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… visitors are attending from a distance. ‘E karanga ana kia Ngāti ____, kia haere mai, ki tā koutou putiputi.’ (I call on Ngāti ____ to come and collect your flower). A …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori feasts and ceremonial eating – hākari
… Awanuiarangi and Tūhoe-pōtiki became the ancestors of Ngāti Awa and Ngāi Tūhoe. Muriwai became an important … great-grandfather of Ranginui, the founding ancestor of Ngāti Ranginui in Tauranga. Te Paepae-ki-Rarotonga , under …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… 1.2% Principal tribes Te Āti Awa ki Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāi Tara Population of major urban areas, …
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Part of story: Wellington region
… 0.2% New Zealand: 1.2% Principal tribes and sub-tribes Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi Population of …
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Part of story: King Country region
… to the tale of Paikea, the Polynesian ancestor of the Ngāti Porou tribe, who arrived in New Zealand on the back of a whale. The movie was shot on location in the Ngāti Porou coastal community of Whāngārā. And many of the …
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Part of story: Creative life
… a renowned haka leader, and gave a series of lectures on Ngāti Porou cultural traditions under the title Rauru-Nui-a-Toi. Telling the stories A Ngāti Kahungunu tohunga, Moihi Te Mātorohanga, agreed in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori Studies – ngā tari Māori
… planned a township at Motukaraka on the Pāuatahanui Inlet. Ngāti Toa objected to the purchase of their land without … bear the names of his ships. Paremata and Plimmerton When Ngāti Toa people took control of the area in the 1820s, …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… Trickster Māori The large Ngāti Porou tribe, based on the east coast of the North … non-Māori. A history of the tribe records that one elderly Ngāti Porou man asked for credit at a country store so that …
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Part of story: Māori humor – te whakakata
… Residents included Niniwa Heremaia, the eldest daughter of Ngāti Kahungunu tribal leader Heremaia Tamaihotua; and Maata … language preschool). The meeting house is named after the Ngāti Kahungunu priest Tūpai, who travelled from Polynesia …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… prophets, including Arama Toiroa and Pāora Te Pōtangaroa of Ngāti Kahungunu, and Tāwhiao, the Waikato paramount chief … came into conflict with Māori of other faiths. In Ngāti Porou, for example, there was often pointed resistance …
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Part of story: Ngā hāhi – Māori and Christian denominations
… eels) for Māori, and remains a taonga (treasure) for Ngāti Pahauwera hapū (subtribe). It is also a popular … surrounded by pastoral farmland. The main hapū is Ngāti Pahauwera. The round meeting house Rongomaiwahine is a …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… Perhaps the most significant was Diggeress Te Kanawa (of Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Kinohaku), the daughter of another renowned weaver, …
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Part of story: Māori weaving and tukutuku – te raranga me te whatu
… of the Moriori, enslaved after the 1835 invasion by Ngati Mutunga and Ngati Tama. In 1863 he was replaced by Captain William …
Type: Biography
… (the sandy path of the sand maid). Te Rauparaha (a Ngāti Toa chief) led the famous migration of Ngāti Toa (Te Heke Tātaramoa) in 1822 along the beach from …
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Part of story: Beach culture
… fight on forever! Some attribute this cry to the great Ngāti Maniapoto leader Rewi Maniapoto, but there are … of the veterans of the Ōrākau battle, Hitiri Te Paerata of Ngāti Te Kohera, was invited to give an account of the …
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Part of story: Waikato tribes
… was believed that a taniwha that acted as a protector for Ngāti Tamaterā of Hauraki would take the form of a dolphin … New Zealand. Later he acted as a guardian for his people, Ngāti Whātua in Kaipara. He was seen as a tōtara log …
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Part of story: Taniwha
… main problem was keeping the peace between coastal Māori, Ngāti Ruanui and Ngā Rauru, and those of the upper Whanganui, notably Ngāti Tūwharetoa. In company with Wesleyan missionaries and … Selwyn he helped to make the peace in January 1845 when Ngāti Tūwharetoa threatened the Ngāti Ruanui pā at …
Type: Biography
… of Umutahi, who belonged to Te Whanau-a-Tarahauiti of Ngāti Porou , and David Bristow, a whaler and coastal trader. As the eldest grandchild of Ngāti Porou leader Mōkena Kōhere and his wife, Mārara Hinekukurangi, Rēweti had affiliations with Ngāti Piritai of Te Whānau-a-Tūwhakairiora and Ngāi …
Type: Biography
… public discourse. Minette Hillyer has written about Ngāti Whakaue actress Maata Horomona , who took Māori … about her father, Tā Hugh Kawharu , a prominent leader of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei in central Auckland, who steered the … has written about museum professional Mina McKenzie (Ngāti Hauiti, Ngāti Raukawa, Te Ati Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, …
Type: Basic page
… Tākitimu canoe and its people helped form the identity of Ngāti Kahungunu. The Tākitimu arrived from Hawaiki, …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu