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… included Ngāpuhi and the other tribes in the far north; Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Porou on the East Coast; and Te Arawa in the Bay of …
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Part of story: Ngā pakanga ki tāwāhi – Māori and overseas wars
… John White recorded the term ‘io’ in an account of Ngāti Ruanui traditions. The manuscript includes … Kauwaeraro. In the 20th century Io was an accepted part of Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāpuhi traditions. Those who think that …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori
… for New Zealand as a whole). In East Cape, the heartland of Ngāti Porou, over 85% of residents are Māori. In 2013 the … and often lost their land to repay the debt. In East Cape, Ngāti Porou had more success in holding on to their land and …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… Hera Marokau, who were both of Te Whānau-a-Rua, a hapū of Ngāti Porou . His father served from 1863 to 1906 as …
Type: Biography
… River on 4 August 1895, the first child of Pōkiha Peni of Ngāti Pāmoana and his second wife, Ngārongo Rangitahua of … and provided much of the material for Roger Hardie’s Ngāti Pāmoana, Koriniti, Whanganui River (1975). He made …
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… Park, north of Wellington, was the site of a clash between Ngāti Toa and British troops in 1846. After a period of … to buy land, Crown forces besieged the hilltop pā of Ngāti Toa chief Te Rangihaeata for several days. Te …
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Part of story: City parks and green spaces
… Taukē, of Te Inu-ā-wai hapū of Ngā Ruahine, a section of Ngāti Ruanui , was born probably in 1810 or 1811, in …
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… (the family of light). One version told by Hāmiora Pio of Ngāti Awa is that Tangotango (blackness of the heavenly … offspring and placed them in their abodes in the sky. A Ngāti Kahungunu version of this tradition says that Kewa, …
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Part of story: Ranginui – the sky
… Tokoroa Plains on 19th-century maps. Tokoroa was a chief of Ngāti Kahupungapunga, the first tribe in the area. He was … Tokoroa. This battle was one of many that took place when Ngāti Raukawa spread into south Waikato around 1600. Tokoroa …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… them to send an abundance of fish. Mohi Ruatapu of the Ngāti Porou tribe cites this karakia, chanted to inspire … used for fishing kahawai in the Waiapu River, in the Ngāti Porou tribal district: When the net is complete, a …
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Part of story: Te hī ika – Māori fishing
… considered to be the posthumous son of Kēnana Tūmoana of Ngāti Kahungunu, who was killed fighting for Te Kooti … Aute, Pakipaki and Waimārama. Rua described the time with Ngāti Kahungunu as a period of exile, but also said that … he married 12 women. They came from Tūhoe, and from Ngāti Raka, who lived mingled with Tūhoe. With his first …
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… tribes came together. At a feast prepared by Te Waharoa of Ngāti Hauā in 1837, 20,000 dried eels and several tonnes of …
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Part of story: Te hī ika – Māori fishing
… the story recounted by Mohi Ruatapu and Hēnare Pōtae of the Ngāti Porou tribe: This is the story of Ruatepupuke, who …
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Part of story: Tangaroa – the sea
… have passed on, such as this one for Te Haupā, chief of the Ngāti Pāoa tribe: Unuhia noatia te taniwha i te rua. …
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Part of story: Taniwha
… of Paikea Te Hekeua, a prominent chief of Te Uri-o-Hau and Ngāti Whatua . His father was Karaka Eramiha Paikea, and his … Harirū Maihi, daughter of Wereti and Hōpera Maihi, also of Ngāti Whatua. Paraire was born at Ōtamatea, Kaipara, … dux in 1914. He played rugby for his school, and later for Ngāti Whatua. Paraire Paikea trained for the Methodist …
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… but he was also connected through senior lineage to Ngāti Rāhiri, Ngāi Tāwake, Ngāti Tautahi, Te Uri-o-Hua, and to most of the northern … connections: he was kin through one line of descent to Ngāti Kahungunu and Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki and was related to …
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… friendly with the Te Heuheu family, the leading family of Ngāti Tūwharetoa. In 1924 Acheson became judge of the … from alienation. He also proposed that representatives of Ngāti Whātua and the Crown should meet to resolve the matter … Māori families, and it was largely at his urging that Ngāti Tūwharetoa decided to provide most of the cast and …
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… at Waitōtara in southern Taranaki. As a youth he lived with Ngāti Pourua, a major hapū of Ngā Rauru , at Papatupu, near … Taranaki Herald journalist in 1878 that his parents were of Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Ruanui. He may also have had Ngā Rauru connections. …
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… Lewis, a European storekeeper, and Paretekōrae Poutama of Ngāti Maniapoto. He was born on 9 September 1898 at … Kūiti to discuss a rating dispute that had arisen between Ngāti Maniapoto and a local body, Pei Te Hurinui made a … , who noted with approval that some younger members of Ngāti Maniapoto were prepared to break down the conservatism …
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… in the buildings’ construction and use. Ruatepupuke Ngāti Porou traditions remember Ruatepupuke as the ancestor … These became the models for the first generation of Ngāti Porou whare whakairo. The Te Rāwheoro wānanga (school …
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Part of story: Māori architecture – whare Māori