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… songs and war dances. In 1971 the group renamed itself Ngati Ranana Maori Club (Rānana is the Māori transliteration … from many different Māori tribes, and dubbed themselves Ko Ngati Hiona (the tribe of Zion). In 2003 the Utah-based New …
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Part of story: Māori overseas
… many artists. Rotorua town In 1881, after an agreement with Ngāti Whakaue to lease land between the Māori settlements of … Rotorua was sold to the government. Tongariro National Park Ngāti Tūwharetoa gifted the summits of Tongariro, Ngāuruhoe …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… people’s heritage. In the 1870s and 1880s Paora Tūhaere of Ngāti Whātua facilitated the safekeeping, at Auckland … collecting and displaying taonga. Eruini Taipari and his Ngāti Maru iwi loaned the whare whakairo (carved house) …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… as a strategic plan to revitalise the Māori language in Ngāti Raukawa, Te Āti Awa and Ngāti Toarangatira. At the time these iwi had no speakers of …
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Part of story: Te reo Māori – the Māori language
… slogan ‘No Maoris, no tour’. Anglican bishop Wiremu Panapa (Ngāti Ruanui, Te Rarawa) led a petition for equality between … Māori input. The tour went ahead, with Sid Going (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine) and Bryan Williams (Samoan) participating as …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū tautohetohe – Māori protest movements
… Hōne Tāhu and Tāmati Ngākaho. Auckland Museum purchased the Ngāti Pikiao wharenui Rangitihi in 1906. The Ngāti Awa wharenui Mataatua, presented to the government in …
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Part of story: Museums
… Sydney-born Irishman Joseph Carroll and his wife, Tapuke, a Ngāti Kahungunu woman of high rank, through whom the family … and served as president in 1949–50. With other members of Ngāti Kahungunu and Tūhoe he signed an agreement with the …
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… On 28 April 1864 Te Whakatōhea, in concert with some Ngāti Porou and other East Coast tribes, had tried to join … disregarded this instruction. At Whakatāne he demanded that Ngāti Awa hand over to him a Catholic priest. They did not … pursued the matter of a government pardon for Mokomoko; Ngāti Awa also made a request for all those imprisoned in …
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… of Te Whānau-ā-Hinerupe and other closely related hapū of Ngāti Porou. John probably had no formal education. His … their recruitment rates before encouraging more 'Nāti' (Ngāti Porou of Waiapu) to go to war. Among the many … for example, he depicted the female ancestor Wairaka, in Ngāti Awa tradition the saviour of the Mātaatua canoe, with …
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… sites throughout the North and South islands. In the 1820s Ngāti Kuia, under the chief Tūtepourangi, were displaced by Ngāti Koata, led by Te Putu. A patu (club) of Tūtepourangi’s, in Ngāti Koata possession, is a link between the two groups. …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… to impede the flow of arms and men of Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngāti Ranginui to the Waikato. Upon hearing that British …
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Part of story: New Zealand Wars
… district and Lake Taupō are from the Te Arawa waka; and the Ngāti Kahungunu tribes between the Wairarapa and the south …
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Part of story: Tribal organisation
… and other beings can also take the role of kaitiaki. The Ngāti Raukawa elder Tāmati Ranapiri explains: Manu taupunga …
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Part of story: Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation
… the grandfather of Kahungunu, the founding ancestor of the Ngāti Kahungunu people. Rongokako was said to be able to …
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Part of story: Papatūānuku – the land
… the land with the gods of their mythology.) When Ngāti Māmoe and Ngāi Tahu later intermarried with Waitaha, …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… park. In 1887 Horonuku Te Heuheu, paramount chief of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, signed a deed with the Crown to safeguard …
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Part of story: National parks
… torches were used. Nets The kōrapa was a net used by the Ngāti Porou tribe. It was a hoop net on a straight handle, …
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Part of story: Te hopu tuna – eeling
… his wife Mereana Holloway, with whakapapa connections to Ngāti Kurī, Te Aupōuri and Ngāti Whātua. Rata described his childhood as happy but … to an end, Rata moved into important leadership roles for Ngāti Kurī and the people of the Far North. He soon became …
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… mother was Tiahuia, daughter of Tāwhiao Te Wherowhero of Ngāti Mahuta , the second Māori King, and his senior wife, … Searancke , an English surveyor, and Hāriata Rangitaupa of Ngāti Ngāwaero hapū of Ngāti Maniapoto. Te Puea was thus born into the kāhui ariki, …
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… his grandfather, Rātana Ngāhina, he was connected to Ngāti Apa, Ngā Wairiki, Ngā Rauru and Ngāti Hine. The family also had connections with Ngāti Ruanui, Taranaki and Ngāti Raukawa, but in official …
Type: Biography