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… the nineteenth century. He belonged to the Wairarapa hapū Ngāti Moe, and claimed an interest in Lake Wairarapa through Ngāi Tūkoko, Ngāi Tūtemiha, Ngāti Rangiākau and Ngāti Te Hangarākau, all of Ngāti Kahungunu . Te Mānihera …
Type: Biography
… the Te Āti Awa tribe of Taranaki, and more distantly with Ngāti Awa of the Bay of Plenty and the far north. All have a …
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Part of story: Te Āti Awa of Wellington
… elder of two sons of Te Rata , the fourth Māori King, of Ngāti Mahuta. His mother was Te Uranga of Ngāti Korokī and he was named for the eponymous ancestor of … Te Waharoa at Rukumoana, Morrinsville, a centre also of Ngāti Hauā. The third kingmaker, he also claimed as a …
Type: Biography
… Muriwhenua is the collective name given to six iwi (tribes): Ngāti Kurī, Ngāi Takoto, Te Pātū, Ngāti Kahu, Te Aupōuri and Te Rarawa. Te Hiku-o-te-Ika: the … Wellington, it can only go where the tail will allow. Kupe Ngāti Kurī say that Kupe, the great navigator, discovered …
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Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes
… and Te Whakatōhea through his father; he also had links to Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Porou . His paternal grandfather, Henry Colin …
Type: Biography
… names of her Rongowhakaata people added to more numerous Ngāti Maru owners. Captain W. H. Tucker assisted Riperata … meeting house at Manutūkē, which was begun by Ngāti Maru in 1880. About 1881 Riperata set about … The ridge-pole was presented by Horonuku Te Heuheu of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, and Ngāti Porou carvers aided the local …
Type: Biography
… Nearby Kōpūtauaki has a rich history. The bay was used by Ngāti Porou trading vessels as a way station between the … 60-ha tract of Māori-owned land at the summit is known as Ngāti o Moehau. Subalpine flora The highest vegetation on …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel places
… firearms. They even contemplated migrating south with Ngāti Toa to seek the protection of Te Rauparaha’s muskets … that their traditional enemies (Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngāti Awa) would try to re-assert any authority from Wairaki …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… Europeans and a black man, encountered a small party of Ngāti Tūwharetoa at the mouth of the Whanganui River. It was … the Turakina and Rangitīkei Rivers – was purchased from Ngāti Apa in May 1849. Several large tracts were held by …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… 1.9% New Zealand: 1.2% Principal tribes/sub-tribes Ngāti Whātua, Te Kawerau-a-Maki, Ngāti Pāoa, Waikato Age distribution, 2013 Under 15 …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… into New Zealand politics. In 1980 the Māori MP Matiu Rata (Ngāti Kurī, Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Whātua), who as minister of Māori Affairs was …
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Part of story: Biculturalism
… 1907, one of three children of Hato Mae Ngāmahirau, of Ngāti Whakaue , and his wife, Riripeti Te Opehōia Eparaima, … her Tūhourangi people. Her pianist, Hamuera Mitchell of Ngāti Whakaue, said that Ana Hato ‘possessed a voice of …
Type: Biography
… Hīpango was a leader of Ngāti Tumango, of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi . He is thought … Oneone. He had a sister, Tarete, who married Te Māwae of Ngāti Ruakā. Hīpango married Rāwinia Rere on 2 September …
Type: Biography
… most prominent member of this group was Apirana Ngata of Ngāti Porou, member of Parliament for the Eastern Māori … in the lakes. In 1926 a similar agreement was reached with Ngāti Tūwharetoa over its rights in Lake Taupō and adjoining …
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Part of story: Te Tiriti o Waitangi – the Treaty of Waitangi
… to the unpurchased Wairau plains. Te Rauparaha and other Ngāti Toa chiefs immediately objected that these lands had … of fruitless protest and lobbying, in early June 1843 the Ngāti Toa chiefs evicted the surveyors and burnt their …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te Tau Ihu tribes
… It is said that when the founding ancestor of Ngāti Porou, Porourangi, died in Whāngārā, on the East … and defeating Tamaiwaho. Early flight The 19th-century Ngāti Kahungunu chief, Nukupewapewa, was unable to capture …
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Part of story: Kites and manu tukutuku
… and growth of three linked iwi from the lower North Island: Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toarangatira and Te Āti Awa. But it took another …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations
… was created by Simon Burney from Fiji and Bruce Smith from Ngāti Raukawa. In the early 2000s they went from home … and video production company begun by Ian Taylor of Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāpuhi in 1990. By 2009 it employed 30 …
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Part of story: Ngā umanga – Māori business enterprise
… River, figures in the traditions of the Te Arawa and Ngāti Raukawa tribes. The dam and 84-megawatt power station … 35 km south-west of Tokoroa. The district was settled by Ngāti Kahungunu from Wairarapa after the First World War, …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… The tribe that came up with this strategy became known as Ngāti Kurī. In Hawke’s Bay, Taraia ordered his warriors to … Smoke strategy The Te Aupōuri tribe were formerly known as Ngāti Te Awa. While under siege in Makora pā, the people lit …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori warfare – Riri