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… and their singing invokes tribal pride. One such waiata is Ngāti Kahungunu’s ‘Rongomaiwahine’, which was composed by … styles. Angela Ballara and Ngatai Huata, writing about Ngāti Kahungunu composer Paraire Tomoana, noted that … were still dubious. Changing waiata Rīpeka Paiātehau of Ngāti Porou composed a unique waiata in the 19th century – a …
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Part of story: Waiata hōu – contemporary Māori songs
… the Rangitāne people and the region’s other main tribe, Ngāti Kahungunu. In 2006 Ngāti Kahungunu established a federation of hapū … in 2016, with financial redress of $32.5 million. The Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa claim was settled in 2018, with …
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Part of story: Wairarapa region
… In 1828, when Ngāti Maru of Thames destroyed Ōtamataha pā at Te Papa, … but he was almost certainly from Ngāi Tūkairangi and Ngāti Tapu, hapū of Ngāi Te Rangi, who lived respectively at … led by Hōri Kīngi Tūpaea , to Thames to make peace with Ngāti Maru. There, on Sunday 12 April, he preached to the …
Type: Biography
… born probably in the late 1830s. His main affiliation was Ngāti Rongomaiwahine , but the names of his parents are not … figure around the turn of the twentieth century among Ngāti Kahungunu in the Wairoa district, northern Hawke's …
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… first marriage. The family’s main tribal affiliations were Ngāti Hāuaroa and Ngāti Maniapoto . From his large immediate and extended …
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… Admiralty. His decision was encouraged by the local tribe, Ngāti Whātua, who expected that Pākehā settlement would … foreshore and land at Māngere. Competing claims In 2003 the Ngāti Whātua-o-Ōrākei people sought compensation for the … the independent Waitangi Tribunal agreed. A settlement with Ngāti Whātua-o-Ōrākei was finally agreed in 2011, Rush for …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… vision for the archive. In the early 1980s he sought out Ngāti Whakaue kuia Witarina Harris , star of The devil’s pit … international film retrospective. Lily Amohau, a Ngāti Whakaue kuia from Rotorua, accompanied Jonathan to the … Jonathan asked acclaimed filmmaker Merata Mita (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāi Te Rangi) to create a film using the …
Type: Biography
… in 1933. Te Wheoro succeeded Haripata Te Pō as chief of Ngāti Naho, who were closely connected to Ngāti Mahuta . He was also affiliated to Ngāti Hourua. Little is known of Te Wheoro's early life, but …
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… Te Kooti was born into Ngāti Maru, a hapū of Rongowhakaata, at Pā-o-Kahu, … it was a line of descent collateral to that of the senior Ngāti Maru chiefs. He had many wives. With his first wife, … birth of two children (or in some versions three) within Ngāti Maru, both of whom would be struck by illness. If the …
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… near Ōpiki. His mother was Rere-ō-maki , the sister of Ngāti Ruakā leader Te Ānaua . Her major tribal affiliations were Ngāti Ruakā and Ngāti Tūpoho of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, and through her …
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… Tōpia Peehi Tūroa was a chief of Ngāti Patutokotoko hapū of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi of the … challenge and responded by assembling some 1,000 Whanganui, Ngāti Pēhi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Raukawa at Pukehīnau and …
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… the first Māori to qualify in that profession. He was of Ngāti Rauhoto of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Tūhourangi of Te Arawa, with connections to Ngāti Raukawa. Harry began his education at Remuera primary …
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… probably in 1857 or 1858 at Rāhitiroa, an old settlement of Ngāti Kuri just east of Te Waiiti, in the Bay of Plenty. Her … known as Te Mīkaera Te Rika or Te Wharenui), a leader of Ngāti Kuri of Ruatāhuna and Tamakaimoana of Maungapōhatu, … of 1868–72 in the Urewera. Her mother was Tuhiwai Tāheke of Ngāti Raka of the lower Waimana valley. Pinepine had three …
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… city hotels. Raglan In February 1978, Tuaiwa (Eva) Rickard (Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Toa, Tainui, Taranaki) led a sit-in at the Raglan golf … feet by rival claimants. Some occupations, such as that by Ngāti Kauwhata at Pukekura in the late 1870s and 1880s, …
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Part of story: Public protest
… Hoani Te Heuheu Tūkino was the seventh paramount chief of Ngāti Tūwharetoa , part of a line that traced its ancestry … Te Maniapoto and Wakahuia of Taupō. His principal hapū was Ngāti Tūrumakina. Educated at St Joseph’s Convent at Waihī, … the daughter of Rangihīroa and Horina Te Moanapapaku. Of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Maru descent, she was to play an …
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… the son of Wharerau, a descendant of the ancient ancestral Ngāti Awa, the original people of the area, and of their … great mana over the land and its people. He was related to Ngāti Rēhia, and probably to Te Hikutū and Ngāti Rua. Te Pahi's principal pā was on a small island …
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… Taoka, a hapū of Ngāi Tahu , with descent lines also from Ngāti Mamoe and Waitaha. Martha’s father, Walter Bruce Joss, … in Wairarapa; his hapū was Rākaiwhakairi, a people of mixed Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Ira, Rangitāne and Ngāi Tara descent. He inherited …
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… Their mother was the daughter of Īhakara Kahuao, leader of Ngāti Rauhoto hapū of Ngāti Tūwharetoa . She also had connections to Te Arawa and Ngāti Raukawa. Harry did his primary schooling in Rotorua, …
Type: Biography
… Hāmuera Tamahau Mahupuku , prominent and wealthy leaders of Ngāti Parera and Ngāti Hikawera hapū of Ngāti Kahungunu . Maata can scarcely have known her father …
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… and the wife of Hāre Pōmare, the son of Pōmare II , of Ngāti Manu. Both Hariata and Hāre were young adults when … tour: Kihirīni Te Tūahu, of Tūhourangi; Hūria Ngāhuia, of Ngāti Whanaunga; Tākerei Ngāwaka, of Ngāti Tūwharetoa; Hāpimana Ngāpiko, of Te Āti Awa; and from …
Type: Biography