mate hapū of Ngāti Porou , and had links to Ngāti Rongomaiwahine and Ngāti Rākaipaaka of Nūhaka and Māhia, and Rongowhakaata and …
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